Chris_Guthrie
Probationary Member
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- May 19, 2019
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Yale,
Virginia
So guys I had another thread about this car that I started a while back, basically had to out this thing together from scratch, 96 gst, 98 engine and ecu. Long story short, I've gotten it running but it has very poor performance. When I take off from a stop, it begs down so bad it almost cuts off, and when I'm moving it feels exactly like (best way I can describe it) I'm in my truck towing a loaded down trailer.
From the research I've done on here, I've seen a lot of posts with similar issues of blogging, breaking up in the higher rpms and such, but nobody has posted their results of what the issues actually were. But I have narrowed it down to what I believe is the same symptoms of a decent boost leak. I'm going to hook up my boost leak tester my next day off, but was wondering if anyone has had similar issues after putting a car together, and what the cause was. The reasoning, so far every single little problem I've had with this car, has turned into a huge issue so trying to get some information on what to look at if the boost leak test doesnt fix this up for me.
As far as the car, bone stock except the evo 3 16g, fmic, and full 3" exhaust (I am currently running a silencer due to restrictions here, but even if that's contributing it shouldn't be anywhere near as bad of a lack of acceleration as I'm getting now. I also have a boost gauge. Boost builds up to around 4psi, I've seen it go up as high as 9psi, but there really is no difference in lower seems to be lacking through the whole rpm range. Also, nothing to datalog. I need to get it drivable in stockish condition before I dump any more money into mods etc.
From the research I've done on here, I've seen a lot of posts with similar issues of blogging, breaking up in the higher rpms and such, but nobody has posted their results of what the issues actually were. But I have narrowed it down to what I believe is the same symptoms of a decent boost leak. I'm going to hook up my boost leak tester my next day off, but was wondering if anyone has had similar issues after putting a car together, and what the cause was. The reasoning, so far every single little problem I've had with this car, has turned into a huge issue so trying to get some information on what to look at if the boost leak test doesnt fix this up for me.
As far as the car, bone stock except the evo 3 16g, fmic, and full 3" exhaust (I am currently running a silencer due to restrictions here, but even if that's contributing it shouldn't be anywhere near as bad of a lack of acceleration as I'm getting now. I also have a boost gauge. Boost builds up to around 4psi, I've seen it go up as high as 9psi, but there really is no difference in lower seems to be lacking through the whole rpm range. Also, nothing to datalog. I need to get it drivable in stockish condition before I dump any more money into mods etc.