sizemoremk
Registered User
Hey guys, I'm pulling my hair out...
After installing my nitrous system, which required me to remove and tap the fan nozzle in my lower IC tube; she started acting funny. I pulled out of the driveway, and realized that since I may pop the motor playing with the nitrous, I should take my cell phone... She was running perfectly smooth and such until I turned around a block away to get the cell phone, I thought I had a flat tire for a second, it started limping a bit, and running rough... No check engine light...
It then had a rough idle, only gets worse with more throttle. There was also a slight rattle in the super charger. I have noticed this before with a vaccumm leak and it went away when I found the leak in that instance.
I sprayed ether (engine starting fluid) all around IC tubes, and vacumm lines (I also had to tie into the FPR for the N2O) and I could not find a problem. I unplugged the MAF, and no change, then I used my spare MAF, no change. I checked the line going from the intake tube to the breather on the driver side... still connected. Sprayed some more ether all around. Let it cool off with the battery disconnected for two hours, checked the plug wires, as I had been messing aroud in the engine bay...
Fired her up again, and still the same... Then I unplugged each plug wire from the coil pack and verified there was spark on every wire. I also wanted to see if it was in limp home mode, so I checked the exhaut fumes, and couldn't really tell anything, I read that there was supose to be really rich as limp home mode fires on 4 cylinders... I checked the balancer pulley and it didn't seem to be wobling... I gave it some throttle a time or two, and then it died. Tried to restart it, and hard to turn over, couldn't start it witha couple of tries, and for no particular reason, I checked the tail pipes again, and I noticed lint, which kinda looked like the lint in the clothes drier fiter scattered around the rear of the vehicle... I looked in the tailpipes, and there seemd to be a little fuzz around the inside of the pipes....
Is there something that would cause this fuzz, or could I have left a rag in the IC tubes??? I used a few to cover the SC top and IC and everything whie they were opened. I removed the IC tubes agian, and couldn't find any traces of lint or pieces of rags or anyhting... Nothing in the IC itself... Is it possible that one could be lodged in the intake? Is it possible that pieces of it were ripped up and got sucked into the intake? I never got into the boost, and unfortunatley never go to hit the nitrous...
thanks guys!
Any input would be greatly apppreciated!
After installing my nitrous system, which required me to remove and tap the fan nozzle in my lower IC tube; she started acting funny. I pulled out of the driveway, and realized that since I may pop the motor playing with the nitrous, I should take my cell phone... She was running perfectly smooth and such until I turned around a block away to get the cell phone, I thought I had a flat tire for a second, it started limping a bit, and running rough... No check engine light...
It then had a rough idle, only gets worse with more throttle. There was also a slight rattle in the super charger. I have noticed this before with a vaccumm leak and it went away when I found the leak in that instance.
I sprayed ether (engine starting fluid) all around IC tubes, and vacumm lines (I also had to tie into the FPR for the N2O) and I could not find a problem. I unplugged the MAF, and no change, then I used my spare MAF, no change. I checked the line going from the intake tube to the breather on the driver side... still connected. Sprayed some more ether all around. Let it cool off with the battery disconnected for two hours, checked the plug wires, as I had been messing aroud in the engine bay...
Fired her up again, and still the same... Then I unplugged each plug wire from the coil pack and verified there was spark on every wire. I also wanted to see if it was in limp home mode, so I checked the exhaut fumes, and couldn't really tell anything, I read that there was supose to be really rich as limp home mode fires on 4 cylinders... I checked the balancer pulley and it didn't seem to be wobling... I gave it some throttle a time or two, and then it died. Tried to restart it, and hard to turn over, couldn't start it witha couple of tries, and for no particular reason, I checked the tail pipes again, and I noticed lint, which kinda looked like the lint in the clothes drier fiter scattered around the rear of the vehicle... I looked in the tailpipes, and there seemd to be a little fuzz around the inside of the pipes....
Is there something that would cause this fuzz, or could I have left a rag in the IC tubes??? I used a few to cover the SC top and IC and everything whie they were opened. I removed the IC tubes agian, and couldn't find any traces of lint or pieces of rags or anyhting... Nothing in the IC itself... Is it possible that one could be lodged in the intake? Is it possible that pieces of it were ripped up and got sucked into the intake? I never got into the boost, and unfortunatley never go to hit the nitrous...
thanks guys!
Any input would be greatly apppreciated!
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