On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 08:47 -0500, Dave Mcneely wrote:
> ---- Ian Allan <ian.allan@BMTS.COM> wrote:
> > > A really hot engine smells REALLY hot.
>
> How does one smell heat?  Are you talking about things starting to boil
>  off or vaporize that can be detected by olfaction?  Yep, I'd say
>  that's too hot.  mcneely

In my experience, an overheated engine smells bakey. I attribute it to
oil and other schmutz on the engine that normally just sits there at
normal operating temperature and just makes the engine look grungy,
vaporizing.

-- RJS