I bought this car a few days ago with the intent of making it my daily driver. Im excited about the project. It was a bit of a perilous 70 mile drive back home owing to what i assumed was an exhaust leak. I mean, i suppose it is as the previous owner pulled the cat out. Im not sure if the ECU needed any kind of update for that. I plan to put one in as i dont really want this car to be much more than a whisper loud. Anyway. Ive started going through it to chase things down. Pulled off the IACV and found half of one of the gaskets remaining and a bit of blue silicone in its place. I feel like that couldn't have helped. You guys got any thoughts on what else to look for? It struggles to idle when warm though it starts up strong. Running it down the highway is and adventure because the acceleration isnt there. You apply the gas and it bogs down till you kinda find a happy spot in the throttle. Then it kinda maintains. I had to downshift to keep RPMs up when going at an incline, and relied on down hill runs to accelerate much at all. At any range of RPMs, it was still tempermental. Going to that sweet spot in the throttle to maintain. If you gave it gas, it would cough, sputter, beller and snort till you backed off to that position that it found unobjectionable. So crawling up an incline at 60 mph on a highway in D3 at 4000 rpm was similar to going a lil north of 70 in D4 at a decline at about 3000 rpm. Starting from a dead stop was a chore. Shifted all the way down into 1st and coaxing forward motion was kinda like begging a kiss off an angry spouse... It felt awfully uncertain.
Thanks for your insight and help.
Sincerely,
brock
Thanks for your insight and help.
Sincerely,
brock
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