Help please!

[Rollinon18z]

Ok guy's I know I am a newbie but I need some serious help here! OK drove my car to the cities from my place last couple days. About an hr drive. Finally a warm day today. Noticed I had a coolant leak in which I fixed and she is building pressure but not blowing that hot of heat. Its warm but not hot. Well drove back today and boosting has been acting funny. It boosts up to 5psi then acts very finicky and lurches the car back and fourth badly until I let off. Well today I was driving it and it kept losing power little by little, until finally it lost all power and had absolutely none and wouldn't even go forward. I let it cool down because it seemed very hot even though temp gauge read at half. Coolant temp on dms link was 220 and internal was around 170 or so. After cooling down I had power again just no boost over 5psi. I was able to drive around for awhile like that just no boost but it had power. I got home plugged in the tuner again to make sure it wasn't overheating and shit it started running real rough and I smelled fuel pretty gross coming out the tail pipe. I did not see white smoke or anything of the sort. It is tuned for 80% E85 and 20% 91. Now I noticed I accidentally didn't use non Oxygenated 91 the last 2 fill up could this be an issue? I just don't get what is going on with this thing. Anyone have any ideas on where I should even begin with this thing? THANKS SO VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME!- Tim

 

[NoHndlbrsRqrd]

It sounds a lot like a boost leak. The computer thinks you are getting all the air and so is dumping fuel in but in reality the air is being pushed out and you only build about 5psi. Check all your pipes and couplers. Boost leak test.

 

[Miasma]

You probably have multiple leaks or a big leak. If your not moving air, you wont have any power. Do you know how to do a boost leak test?

 

[gofer]

Tim, when you created this thread it asked specifically for you to use the Topic Title field as a short description of your question but instead you put "Please Help" which isn't descriptive at all. We're more than happy to help you with your DSM woes, just please follow our sites rules next time.