Rough engine - Part deux!
04-18-03, 12:21 PM
#1
Rough engine - Part deux!
Refer to this thread:
https://www.rx7club.com/forum/showth...hreadid=173971
It's been getting worse.
Yesterday I took it for a ride. As I was pulling out in the intersection, I floored it - it's just how I drive, because my car is slow as ***** anyway, so no one can tell I'm flooring it.
As soon as I put my pedal to the metal, my car starts jerking like crazy. My tach is shooting from 1k to 4k and going all around, and my speed has dropped to about 10mph, and I'm flooring it. My car is jerking back and forth violently. I'm positive it wasn't my clutch work - I've been driving it a long time, and I know the difference, heh. I'm stuck in the middle of this intersection, my car almost dead in the middle, and then I let off the gas and my car lets off the loudest backfire / gunshot ever. It seriously sounded like a fifty caliber sniper rifle was shot out of my car, amplified by 10x sound.
This happens about 5 more times the rest of the night. Also, now my speedometer needle jitters back and forth VERY quickly. It stays 'constant' in that it points to more or less one speed, but it's visibly jittering.
Anyways, how long until this junker dies? Anything I can do to make it go quicker?
https://www.rx7club.com/forum/showth...hreadid=173971
It's been getting worse.
Yesterday I took it for a ride. As I was pulling out in the intersection, I floored it - it's just how I drive, because my car is slow as ***** anyway, so no one can tell I'm flooring it.
As soon as I put my pedal to the metal, my car starts jerking like crazy. My tach is shooting from 1k to 4k and going all around, and my speed has dropped to about 10mph, and I'm flooring it. My car is jerking back and forth violently. I'm positive it wasn't my clutch work - I've been driving it a long time, and I know the difference, heh. I'm stuck in the middle of this intersection, my car almost dead in the middle, and then I let off the gas and my car lets off the loudest backfire / gunshot ever. It seriously sounded like a fifty caliber sniper rifle was shot out of my car, amplified by 10x sound.
This happens about 5 more times the rest of the night. Also, now my speedometer needle jitters back and forth VERY quickly. It stays 'constant' in that it points to more or less one speed, but it's visibly jittering.
Anyways, how long until this junker dies? Anything I can do to make it go quicker?
04-18-03, 12:24 PM
#2
Oh yeah, I think emissions testing is soon. 
Also, if I didn't floor it, the problem didn't happen. If I SLOWLY let it go to 3k, then shift, repeat, etc, it wouldn't happen (Trying to emulate how my dad drives). He refuses to acknowledge something is wrong, because it never happens when he's in the car (Referring to how he drives above).
I also forgot: Half the time when you go to start the car now (Ok, more than half.. 3/4), you have to spend multiple tries trying to start it. When you turn the ignition, nothing happens except this extremely loud grinding noise. Like when you grind gears, except louder and higher frequency. He says there's nothing that can be done, just deal with it.
He also hasn't changed any fluids in the car in over a year. He really loves his car...
Also, if I didn't floor it, the problem didn't happen. If I SLOWLY let it go to 3k, then shift, repeat, etc, it wouldn't happen (Trying to emulate how my dad drives). He refuses to acknowledge something is wrong, because it never happens when he's in the car (Referring to how he drives above).
I also forgot: Half the time when you go to start the car now (Ok, more than half.. 3/4), you have to spend multiple tries trying to start it. When you turn the ignition, nothing happens except this extremely loud grinding noise. Like when you grind gears, except louder and higher frequency. He says there's nothing that can be done, just deal with it.
He also hasn't changed any fluids in the car in over a year. He really loves his car...
Last edited by Wompa164; 04-18-03 at 12:31 PM.
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