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Old 08-06-08, 12:47 PM
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Unhappy lack of power?

i have a SAFC installed in my car and it has been running fine up til this morning.
when i keep the throttle easy it runs great accelerates all the way through the rpms but when i give it full throttle around 3k-4k it "jumps" seems like a huge loss of power or something and then does it again 4k-5k if i stay heavy on the throttle and so on. what could the problem be? bad secondarys? bad tps?
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someone help please?
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Originally Posted by Jalm
i have a SAFC installed in my car and it has been running fine up til this morning.
when i keep the throttle easy it runs great accelerates all the way through the rpms but when i give it full throttle around 3k-4k it "jumps" seems like a huge loss of power or something and then does it again 4k-5k if i stay heavy on the throttle and so on. what could the problem be? bad secondarys? bad tps?


i dont have an rx7 but i do have a boosted subaru. Could be a boost leak. Or you could have clogged fuel injectors, or you could be boosting so much that you dont have the fuel to support it.
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I would say check your grounds, although they wouldn't be the cause of the hesitation at 5K.........
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its a street ported NA, could the problem b it is running too rich?
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its a street ported NA, could the problem b it is running too rich?
Don't think so or you'd be bogging down all the way up. Do you know what your set at on your SAFC at those RPMs?
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well its like once it picks up the throttle it get really bogged i leaned it out alittle bit on the safc and it helped alot im getting alittle bump around 3500k but it picks right back up
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DO you know for sure that your grounds are good? This sounds a lot like the 3800 hesitation. Search that phrase and you'll see. I actually had it a bit, but got rid of it after running another wire from the tranny to the firewall.
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grounds are all good i checked them all. i dont think its the 3800rpm hesitation because it sorta bucks at like 4k and seems like it fixes it self then bucks again around 4.5-5k and so on, and this all happens at WOT, if i lay low on the throttle it goes through the rpms fine. not sure if its my secondary injectors but id like to get it figured out
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5-6th port actuators could be sticking. could only be one and it will cause i big loss in power. trust me i know. they open at 3800 with the secondaries
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