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Thread: Sputtering issue...

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    Default Sputtering issue...

    This is sort of long:

    OK, so I install my greddy upper and lower intercooler pipes as well as the ebay intake that I bought. I already had the greddy type S BOV on. I install the upper pipe as well as the intake and take it for a ride. I didnt really notice any seat of the pants differance, but the car drove fine. Go back home and start on the lower pipe. With that installed, I take it out for another spin. Immediatly i notice that it pulls harder, but as i get to the end of the street and open it up more I hear all this air like a hose blew and the car ceases to accelerate smoothly, or really accelerate at all. I figure that i just blew off a pipe like Lee did at the dyno day, but i get back and everything is still on and tight. The car idles perfectly, but has trouble boosting "i assume". I come home from work today, take off the lower and replace it with the stocker again, since that it was after that part that it had problems. I take it out and it pulls like a stock car again... for a few pulls. I notice that the turbo creeped past 15 psi this time and its starts idling badly and running genuinely poor. I take it home put it back to stock, with the exception of the intake and it still idles like shit. We leave it running and it just naturally smoothes out. I drive it and it still stumbles, but the idle is smooth again. We put back my intake(I had tom's on to test if it was my maf and it wasnt), start it back up and its running bad again. The only difference between our intakes is that he jb welded the filter adapter to the MAF, so i decided to put some RTV on mine to see if it was a vacuum leak. ANY THOUGHTS????

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    are you venting?

    did you leak test?

    did you adjust youre bov spring pressure?

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    I am not venting

    I did NOT do a leak test

    I adjusted the BOV spring pressure and now it has the stock BOV back on... still no dice

    aside from the intake, the car is completly bone stock. It did blow out what looked to be water out of the tail pipe while it was running bad. After that it seemed like that was when it idled right again. I am thinking it is a fuel issue of some sort.

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    could be fuel. most people shoot fuel out the back when they run rich. but i've never seen that on a stock car with just intake and stuff. do the leak test and see what you find.
    i'll be working on my car pretty much the rest of the day if you want to swing by and i'll take a look at it.

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    I work all day today, but I am off tomorrow. BTW I officially hate my car now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by allthatisman
    BTW I officially hate my car now.
    Thats why your shit aint running right. Stick your dick in the tail pipe and make ammends.

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    sounds like a boost leak to me.....do a leak test.

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    BTW I officially hate my car now
    oh quit being such a dildo... cars come with issues.. its just what happens when you mod anything.. when you fix the problem and get things on youll be like ok i love my car again 8)

    Stick your dk in the tail pipe and make ammends.
    man is that your remedy for everything??

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    seems to work out for me

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    Stick your dk in the tail pipe and make ammends

    man is that your remedy for everything??
    don't you know? It's the new way to feel boost! :)

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