| T-Pat | Aug 15, 2007 12:34 PM |
Can't figure out whats wrong....
Before I tell you the problem, let me give you a lil background on this car...
I have a '01 Camaro SS that I bought from a dealership that had been repo'ed. It now has 105k miles on it. I haven't taken the engine out yet or anything but I'm almost positive nothing has been done internally. Externally its all stock except for a pair of long tube headers that merge into a single exhaust pipe all the way to the muffler. The car never ran perfect since the moment I bought it. At first the check engine light would stay on, it would get about 13-14 mpg, and if I put the pedal to the floor or just gagged on it in town, you could hear the engine detinate a lil bit before the car would take off, and a puff of black smoke would come out of the tail pipes, leading me to think it was running rich. The engine would also sputter goin down the highway. If I unplugged the MAF it would run a little better, so i just left it unplugged. I found that the O2 sensor on the driver sider was melted to the headers so i bought a whole new O2 sensor with wiring harness and ran it completely away from the headers so that is no longer a problem. That seemed to take my car from running a 54% fuel on the drivers side bank back down to 1%. So that fixed my fuel mileage and the sputtering at high speeds. I also bought a MAF replacement and that seems to be workin well also. After doing all this my check engine light went off for a couple days but not it is back on, but it still runs ok. And if I still get mash it to the floor you can still hear it detinate a lil before it takes off. There are no more codes showin up on the computer and I can't find anything else that could be wrong with it. Any suggestions? | 