runs like ****

[tsi_daggie]

once agian i am turning to the tuner for advice and help. once again amongst other problems now my motor feels like it is running on 2 cylanders*. took it out last night. pulled out of garage. ran awesome. just thought i would take it out for a little spin. got out of town bout 3 miles and thought i know i have a radiator leak maybe i should turn around and go back home. when i started to slow down the tach started to act all messed up. bouncing all around. then when i got to the corner to turn around it died. and when i started cranking on it, it was like it was flooded. i got it started, but i was bangin and misfiring, and had absolutely no power at all. so i though ow shiot my turbo is gone, then all the sudden it snapped out of it and the turbo pulled HARD. then went back to ballless. did this off and on all the way back into town. could get it and faster that 45. and to add to the dilema the temp guage rose pretty rapidly even though i was goin 45mph with it bein 25degrees out. i limped it back into town got it in my driveway and shut it off. i could hear the over flow tank boiling away. so i let it cool off and went out later that night to put it in my garage. started it up (started normal) and it ran pretty good. so i decided to take it around the block, half way and back to havign its nuts ripped out. put it in my garage and let it sit over night. looked at it today, wouldnt start (acting flooded) smelling gas like crazy, when it does start it sounds like a lawnmower engine. so i decided to look into it.

started with the plugs. *brand new* they all smelled like gas and were wet. rechecked the gap- they were all good. also has brand new high temp silicone wires

then i checked my thermostat to c if it was bad and causing the overheating, there wasnt one in the housing.

also on the way out of town it was throwing a good ammount of heat. when i got turned around and on my way back in it was ice cold. also i had the air on (with heat cranked) to help with the cooling.

nothing is unplugged, reset the ecu. i have no idea what is up with this thing

please help

 

['93EclipseGSX]

If the car was run low on coolant, and overheated severly it could have blown the head gasket. Since coolant/water is not able to be compressed it would cause a missfire. The boiling overflow is a sign of a blown head gasket. To be sure you can take it to a shop and have them check to see if combustion gasses are in the cooling system.

Hope this helps, Rob

 

[Chadmacds]

When your tac starts bouncing around and your motor starts to cut out I would say there is about a 90% chance that it is ignition, either that or cam position sensor but most likely its just your coil overheating, since you have a 90 the tach output is bolted right to the coil pack. I would at least pull the coil off and check it over. I had a problem last week with mine not being grounded, also make sure that your plug wires are snapped in to the coil all the way, not just the boots but the metal contacts inside. I would look past the head gasket for now, dont get all freaked out, its probably something simple.

 

[RedRain]

[QUOTE='93EclipseGSX]If the car was run low on coolant, and overheated severly it could have blown the head gasket. Since coolant/water is not able to be compressed it would cause a missfire. The boiling overflow is a sign of a blown head gasket. To be sure you can take it to a shop and have them check to see if combustion gasses are in the cooling system.

Hope this helps, Rob [/QUOTE]

I had the same idea

 

[Defiant]

please help

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[tsi_daggie]

sorry for the double posting.

coem to think of it i thought i saw the coil pack had only 1 bolt holding it in place. i will go investigate further. thanks 4 the help peeps

 

[tsi_daggie]

put all the bolts in the coil pack today and all seems well. never would have guessed. thanks guys i really appreciate all the help on this one