I just had to catch my car in gear a second time in two days to start it. I'm at work now, but when I go home, I'm gonna need ideas of what to look for, so here's my symptoms and I'll see if anyone can help out.

Low vac at idle
Definately getting spark
can't hear fuel popping sound when cranking
lack of bottom end
only happens on warm-starts

I have my stock BOV open-vented, a homemade TID and K&N. The BOV didn't alter how it was running before with it plumbed into the TID, so I don't think it's that. Plus I plugged that while my buddy cranked. I thought the car was flooding and I ran Fuel injector cleaner through it last night. I used about 1/4 tank, so some of it should've worked through by now. Anyways, I'm gonna go check my fuel pressure (hopefully) and see what that comes up with, then change my spark plugs even though I'm almost POSITIVE it's getting spark. any other ideas to look into?

 

umm stock bov open vent? do you have some sort of check valve on it? the stock bov cant be open vented really. if your car runs at all your getting fuel.

 

the stock BOV was run to a check valve a while ago and it still did alot of the same things. It did start, but it was just as sluggish when it did as it is now when it starts, so I didn't think that was it. I'll put the Check Valve on it again before I try to start it to go home and see what happens.

 

a better idea would be to run it back into your intake. the stock bov was never really meant to be open vented. i have seen one person succesfully open vent his bov, but i would generaly advise against running it this way. its a good item to upgrade anyway, i think they only hold about 9psi of boost. after that they leak it out.

 

I wanted to plumb it back in, but I might get an aftermarket valve. This is the second or third time someone has mentioned the BOV causing problems for me, but I still don't know if I buy into it. I plugged it so there was no leak and the car still wouldn't start. Only thing I can think is that it needs to blow a little, but the stock BOV is letting it blow a little too much. Who knows, I'll see what ican do

 

i got open exhaust and intake on my car and am making 13 or so psi. when i put on my blitz BOV, it ran a whole lot better