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Old Jan 6, 2007 | 08:24 PM
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I'm not sure whats going on, but my stang is acting weird. I recently had stage 3 cams installed, along with all the other bolt ons and full exhaust with a 3000 stall torque converter. The car ran like a beast for a month, but now it seems to be slow all of a sudden, like I'm haulin a mack truck hooked to my rear bumper. No check engine light. I'm wondering if a cylinder is not firing or something, cuz the shop who did the cams forgot to plug in the coil on the 1rst cylinder drivers side. I drove around for a week on 7 cylinders before I figured it out and plugged the coil back in. Car ran great afterward but as i said, has run with less power since yesterdaySo has dumping fuel into a nonfunctioning cylinder for 500 milesfouled a plug or sumthing? My tune shop said that should not cause problems unless I have driven a few thousand miles with a non-functioning cylinder. Any thoughts on what I should do? If that shop effed up my car by forgeting to plug that coil in I'm gonna be pissed.
Old Jan 6, 2007 | 08:56 PM
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I would take it back to the shop. Didn't you get some type of warranty?
Old Jan 6, 2007 | 09:25 PM
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Going to agree if nothing else just tell them how it's running and ask them to take a look if something is wrong you don't want to drive with it longer and make it worse.
Old Jan 6, 2007 | 11:04 PM
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Well, strange but I took the car out todayto see if this was some kind of anomaly, and the car is running like a beast again. Tool a stopwatch with me and I got a 0-40 mph of 2.3 seconds and a 0-60 of 4.4. I can't explain this.
Old Jan 7, 2007 | 12:24 AM
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Now when you had the cams done you had them put in new spriings as well.. correct..??
Old Jan 7, 2007 | 01:19 AM
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Yes I had the springs changed as well. Like I said, the car is back to its beastly form today. I have no idea what yesterday's sluggishness was all about




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