toothpicsk8

ok this morning i woke up got ready for school started the car everythign went smooth all the way to school. get out of school i realise i left the key on 1 knotch (my key falls out) but its started right up. it had just rained and it was alil chilly out so i let the car warm up alil till i got some heat. left school got to the stop light green go i went didnt even beat on the engine 2nd gear i felt extreeme loss of power!! so i pulled over it was idling at like 250, i tried turnign the car off and on but still low rpm but i eneded up driving it home anyways (probly not good) horably slow flooring it it was like a snail in first gear. now i got home from work after not driving it for awhile i got in and it started right up purring like brand new. umm is it screwing with me and if so whats wrong. btw its a 87 n/a with a recent engine swap from a 146,000 mile engine to a 120,000 mile engine. the car sat 2 years befor i bought it and it sat around 4-5 months after. ples tell me what could be wrong or what hopefully isnt wrong( spex seals )thanks

toothpicsk8

come to think of it this mornign on the way to school my horn didnt work and my lights dim and stuff when i step on the brake, i have no radio or anythign that stays on or takes up juice.

amishboy

have you checked you grounds I think the most important one is behind the engine going up to the firewall a little prong connecting to a tang loosen them and clean and put back on

toothpicsk8

i cant do anythign till saterday so whatever is here on saterday i will try but that is a good ideawhich side is it located on is and isits on the lowere or upper part of the engine i think i know what ur talkign about but im not sure

toothpicsk8

could it even be acting up cuz of rain moisture of some sort shorign soemthign out? ill look for any exposed wires too and tape them up or somethign. i have one more question there seems to be a smoke or some sort of burning smeelling smoke coming from the cat, what could that be?

amishboy

ya it's easy to see in the middle ,it comes up high on the firewall and you should be able to rent a compression tester or buy one for about 25 dollars from autozone and check your compression it wouldn't be a bad idea to check it could save you from messing up a housing and rotor

toothpicsk8

yah i talked to a guy i know with a s5 and he recomended a compression test, wow only 25 bucks thats not so bad. how much do u think a basic rebuild is? incase i have to do that kind of thing

amishboy

about 800 if you do it yourself and thats the kit from atkins or maybe 830 something like that

toothpicsk8

that isnt so bad just gonna take me a while to save up for that, thanks for ur help ill check back tomarrow and saterday to see any new posts of suggestions, i really hope its ok because i got it registered yesterday and i was soooo excited about it i love this car then today it starts crapping out makign me completly bummed.

amishboy

http://www.atkinsrotary.com/store/cu...6&cat=0&page=1
here is a link I think I might get this one i'm doing my first one right now just waiting on some more money

toothpicsk8

ok ive come to a conclusion its not electrical , and that it may be vacume or fuel injectors. cus at idling it idles really low i bring it up around 3 grand maybe 3,500 and it seem the other rotar is workign or its gettign sufficiant fuel. and it revs normal it has alot of response but below that it has none at all. and i just found a huge coolant leak at the heater core connection. which injectors are for idle secondary or primary. and which injectors are ontop of fuel rail and which injectors are under the intake manifold?because i wanna clean the ones that make the car idle and if there under the intake manifold its gonna take longer than i want but it will get done.