my 1993 2.3 n/a notch-sluggish

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raphate

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• Apr 25, 2004

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ok i recently bought a 1993 notch for 450bux..things cherry...but it seems slugish..like when i press the gas it has no balls what so ever...i kno the a4ld's thats mine..are not the greatest but geezus its a turd...im guessing its the timing? any ideas..how do i change timing..it has no distributer, also the tranny was rebuilt not long ago..b4 i bought it

 

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Welcome to turdville with the stock 2.3NA. I pity those with the 5spd like myself and feel down right disturbed for you A4LD users

 

Lex

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OK. I know I'm a bit over hyped about my recent discovery so I will only be brief. I know everyone bashes the A4LD tranny, and I'm not a huge fan of it either, but I gutted my cataylic converter and got rid of the sluggishness I felt for the last month.

If interested check out "Gutting My Cat Got My Power Back" thread. Like I said I'm a bit over hyped cause it WAS the solution to my problem. This morning I took the highway to work instead of the back roads and I passed a car uphill at about 145kmph . Thats good for a 2.3 N/A.
Last week I couldn't get passed 70kmph on the highway. So it made a huge difference.

 

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raphate

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sounds good..the 2.3 will be coming out due to a 5.0 swap with in 2 months..and 2.3 will be put in a ranger, how do u change the timing?..il try the gutting the cat to

 

89Stang

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eehh my old 2.3 A4LD combo ran 18.2 several years back...
man I am old man to these here 2.3 boards....

 

i4power

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• Apr 26, 2004

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I don't think that you can change the timing on the DIS 2.3's. You'd need a new chip for that.

 

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• Apr 27, 2004

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i4power said:

I don't think that you can change the timing on the DIS 2.3's. You'd need a new chip for that.

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I can change the timing on my DIS 2.3L it goes from slow to stop fairly regularly.

If you want some quick cheap speed from a 2.3L N/A run from the garage to the house

 

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• Apr 29, 2004

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My DIS ranger had the timing pill on the firewall for EEC timing advance. Just a thought, check if the pill is still in.

I got my 90 Notch (A4LD) cheap for a turbo swap.
It was sluggish till I noticed why I got it so cheap.
The pill was missing from down by the distributor.
Plugged one in and zoomzoomzoom!
But it's getting more zoom soon.

 

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kiddiccarus said:

If you want some quick cheap speed from a 2.3L N/A run from the garage to the house

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