Car loading up on bottom end

stevesLX

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Nov 12, 2006
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Why is my car loading up on the bottom end? If I am following cars in traffic and just holding staedy at low RPMs say either in 2nd or 3rd gear and I get a little bit of a clearing to speed up as soon as I go to accelerate the car acts like it loaded up and then you will get a backfire or 2 that is coming from up in the headers somewhere and it will take off. Now I have noticed that while cruising down the HYWY every once in a while at a lower speed(55-60 MPH) in 5th gear it will start to give a slight buck back and forth and a pop from the exhaust sounds like its up in the headers when it pops. But like I said its mostly while driving super slow and being behind traffic. If I just tromp the pedal it runs great. New plugs, wires, TFI is good, cap and rotor look fine, new O2's, I eliminated my coil with another one and it still did this. I pulled more timing also with no changes. I am running 14 initial and 40 PSI fuel. I tried pulling some more fuel out of it last night and it still did the same thing no matter how much fuel I pulled. I tried swapping out my mass air with a Pro M and that didn't change nothing either. I have checked for vacum leaks cant seem to find any. I also changed my TPS that did nothing either. I have checked for codes and other than the typical EGR codes that I have always got with this car because all that stuff has been removed their are no other codes. This is a brand new motor I just put in 2 weeks ago. I didn't have this issue with my old motor. The changes that were made were 306, GT-40Y heads, and Trick Flow street heat upper and lower. Everything else stayed the same. My old motor was a 302 with GT40P's and a Edelbrock performer upper and lower. Check my sig for what my new combo is.
 
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Well here's the latest news on this thing. I have swapped out computers with a buddy, changed MAF's,new pick up coil, differn't TFI module, new cap and rotor, new O2 sensors, new wires, new plugs, differn't coil, pulled codes, vacum test and nothing has changed at all. Something I did notice is the car runs great when you first start it up and drive it. This popping thru the intake and lugging doesn't start until you drive for about a mile or two. And then it starts doing it and even then its only at certain low RPM's and not all the time. But it happens more than it doesn't. Its like as soon as the car starts to initially warm up. The only thing I have yet to do is a compression test which I intend to do tonight. I would certainly hope I don't have a bad valve seat or a valve sticking on brand new heads out of the box. I have been thinking about it and the car was running half way decent before it started doing this and I replaced the O2 sensors and it went away for the most part and then it suddenly reappeared a week or so later. I got no O2 sensor codes when I pulled codes. So after the compression test tonight if all my cylinders come back pretty close to one another I will be at a loss for whats causing this. I guess I will start Ohming out every single pin on the computer harness and looking for continuity issues.
 
Hey "steveslx" i was watching you youtube video, was those runs with the gt40p setup and why did your car go from running 111 to 105 in the last videos ? also my car has a wierd part throttle cruise problem !