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Old 03-01-2021, 11:53 AM
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Hey everyone I'm new to the camaros I had traded my pickup off for a 1998 sport gold couple camaro with the 3.8.When I first got the car it would run for 5 or so minutes and then backfire and die I have put a new crank sensor,cam sensor,coils,plugs,Mass airflow,throttle position sensor and idle air control valve and now all it does is back fire and very rarely run but I have zero throttle response and backfires consistently threw the exhaust and already checked vats any help would work thank you
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Have you changed the ignition module? I remember that being an issue on my series II 3.8L many years ago, I went through a couple of them over the years I owned that car, and had very similar issues as you've described above.
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Have you changed the ignition module? I remember that being an issue on my series II 3.8L many years ago, I went through a couple of them over the years I owned that car, and had very similar issues as you've described above.
not yet will try that next
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not yet will try that next
was also wondering what the easiest way to change the icm on my 3.8 camaro would be
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Doing a parts shotgun with sensors and random parts, especially non OEM stuff will get expensive fast.

Are you pulling any codes? How does it run in open loop?
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Did you do the case learn after crank sensor change?



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