Car sputters when punched from an idle!!!!

Spork · Post by **Spork** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 6:15 pm

how "torn apart" was it? did you take the motor apart at all? timing belt? distributor? etc...

Drowzysleeper · Post by **Drowzysleeper** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 6:30 pm

does it idle fine while stopped sounds kinda like a vacuum line kinda

forcefed · Post by **forcefed** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 6:32 pm

naw it just had the tranny out of it, didnt touch the motor at all, just for this reason i like to be able to check if what i do is gona work before i go further,haha

forcefed · Post by **forcefed** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 6:37 pm

Drowzysleeper;170686 wrote:does it idle fine while stopped sounds kinda like a vacuum line kinda

yeah it idles fine,i have looked for vacuum leaks and found non, i have my boost gauge hooked up just bc but it shows that im getting vacuum like 30 or so

16vshelbyz · Post by **16vshelbyz** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 7:18 pm

holy crap 30 inches of vacuum at idle?!? Wow I thought I was doing good at 22 wow

forcefed · Post by **forcefed** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 7:42 pm

thats about where its stays till u give it gas

forcefed · Post by **forcefed** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 9:20 pm

just went out and started it and its throwing a code,flashed it as a one single long light. i know it has a bad o2 heater but if its a 10 then it could be the intake air temp sensor

turbosupra_92 · Post by **turbosupra_92** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 4:47 pm

hey my ek did something like that and i pulled the dizzy cap off and cleand up the prongs and it stop you might want to try that they get caroted when they set for a while...

forcefed · Post by **forcefed** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 12:37 am

turbosupra_92;190185 wrote:hey my ek did something like that and i pulled the dizzy cap off and cleand up the prongs and it stop you might want to try that they get caroted when they set for a while...

sorry bro i meant to say i fixed it. it had msd wires on it and one of the ends had came off and u couldnt tell. well when u would put a load on it it would miss and shit. but its fixed with a nice new set of ngk wires