I got my newly rebuilt engine running,, and started driving it around a little.. Well I was driving to my Girlfriends house to give her a ride to work, and I noticed everytime I hit a bump, the engine would bog down.. Like from 2.5k when I hit a bump it would drop to like 1k then bump right back up to 2.5k.. Causing the car to jerk a little.. Well when I got to my GF's house I noticed that the POS battery terminal was CRACKED, Piece of crap.. so I made sure it was relatively tight to get me back home to replace it.. Well I dropped off my girlfriend at work and headed home.. and it was getting worse and worse.. until it would barely drive so I pulled over and it died on me.. I could get it started but it would BARELY run and it would be reallly rough... And it would barely rev at all... Definately not enough power to move the car... I was ,fortunately , right by a autoparts store WOOT so I purchased new battery terminal and went back out and installed it... No difference.. I checked for any electical problems.. none visible.. I even replaced a shady spark plug wire I had and no dice..

Well I am going to go ou now and do some more work on it.. but I'm thinking perhaps a primary fuel injector wire came loose and everytime it bumped it didn't squirt fuel in? I hope that's it! but in the meantime keep any ideas coming my way =) Thanks a lot guys...

 

sounds like it

 

Hmm... maybe a bad ground somewhere? Any vacuum leaks? Coil on the fritz?

Just throwing around some ideas...

- JB

 

Thanks all... Good news.. it was the fuel injector line...!!! WOOT now it's running.. and compression in my other rotor is going up... (bought new rotor housing.. seals re-seating.. ) idling nicely at 750.. and I have oil pressure WOOT! (last time front cover o ring slipped out and LOW O pressure!)

I am very happy and going to go surprise my GF today.. hopefully no repeats of what happened the other day =)

Thanks all