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Only 8psi, no power, Air from Oil cap

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Puller

20+ Year Contributor
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Feb 7, 2003
Atlanta, Georgia
Compression is 155 across the board, car runs fine, but it won't boost past 8 or 9 psi no matter what i set it to, and it's not responsive at all when you give it gas. i hooked the mast directly to the Throttle body, and it still didn't do anything, when i open the oil cap you can feel air coming out...i have a breather filter and the pcv looks nice and clean but it might be bad... was wondering what my problem might be...new 8mm wires and ngk 6's as well, please help
 
also idle seems a tad lumpy, and with the oil cap off the air coming out and the oil smells of gas. it has power enough to go but you have to hold the gas to the floor to get going...it loses power very easily...i know im running rich, the plugs aren't fouled but are charred pretty good. no smoke of any kind...any ideas?
 
By mast do you mean a MAF Translator? If so, tune it. They do not always run right zero'd out.

What mods have you done to it lately?
 
oh no no, i took the stock 1g mas and put it directly to the throttle body...the air intake went on the tb as if it were a non turbo setup...this would tell me if i had boost leaks or not but it didn't change anything.
 
ok i have good spark on all 4 cylinders, i pulled the plugs on cylinders 1 and 2, the tips were white-ish and looked fine...i pulled the plugs on 3 and 4, they look brand new and smell like gas...i pulled the injectors and it looks like rust build up in the back of the injector (the side on the fuel rail) and this was cylinder 4 so im gonna clean them and see if it makes a difference...i know the loss of power is because im running on basically 2 cylinders...or so it seems...also there sometimes is a ticking coming from the tbelt side of the motor (cyl. 3 and 4) so i think im making progress.
 
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