Update on my car

[White Phoenix]

As some may remember (Jon will) i was having problems with my car all summer long. I only took my car out to a few woodward meets and most of the time showed up with a Mustang or a CTS...

Well the other night my buddies and i were looking at it. A few of us were smoking some cigars (including me) and a brilliant idea came over me... use the smoke from the cigar to find out where the leak was....We let my car cool down so the fans wouldnt come on. Then turned it on and i took a huge puff and blew it around the intake... nothing happened. Then i blew some on the drivers side header and nothing happened. When i blew it on the passenger side header it started to drift backwards and got sucked into the EGR tube. Well come to fiond out my EGR tube was cracked in half.

So what was happening was clean air was being sucked into the egr and was flowing past the o2 sensors. When the o2 sensors detected the overly clean air they sent a lean bank 2 to the computer. So when the engine did was started to dump fuel into that side of the engine...therefore making it run so rich that it was fouling out the spark plugs and causing the stutter...


So as a daring test i drove my car 1.5 hours to MSU to see the GF. Well i made it without any problems...



Long story short:
all my summer problems were due to a cracked EGR tube. Removed the tube and made 2 block off plates... car runs perfect now :smt038


looks like ill actually be able to have fun with it this summer :smt077

[Black93Z]

sweet that sounds like fun :smt025

[WishIHadACamaro]

thats cool.

Good job fixing it. Pretty clever idea.