Hey guys and gals,
I got a serious problem with the way my car is driving right now. But just to give a little insight here is what I did last week.
I replaced my engine mounts with Solid Rubbers, my trans mount with Solid rubber and my differential bushings with the poly ones. I've yet to get the trans x-member out to replace those bushings, and I was intending to do it today and tommarow.
During the install, I dropped the driver's side downpipe enough to wiggle the mount out. When I went to drop the passenger's side, I broke one of the exhaust manifold studs on the collector. I decided to leave the other bolt alone and now the down pipe is partially attached. At first I didn't hear any noise, but over the next day or so, it got a "chugging" sound to it. Again, I didn't stress or nothing, it was just a little more noise.
On my way back home on sunday, about 40 miles into my trip, I experienced a serious drop in engine power. Right now, my engine feels like it has about as much HP as a briggs+stratton lawnmower engine. Trying to climb hills on the taconic was scary. Try climbing a hill in 1st gear, gas pedal floored and going 15mph!
Associated with the drop in power was an intermittant "check engine light", and the noise of rushing air coming from the passenger side of the engine. It was loud enough to definatly hear in the cockpit and I almost thought for a second it was the climate control. There was also a huge stink of raw exhaust, but no black smoke.
The engine idles at about 15" Hg when it normally idles around 19-20" Hg. The more I press the accelorator pedel, the less power it seems to give. Some times if I back off the gas a little bit and it isn't in boost mode, it'll give me more power, but not much. Max boost on the gauge is about 8psi but then again I really can't get the RPMs much over 2000.
I've driven the car with out the supercharger belt on before, but this feels like I don't have the belt on and I pulled 4 spark plug wires too!!!
I'm going to get some carb/throttle body cleaner and spray it around the area that I hear the air rushing and see if that makes a difference. Can a slight exhaust leak at the collector on the passenger side on a 1995 5-speed cause this kind of problem? I noticed that I have my EGR pipe on that side and perhaps it's not getting enough exahust pressure causing the computer to open the EGR valve up too much and perhaps my EGR froze open?
The reason I ask, is I had a Turbo LeBaron do this to me and it caused alot of bucking and kicking and a moderate drop in power. I took it in and they plugged up the vacuum connector to the Faulty EGR and the car ran like a charm!
I don't suspect this of being an ignition problem, but who knows! Could it be a fuel pressure regulator?
Anyone who can help me, please do! I can't have my wings clipped this close to Carlisle. Aww Hell, I'm crazy enough to drive down 6 hours like this just to see my SCCOA buds! When Were down there, I'll bring my tools and we can fix it there!
I got a serious problem with the way my car is driving right now. But just to give a little insight here is what I did last week.
I replaced my engine mounts with Solid Rubbers, my trans mount with Solid rubber and my differential bushings with the poly ones. I've yet to get the trans x-member out to replace those bushings, and I was intending to do it today and tommarow.
During the install, I dropped the driver's side downpipe enough to wiggle the mount out. When I went to drop the passenger's side, I broke one of the exhaust manifold studs on the collector. I decided to leave the other bolt alone and now the down pipe is partially attached. At first I didn't hear any noise, but over the next day or so, it got a "chugging" sound to it. Again, I didn't stress or nothing, it was just a little more noise.
On my way back home on sunday, about 40 miles into my trip, I experienced a serious drop in engine power. Right now, my engine feels like it has about as much HP as a briggs+stratton lawnmower engine. Trying to climb hills on the taconic was scary. Try climbing a hill in 1st gear, gas pedal floored and going 15mph!
Associated with the drop in power was an intermittant "check engine light", and the noise of rushing air coming from the passenger side of the engine. It was loud enough to definatly hear in the cockpit and I almost thought for a second it was the climate control. There was also a huge stink of raw exhaust, but no black smoke.
The engine idles at about 15" Hg when it normally idles around 19-20" Hg. The more I press the accelorator pedel, the less power it seems to give. Some times if I back off the gas a little bit and it isn't in boost mode, it'll give me more power, but not much. Max boost on the gauge is about 8psi but then again I really can't get the RPMs much over 2000.
I've driven the car with out the supercharger belt on before, but this feels like I don't have the belt on and I pulled 4 spark plug wires too!!!
I'm going to get some carb/throttle body cleaner and spray it around the area that I hear the air rushing and see if that makes a difference. Can a slight exhaust leak at the collector on the passenger side on a 1995 5-speed cause this kind of problem? I noticed that I have my EGR pipe on that side and perhaps it's not getting enough exahust pressure causing the computer to open the EGR valve up too much and perhaps my EGR froze open?
The reason I ask, is I had a Turbo LeBaron do this to me and it caused alot of bucking and kicking and a moderate drop in power. I took it in and they plugged up the vacuum connector to the Faulty EGR and the car ran like a charm!
I don't suspect this of being an ignition problem, but who knows! Could it be a fuel pressure regulator?
Anyone who can help me, please do! I can't have my wings clipped this close to Carlisle. Aww Hell, I'm crazy enough to drive down 6 hours like this just to see my SCCOA buds! When Were down there, I'll bring my tools and we can fix it there!