KAG
09-06-2008, 11:14 PM
(shortened for relevance)
Yesterday morning, I did an oil change at my friends shop 20 min. away. I went with Royal Purple 5w-30 and a mobil 1 filter. The car drove home excellent, and felt the same way it did before the oil change.
When I got home, I wanted to check up on the rest of the engine to make sure everything was intact. The one thing I noticed that didn't look right was that the bottom of the intake box that holds the air filter (K&N) was about 3-4mm away from the bottom of of the box that's connected to the throttle body.
I pulled off the intake and saw that the tabs on the bottom weren't in the slots on the (throttle body) box.
For the week prior to this, I had the snorkus removed. I realized it didn't do much of anything, so I put it back on when I put the intake back on.
I started the car up. This time, instead of the rpms starting at 1500 and coming down to around 750, it dropped immediately to 750.
I backed up a few feet, very slowly. When I let off the gas and put my foot on the brakes, the car bogged down almost to 100 rpms, and I could feel it struggling. It took no more than two seconds to get it back up to a smooth idle again.
Took it for a test run around the block to see if anything would happen. It actually felt like it accelerated better than it did before, believe it or not. Right before I pulled into my driveway, the car stalled on me. The gauges lit up and I felt the power steering go away. I had the clutch in for about 2 seconds before it stalled.
Started it back up...it gave a VERY rough idle. I barely made it into my driveway before it stalled again.
Now, it still starts up and idles fine. I can rev it in place, it still sounds healthy. Once I move it, either in 1st or reverse, it goes down to near 100 rpm again where it feels like it stalls, then it goes back up.
No check engine light or anything.
My car is 100% stock, and has always ran flawlessly. Always starts immediately, always accelerates perfectly, and always idles smooth...until now.
Please give me some input on what I did wrong and what I should do to fix it.
Thanks!
Yesterday morning, I did an oil change at my friends shop 20 min. away. I went with Royal Purple 5w-30 and a mobil 1 filter. The car drove home excellent, and felt the same way it did before the oil change.
When I got home, I wanted to check up on the rest of the engine to make sure everything was intact. The one thing I noticed that didn't look right was that the bottom of the intake box that holds the air filter (K&N) was about 3-4mm away from the bottom of of the box that's connected to the throttle body.
I pulled off the intake and saw that the tabs on the bottom weren't in the slots on the (throttle body) box.
For the week prior to this, I had the snorkus removed. I realized it didn't do much of anything, so I put it back on when I put the intake back on.
I started the car up. This time, instead of the rpms starting at 1500 and coming down to around 750, it dropped immediately to 750.
I backed up a few feet, very slowly. When I let off the gas and put my foot on the brakes, the car bogged down almost to 100 rpms, and I could feel it struggling. It took no more than two seconds to get it back up to a smooth idle again.
Took it for a test run around the block to see if anything would happen. It actually felt like it accelerated better than it did before, believe it or not. Right before I pulled into my driveway, the car stalled on me. The gauges lit up and I felt the power steering go away. I had the clutch in for about 2 seconds before it stalled.
Started it back up...it gave a VERY rough idle. I barely made it into my driveway before it stalled again.
Now, it still starts up and idles fine. I can rev it in place, it still sounds healthy. Once I move it, either in 1st or reverse, it goes down to near 100 rpm again where it feels like it stalls, then it goes back up.
No check engine light or anything.
My car is 100% stock, and has always ran flawlessly. Always starts immediately, always accelerates perfectly, and always idles smooth...until now.
Please give me some input on what I did wrong and what I should do to fix it.
Thanks!