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Old Aug 7, 2007 | 11:58 AM
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So, My car, as you can tell by the title, is stumbleing off idle. It feels like it has a miss in, but only at idle. Its like if I sit for a minute and then attempt to go, the car will sound like it wants to stall for about 15 ft and then pick up like nothing happened. I have checked the plug wires and I have cleaned the MAF. I got new o2 sensors as well, just havent had a chance to put them in. What do you guys think that the problem could be. Also, my muffler was recently damaged, cannot tell from what, but I feel that it may be a blow-out situation. Could the car running to rich (from either the tune or the o2's) be the cause of this situation. I dont think the muffler itself could be the cause, its a clean whole and the exhaust is clearly escaping from it. I order a new magnaflow system last night from lpe. I also order the cable I need to upload my own tune and I will be updating my mail order tune when the cable arrives. As of right now I have a PCMforLess tune. Once the car is moving, it drives as though things were normally, and still has enough get up to put a Mustang away. What would you guys do?

Car is a 95 z28 auto also. All bolton car. Full exhaust. Thanks,

Matt
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Old Aug 7, 2007 | 12:46 PM
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No ideas?
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Old Aug 7, 2007 | 01:58 PM
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Put those new O2s in it. Mine was acting like that a while back and new o2s cleared it right up.
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Old Aug 7, 2007 | 07:23 PM
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Figured it out today. Turns out the wire off the coil was arching and burnt / broke pretty bad. Cut it off and put new ends on it and it works fine. Threw the o2's on just for fun. Problem solved with the coil though.
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Mine likes to stumble as well, real irritating with an m6. I didn't notice the wire from the coil looking funny at all, but I'll be doing plugs and wires soon anyways. Any other reasons that anyone can think of?
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