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Old Apr 4, 2005 | 06:01 PM
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Unfortunately my car's troubles were not tuning related as I hoped, but were ignition related, like I thought.... Chuck at HPE was able to confirm this for me, so now im off to replace the new opti, I so hope its the problem, because im gettin angry! lol.
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Old Apr 4, 2005 | 06:42 PM
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Sucks man, good luck with everything and keep us posted! You'll get it sooner or later, don't give up. And it'll feel great to have the car runnin good again.

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Old Apr 4, 2005 | 07:16 PM
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Dang yer having all kinds of trouble. Hope you get it figured out.
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Old Apr 4, 2005 | 08:18 PM
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bet it did the same thing mine did and that was the rotor coming unscrewed and loosing all ign fire. mine was on the dyno as well at Ed Wrights.

when you put the new opti i would suggest pulling the carp off and lock tighting the rotor screws in place
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Old Apr 4, 2005 | 10:20 PM
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BTW 4thgen, youll love that F2 kit, its pretty nice, too bad I cant use mine untill im sure shes running right! lol
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Old Apr 5, 2005 | 02:18 PM
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I HATE AUTOZONE! Thats opti #2 from them, going to get #3 from oreilly, went from a car that didnt run right at higher RPMs and full throttle, to a car that doesnt run!!!!!!!
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Old Apr 5, 2005 | 11:00 PM
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.... i heard a lot of people have problems with opti's from autoparts stores..... When i replaced mine about 6 months ago, i went with a GM genuine, and still running strong....
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Old Apr 6, 2005 | 01:29 PM
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wow! Yes! Opti #3.... This week.. (bringing the grand total up to 5 ive had on the car) is a working unit!! the car finally runs again, how well it runs? ill have to find out.... Friggen remanufactured pieces of junk... If this one give me ****, im switching to a dynaspark.. The next motor I build will be an MSD Pro Billet front drive, with crank trigger setup, and accel DFI from Joe O.
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take it on the feeder and see how "well" the car is running....
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that wont be too easy, Ive got open headers, cant find where the heck my dad put my mufflers! Ill just run it at HMP on friday.. I would LOVE to get a 7.1x out of it N/A (1/8th mile) I wont be using the nitrous though because I left the bottle in the car, it overheated, and burst the safety disc..new a new disc and a full bottle.
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