I have a strange problem wiith my car, I thought it was an exhaust leak, but I don't think so anymore
Here's what happens:
Sometimes I will go to drive my car and when it starts up It sounds like it has an exhaust leak, and when driven the leak sounds hella loud and performance is decreased, no bucking or anything it just feels like its towing something
Other times i will start it and it will idle without any leaking noises and then when i drive it it feels great, there is no leaking noise and the exhaust sounds awsome and performance is very much increased, for instance today I was driving it and it sounded great and it was burning the rear tires in 2nd, when it sounds bad it barely squeeks them in 1st
My timing is set at 14, but I had this same problem when it was at 10 and 12, and I used to think it was pinging so I had it down to 8 a few times with the same problems.
What gets me is that it is intermittent, seems like a leak would be constant.
Temp has no effect on it, summer winter its still intermittent
Im really confused, any help would be appreciated.
Plugs are newish Autolites, Wires are newish Bosch, Cap rotor and Coil newish MSD, o2's are less than a year old, IAC was cleaned a few months ago, PCV is a month old.
thanks
Here's what happens:
Sometimes I will go to drive my car and when it starts up It sounds like it has an exhaust leak, and when driven the leak sounds hella loud and performance is decreased, no bucking or anything it just feels like its towing something
Other times i will start it and it will idle without any leaking noises and then when i drive it it feels great, there is no leaking noise and the exhaust sounds awsome and performance is very much increased, for instance today I was driving it and it sounded great and it was burning the rear tires in 2nd, when it sounds bad it barely squeeks them in 1st
My timing is set at 14, but I had this same problem when it was at 10 and 12, and I used to think it was pinging so I had it down to 8 a few times with the same problems.
What gets me is that it is intermittent, seems like a leak would be constant.
Temp has no effect on it, summer winter its still intermittent
Im really confused, any help would be appreciated.
Plugs are newish Autolites, Wires are newish Bosch, Cap rotor and Coil newish MSD, o2's are less than a year old, IAC was cleaned a few months ago, PCV is a month old.
thanks