Well, today took the FD out of storage to clean the cob webbs out of it. Got after it a little bit, but realy kept it under 6k rpms. Put maybe 30 miles on it. Came home parked it in my garage until it would be cooler out. That way I could wash it in comfort (And get my wife to help. ) and not worry about water spotting so much. Well anyways, started it up, and I noticed it kinda started a little hard. I thought that was funny, but payed no real attention to it. Pulled it out of the garage, and I noticed it ideling pretty rough, only around 500 or so rpms.....then looked down on the boost gauge. My hart sank...only like -10 hg (?) on my autometer boost gauge. Shut the car off, and did a vacuum line inspection. All seemed to be good. So I figured tomorow, I'll do a compression test. What I'm guessing is a cracked apex seal or something. O well, I've long thought the motor was getting tired. I just did'nt want it to break before I was ready to go with single/new pineapple motor. Anyways, here's the pictures I promised.

 

that sucks...

looks nice though

 

Forum seems to be having problems right now....I'll upload the rest later or something.

 

My car nonseq.

 

very clean engine bay man. I like it

 

Not a big fan of the fog lights but that's a clean engine bay!

 

rpm's should be at about 750-850 rpms, try upping the rmps and checking again.

 

I'm not sur if you have already check the line to the boost sensor, because if that vacuum line pop off under boost you will get a rough idle and -10hg vacuum on the gauage. I had this happen to me on a new rebuild that I though I had bolwn!!
So I hope your situation is the same as mine.

 

Car looks great! sorry to hear about the engine though

 

Was yor motor stock, how many miles?

 

check the map sensor?

 

Hey Cj,

Like someone else mentioned, with a 500rpm idle you will get a low vacuum reading like that. Don't panic, find what is causing the idle to be low and you'll have it running fine.

 

at 500 rpm my vaccum is low and jumps up to 14 or so when the idle is back to 800.

 

i think the lights arent bad at all

goes good with the color in my opinion =p

 

If anybody wants those lights, I have a set of PIAA's that I just took off my Supra that original owners had on it.

 

I'm gonna take a look at it tomorow night probably. Been working way to much lately. Here's a picture. Hopefully aol will let me do this..CJ

 

One more.

 

Love the plate!!

 

Good visual check for blown motor: is the UIM shaking like mad? If it isn't, you're in luck, and everything should be ok. If it is... ouch.

Car looks great though, nice and clean all around. Looks like you take real good care of it. I hate even more to think it died on you if thats the case. Good luck, let us know.

 

Looks clean, the wifey did a good job for ya. I like the PIAA lights, a lil bigger then stock but i'm sure they are way brighter. Lic plate = VTEC this

 

ditto. it took me a while, but i think i got it. VTEC this?

 

Now to wash out your pants after you saw it die!

Seriously, it's probably not that bad. If it's idling at 500rpm the vacuum is going to be crap anyway. Even a brand new motor would be struggling to pull >10mmHg at 500RPM.

Pull the codes. When I forgot to hook up the idle solenoid I was pulling the same numbers.

HTH
-pete

 

What's that white box behind the fuse box?

 

My car has 47k miles on it as of now. I picked it up with about 44ish about 3.5yrs ago. Can't quite remember. But to be honest, they have been pretty hard miles. Most of those miles where put on traveling down to the drag strip. I change the oil regardless of milage about every 6 months. Pull plugs and check them out, probably every 200 miles or so. Try to change rearend/tranny fluid every year or so. I maintain the car very well, but I also drive it pretty hard. The box has something to do with the PIAAs. Don't know what...but it says PIAA on it.

If you guys notice, there's a Turbojeff battery tray in my car. And there just happens to be a GB going on right now if anyone is interested.

Actually one of my PIAAs are burnt out too. Anouther thing to add to my "To do list" Along with change all the susp. bushings, put a fuel system in it, throw some Blitz Z1s on it, lower it about an inch/replace shocks, replace the R-1 lip, get a R-1 strut tower brace....egads...this is gonna get expensive.

CJ

Also, thanks guys for all the ideas. I'll tear into it for shure tomorow.

 

How did you get 167/183 out of a '90 N/A?