Originally Posted by throne7

One other thing that is absolute amiss is that there seems to be some minor exhaust leak coming up the engine compartment close to the firewall on the driver side. It smells like exhaust and not gasoline.

Also there are lots of black smoke out the tail pipe. I had the car parked in a new spot and have the engine running and the ground below where the muffler exhaust output is just scorch black where it was clean cement before. OK I will go grab a camera for a photo now.