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Old 06-26-2014, 08:35 PM
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Like the title says, I have a 2000 Z28 and as soon as it starts to rain it acts like somebody turned 2 holes of. It comes in and out most of the time. I did check the main ecu plug and it was dry. Any thoughts?
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Mine does the same thing. Just started doing it this year.
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All I have to add is that my Camaro, as far as I know, doesn't ever miss when it rains. To be quite honest, I always figured my Camaro -- like all of them -- hated when it rains.
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its the optispark! lol, sorry feeling nostalgic. In all seriousness take a spray bottle and mist the wires while its running. if it starts to miss, its a simple matter of swapping the wires out. they are probably old and starting to crack.
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I pulled the computer and sat it on the inner fender today so I could get to everything good. I wet everything with a hose but could never really hear it start missing until I was done and went to drive it back into the carport. Its still missing like hell!
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my wires are 3 years old , less the 40,000 kms.
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Mine has new plugs and wire. I'm gonna take my MSD harness out soon just to eliminate that. I've been wanting to get to the track for a couple of months but I can't fix this POS. I just went from stock to H/C/I exhaust, converter, and a tune. The day after I got it home from the tune I took it to the car wash and this crap started happening.



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