sounds like a scooby

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sounds like a scooby

By tom_eg_vti
- Sat Mar 13, 2010 11:56 am #181026 hey guy , my vti civic sounds like a scooby wrx , have checked the sparce plugs and HT lead and there all ok, the car runs perfecty tho , there's NO flat spots when i put my foot down Vtec kicks in fine , no running problem ,the car as been remapped n chipped ECU could have any thing to do with it ? cheers tom
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By TrailerTrash
- Sat Mar 13, 2010 2:04 pm #181033 one way to find out if its the ECU, swap a stock one in and see what happens
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By Chance
- Sat Mar 13, 2010 2:11 pm #181034 The sound of a suby gets me "excited"...
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By Apexracing
- Sat Mar 13, 2010 4:05 pm #181047 is your car stock? if not whats mods have you done.
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By Benj
- Sat Mar 13, 2010 4:19 pm #181048 if you have checked to make sure that all the connections on the leads are good, and there isnt a crack in the distributor cap and the rotor is fine, you may have water going into one of the cylinder, so to find out what one it is you start the car and start pulling leads. Possible things that are broken if thats the case... Intake gasket, intake itself where that water jacket is, head gasket....

GL :thumb:
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By tom_eg_vti
- Sat Mar 13, 2010 6:48 pm #181064 to be honist dont whats been done to the car i brough it like it , my and a few mate reckon that it has been cammed up , and the rocker cover is RED not the standed black , i asked the bloke who i brough it from said he hasnt paint it , the car does not over heat , and doesnt lose water
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By tom_eg_vti
- Sat Mar 13, 2010 7:13 pm #181072 rite with just been out to the car , ive checked all the dizzy cap rota and the ht leads are theres no damage
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By tom_eg_vti
- Sun Mar 14, 2010 11:21 am #181206 nah there's no engine check light on
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By Benj
- Sun Mar 14, 2010 5:50 pm #181227
ilmcrx wrote:if you have checked to make sure that all the connections on the leads are good, and there isnt a crack in the distributor cap and the rotor is fine, you may have water going into one of the cylinder, so to find out what one it is you start the car and start pulling leads. Possible things that are broken if thats the case... Intake gasket, intake itself where that water jacket is, head gasket....

GL :thumb:




did you do anything that i wrote here??
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By flyinryan122
- Mon Mar 15, 2010 2:19 am #181286 My car did this same thing. It was low on compression in one cylinder. by low, i mean dead.
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By tom_eg_vti
- Mon Mar 15, 2010 10:03 pm #181439 yer i did what you said ilmcrx , im going 2 do a compresstion on it in the weekend
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By forcefedEG
- Wed Mar 17, 2010 4:04 pm #181856
Chance wrote:The sound of a suby gets me "excited"...


x2 :thumb:
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By tom_eg_vti
- Wed Mar 24, 2010 10:19 am #183342 it went fine , none of the cyclinders has not lost compresstion
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