Hey guys. As you all know since the intake install it seemed like my car has had a VERY bad vacuum leak. It would idle fine, but around town when I hit the clutch idle would surge, or would stay at 1500. backfire above 3k and didnt want to rev very high. Didnt have power brakes alot of the time or only had half poewr brakes. The timing was adjusted to 14*. Didnt fix any problems. I moved around some vacuum lines today. Lets start at the vauum connector behind the passenger side strut tower. The fpr and the black line that goes to the intake were connected into one hose whitch went to the intake. Car ran like mentioned before. So today, I realised that the other black hose that goes to the smog pump isnt connected. I dont have smog pump but I wasent sure what it was for, so i put the fpr vacuum on the intake by itself, then i took the two small black hsoes and connected them to one hose whitch went to the extra spot in the vacuum tree. Car ran alright this morning, only backfired once but for the first time I could rev up to 5500 no problem, and I had full power brakes. leaving for school in the afternoon the car was rough again no power brakes, popping, and backfired once, and it had that feeling again of no spark or no fuel like the car just completley lost all power and feel on its face. But after that took it on the main rode lit up the tires 1st through 3rd and shifted at 5500 no problem. But after that the car chugged and bogged the rest of the way home.
The car ALWAYS boggs, in ANY gear, at ANY rpm, at ANY speed, it always bogs HORRIBLY as if you were going 20mph in 5th gear and trying to accelerate. The only time it dosent bog is when you are accelerating at about half throttle and up. Once you floor it the car revs up beautifull to 5700 no problem and keeps pulling harder then it ever did without the intake, past 3k it does pop alittle but not too loud and no backfiring. But still chuggs home.
And also something that scared me was leaving my work iin the parking lot i turned the wheel all the way, and the wheel locked! with the car on, the wheel locked! luckly i was bearly moving and i hit the brakes but if i was going 50mph and the wheel locked i wouldnt be here right now.
Oh and when I started it up at work, the idle was WAYYYY rough, like it would idle at 1k and then every 5 seconds it would surge up to 2000 then slowly go back down. And also when i unplug the iac the car boggs down like its about to stall and sometimes does, is that normal?
Im not sure what to do, My ACT sensor was completley broken off so I replaced that today, i adjusted the timing, fixed all the vacuum lines. I sprayed carb cleaner on all the vacuum lines, in between the intakes, the only thing that happened was where the pcv hose connects to the intake when i sprayed it, the car revved up alot, so i tightened the clamp as much as i could and it was fine. Any help? Im out of ideas. I wish I could afford a $30 code scanner but since friday ive spent 420 bucks on this intake swap and I am clean out of money, so throwing parts at the car is not an option. I have a voltmeter but I dont know how to pull the codes with it.
PLEASE HELP!
Do you guys think its possible that instead of plugging the smog plastic line I plug the intake plastic line? Would it cause that much problems? I tried everything that I thought would fix it and it runs better then it did when it started but it still runs bad. Im not sure what pinging sounds like but people said if you have it youll know it, I dont notice anything sounding different so I guess its not pinging? And I think its running rich, when i get out of the car the fumes are HORRIBLE and smells really bad. Ill try checking the fuel pressure tomorrow. Could this be that the injectors werent pushed in all the way? Im 95% sure they were put in right but idk, again bringing up maybe the dizzy is a tooth off? And one thing I am highly suspecting is that we didnt torque down the intake to sequence or use a torque wrench, would it cause these problems? i heard it would run lean but im running rich.
The car ALWAYS boggs, in ANY gear, at ANY rpm, at ANY speed, it always bogs HORRIBLY as if you were going 20mph in 5th gear and trying to accelerate. The only time it dosent bog is when you are accelerating at about half throttle and up. Once you floor it the car revs up beautifull to 5700 no problem and keeps pulling harder then it ever did without the intake, past 3k it does pop alittle but not too loud and no backfiring. But still chuggs home.
And also something that scared me was leaving my work iin the parking lot i turned the wheel all the way, and the wheel locked! with the car on, the wheel locked! luckly i was bearly moving and i hit the brakes but if i was going 50mph and the wheel locked i wouldnt be here right now.
Oh and when I started it up at work, the idle was WAYYYY rough, like it would idle at 1k and then every 5 seconds it would surge up to 2000 then slowly go back down. And also when i unplug the iac the car boggs down like its about to stall and sometimes does, is that normal?
Im not sure what to do, My ACT sensor was completley broken off so I replaced that today, i adjusted the timing, fixed all the vacuum lines. I sprayed carb cleaner on all the vacuum lines, in between the intakes, the only thing that happened was where the pcv hose connects to the intake when i sprayed it, the car revved up alot, so i tightened the clamp as much as i could and it was fine. Any help? Im out of ideas. I wish I could afford a $30 code scanner but since friday ive spent 420 bucks on this intake swap and I am clean out of money, so throwing parts at the car is not an option. I have a voltmeter but I dont know how to pull the codes with it.
PLEASE HELP!
Do you guys think its possible that instead of plugging the smog plastic line I plug the intake plastic line? Would it cause that much problems? I tried everything that I thought would fix it and it runs better then it did when it started but it still runs bad. Im not sure what pinging sounds like but people said if you have it youll know it, I dont notice anything sounding different so I guess its not pinging? And I think its running rich, when i get out of the car the fumes are HORRIBLE and smells really bad. Ill try checking the fuel pressure tomorrow. Could this be that the injectors werent pushed in all the way? Im 95% sure they were put in right but idk, again bringing up maybe the dizzy is a tooth off? And one thing I am highly suspecting is that we didnt torque down the intake to sequence or use a torque wrench, would it cause these problems? i heard it would run lean but im running rich.
