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So on top of all our snow melting, we have had an absolute monsoon today. Rain rain rain rain all day long. The last time it got like this I had a bunch of corrosion form in my distributor cap. Well I was out with my girl today doing some running around and noticed the engine was missing here and there, nothing serious. Eventually it got to where if you applied too much pedal in 5th it would pretty much die, and then worse and worse to where you had to pretty much idle it to get anywhere, any gas pedal would kill the engine.
On my way back I bypassed going home and headed straight to napa uptown where I originally got the cap and rotor back in May/June. On my way up there the car stalled a few times at an intersection out here in the country, started getting it going and BOOOOOOOOM HUGE backfire twice, blew the muffler apart. Dangit my quiet festiva now sounds like an angry swarm of bees and the guy in the truck behind me prolly crapped himself.
It turns out I had the cheapy cap/rotor and not the nice echlin (much MUCH better part) that I thought I had. I paid the difference on the parts and swapped them out in the parking lot in the middle of the monsoon (read: SOAKED).
Now the car runs and isnt missing but has absolutely NO power and sounds like crap. I cant even hold 55 in 4th. Not even enough power to do that. It also idles at like 300 rpms maybe, REALLY low. Like it wants to die. It also smells awful like theres just tons of unburnt fuel coming out the exhaust. But no smoke.
Any ideas? I think Ill start by taking the muffler out, maybe its plugged up now or something. Ill probably pull plugs too. Make sure they aint all fouled out.
On my way back I bypassed going home and headed straight to napa uptown where I originally got the cap and rotor back in May/June. On my way up there the car stalled a few times at an intersection out here in the country, started getting it going and BOOOOOOOOM HUGE backfire twice, blew the muffler apart. Dangit my quiet festiva now sounds like an angry swarm of bees and the guy in the truck behind me prolly crapped himself.
It turns out I had the cheapy cap/rotor and not the nice echlin (much MUCH better part) that I thought I had. I paid the difference on the parts and swapped them out in the parking lot in the middle of the monsoon (read: SOAKED).
Now the car runs and isnt missing but has absolutely NO power and sounds like crap. I cant even hold 55 in 4th. Not even enough power to do that. It also idles at like 300 rpms maybe, REALLY low. Like it wants to die. It also smells awful like theres just tons of unburnt fuel coming out the exhaust. But no smoke.
Any ideas? I think Ill start by taking the muffler out, maybe its plugged up now or something. Ill probably pull plugs too. Make sure they aint all fouled out.
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