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Old 02-28-18, 07:09 PM
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Car idling weird... any ideas?
Idle is jumping between 1200-1500, I revved it up to 3k and the engine died out. Car sometime starts without my foot on the gas but sometimes I’ll have to pump the throttle while cranking for it to start. Any ideas?
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s\does it sound like a cammed v8 also? start out with a compression check
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Originally Posted by lduley
s\does it sound like a cammed v8 also? start out with a compression check
it did when it was idling at lower rpms... but it is also headers only rn. Now it’s idling higher and smoother than it was
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Vacuum leak.
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Vacuum leak.
Found a big leak under the plastic intake elbow where 2 hose go, 1 was hooked up the other was not
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