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Old 04-08-2007, 01:00 PM
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I have a 94 lt1 formula, and recently I will hear a repeditive popping noise at 4k rpm and above. it also seems to fall on its face a little, but it dosent always "pop". it will only do this under load.
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Might be detonation.
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Sounds like it's time to replace the opti. How many miles do you have on it?
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the car has 160000 miles on it, i am going to try and replace the plug wires first, a long time mechanic rode with me and said it was more like cross firing and not pinging or detonation.
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Well if that still has the stock opti on it, I'm surprised it lasted that long. The wires won't help gurantee, you need to replace that opti.
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if i do need to replace the opti, are they all created equal? stock gm replacement or msd or accel or jegs? how will i know thats the problem and not something else like maybe the coil or plugs?




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