DriftingThunder
Registered User
Okay so yesterday morning I wake up early to wash my car and afterwards I head out to take care of some stuff. From the moment I start it up and leave the house it's running badly. It sounds mostly healthy except a very consistant miss on one of the cylinders. It's slow as hell too, like slower than an n/a V6. In fact later that night I decided to see how slow it was and got beat in a short sprint by a car length by a friend's stock 3000GT SL, that's right no turbos...
So I decided to check spark first. I would unplug a wire from the coil pack and drive enough to see if it ran any worse. I did that with all 6 cylinders' wires and was hoping one of them wouldn't change the way the car ran. In case that's confusing; if I pulled a wire and the car ran just as good and not any worse, that would mean that that cylinder isn't getting any or enough spark right? Anyways, all 6 disconnections made it run worse so spark is not the issue I do not think. I haven't actually looked at the plugs yet though.
I just went out and thought about checking codes but there's no check engine light so the EEC won't throw any codes anyways. Instead I just bought some injector cleaner and hopefully that should clear it up but if not I am more or less clueless as to what I should do. Any help would be appreciated. TIA!
So I decided to check spark first. I would unplug a wire from the coil pack and drive enough to see if it ran any worse. I did that with all 6 cylinders' wires and was hoping one of them wouldn't change the way the car ran. In case that's confusing; if I pulled a wire and the car ran just as good and not any worse, that would mean that that cylinder isn't getting any or enough spark right? Anyways, all 6 disconnections made it run worse so spark is not the issue I do not think. I haven't actually looked at the plugs yet though.
I just went out and thought about checking codes but there's no check engine light so the EEC won't throw any codes anyways. Instead I just bought some injector cleaner and hopefully that should clear it up but if not I am more or less clueless as to what I should do. Any help would be appreciated. TIA!