Car has no power and shakes
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Car has no power and shakes
Just got done with my pacesetter install and as far as I know there are no leaks. However, in driving the car home it has absolutely no power, especially in the midrange and it starts to shake. It does not accelerate very smooth. Does the computer need to readjust or do I have some other kind of problem going on?
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Ya, I thought I checked them all pretty well, but I will do it again after the car cools. Is this behavior common after LTs are installed.
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Originally Posted by WhitePheonix
there are only 4 O2's right?
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Car has never driven fine since I have installed the headers, when its parked and I rev it it's fine. But when it's under load it bogs, sometimes bucks, and is just down on power in general. Im also throwing codes as well.
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Looks like MORE performance may be recieving a call tomorrow, unfortunately the is my only car and I don't have the time to screw around with it on the side.
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Havent had a chance to have them read yet, so Im not sure. I will give MORE a call tomorrow, then maybe go to autozone and have the codes read.
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I'm going with the plug/ plug wires. When my brother installed his last month his was doing the exact same thing. I looked in the bay and saw the plug wire not fully plugged in. You have to push it kinda hard for that second click.
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I vote for the O2s. Check codes. Especially if as you say at initial idle /start up it seems fine- Meaning the O2s are not online yet and you are still in the open loop fuel tuning. I have had these symptoms /situation before and it was one of the "front," O2s- they do the fuel- Short of having a code reader at your disposal wait until the car is cool and swap the front sensors to the back-one side at a time
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Well, car did not make it to work today, stalled three times before I decided to take it home. Made an appointment with MORE Performance on friday. My rear O2's have simms, Maybe the front two are exposed. This may be a stupid question, but what am I looking for.