Slightly stumped, Very rough running Options

[Thestigz06]

Well I've been struggling to find the problem with my poor teener for the past couple of days (again). It all started a few days ago as I was leaving the girlfriends house. It idles completely fine (lil high when cold) and runs consistently but as I drive off she has no power to speak of and begins a series of small backfires with an occasional large one.
Well I diagnosed it this morning, timing is dead on, all plugs are gapped perfectly as well as the clean points, and all injectors are squirting fuel.

Has anyone had an experience close to If not exactly like this??? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/WTF.gif)

[RON S.]

I had a similar issue for the last month or so, and posted basically the same question over on the bird board 911 site since I'm running a 6.

The usual answers that came back were plugs, timing, bad wires, distributor cap, etc....


For the last couple of month's, I'd take my car for a ride, and all would be fine for the first 20 minutes or so, than it'd just start losing power, as if it'd lost a cylinder or two. Feathering the gas would minimize the issue, and if I slowed down, it would idle just fine. The car never left me stranded.

I checked all he usual suspected items, to no solution.
Last Saturday, I drove the rocket about 70 miles to a VW event, and back home, but this time there was issues. I waited anxiously for 140 miles to feel the engine begin to misfire but it never did.


What if anything was different about Saturday the 14th, than any other previous day??

The temperature... It was at least 10 degrees cooler than the previous 3 weeks of driving days.

I'm not in any way suggesting what your problem is, but I'm almost convinced in my case that due to the 95-100 degree days We've had here in SC, that my car was vapor locking due to the build up of heat in the engine compartment after a 20-30 minute continuous drive. I put my infared Temperature gun in the engine compartment, and it was not unusual to see 150-160 degree temps on one of those days.

I will soon be working on doing some insulating of the fuel lines to help minimize the possibility of vapor locking on these extremely hot days..

JM2CW,

Ron