Heading to work this morning and slowed right down for some tracks and the guy behind me wasn't paying attention and was going to hit me, so I gunned it. Got up to the lights and turned then the car started bucking and wouldn't hold idle very well so I had to keep my foot on the gas a bit. I was able to drive it home barely.
I noticed alot of black smoke coming out behind me and when I sat in the driveway alot of black soot formed up at the exhaust exits on the driveway.
I've recently replaced the stock fuel pump with a 255lph pump, fuel filter, I resealed all my IC tubes and changed out all the pullies except the SC's for aluminum ones. From doing searches the following possible things could have happened.
- The fuel pressure regulator failed
- One of the IC's tubes blew their seal (to me that would cause a very lean condition not rich though)
- HB went (stock).
- Headgaskets went (done 2 years ago)
- PCV valve became disconnected.
I have no CEL light.
I'll be checking the above, but any other suggestions to track this problem down would be appreciated. The car has been running beautifully except a few weeks ago when all the symptons of a failed cam sensor showed up, but after cleaning everything up and reseating the DIS with fresh heat sink gel the problem went away. BTW The tach is still working.
Anyways.
Idea's?
I noticed alot of black smoke coming out behind me and when I sat in the driveway alot of black soot formed up at the exhaust exits on the driveway.
I've recently replaced the stock fuel pump with a 255lph pump, fuel filter, I resealed all my IC tubes and changed out all the pullies except the SC's for aluminum ones. From doing searches the following possible things could have happened.
- The fuel pressure regulator failed
- One of the IC's tubes blew their seal (to me that would cause a very lean condition not rich though)
- HB went (stock).
- Headgaskets went (done 2 years ago)
- PCV valve became disconnected.
I have no CEL light.
I'll be checking the above, but any other suggestions to track this problem down would be appreciated. The car has been running beautifully except a few weeks ago when all the symptons of a failed cam sensor showed up, but after cleaning everything up and reseating the DIS with fresh heat sink gel the problem went away. BTW The tach is still working.
Anyways.
Idea's?
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