I have had it with my car!

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02-23-2006, 12:40 AM

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RE: I have had it with my car!

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I know you said yours seems OK now, but I had a "safemode" issue on the Dyno a few weeks ago. Turned out the plugs were very fouled apparently from me trying to force something to happen when it went into safe mode. I felt the same power loss after my tuner checked the tune and got the computer issues dialed in. The car very gradually got worse and worse until I could barely drive it. Dealer check and all was good....but pulled plugs and changed them and now I'm back on top of the world. A side note..mine was during a Dyno run to see HP #'s after a pulley install also. I never completed a good run so I have no idea what it does. I was at 258 at 4100 rpm before safe mode dropped me off.

I also encountered this problem on two seperate occasions (car hitting failsafe at WOT) and both times it turned out to be the plugs also. Each time, a couple of the plugs (different ones each time) were fouled and I couldn't figure out what was causing them to foul so quickly. After the last incident, we gapped the factory plugs (old fashioned way with a hammer and spike on a vise) and the problem was instantly corrected. I forgot the reason adam gave me but he knew what it was and fixed it very quickly by gapping them.