Re: What the *&%$ is happening to my car?????

[Chuck Simpson <csimpson@zeltech.com>]

Or maybe it was that Tuscon "desert" heat...   :)
There really is no telling what it could be, but I really do wonder if
it has something to do with your air-intake (heat related or not).
You could always give your car a quick lookover and check your
filter, mesh-screen, hoses, etc.  Maybe somethine was temporarily
clogging up the intake system, then finally gave way.

Could also be the altitude.  Isn't Tucson a little bit above sea-level?

Just a thought,

-Chuck Simpson...



Alexxi wrote:

> Could be the long trip burnt the carbon around the injectors and out of the
> cylinders . I had an older car that I once drove from Ontario to Florida at
> a good clip for 25 hours straight. I found on the way back and from then on
> the car had more pep and increased fuel mileage.  Don't know about the idle.
>
> At 08:38 AM 10/5/99 -0600, you wrote:
> >Okay. Just made it back in two nights ago. Two days, 24 hours, 1600 miles
> >driving from Tucson to Pensacola. Fine.
> >   Somewhere along the way, maybe when I stopped to fuel, someone got into
> >my engine bay and put an extra cylinder in the engine. I don't know why, but
> >for some reason, 1st and 2nd pull like a racehorse on speed. It's
> >incredible. It was quick before, but now it's downright Super-fly. Maybe
> >it's the shoes. Or the Mobil 1 synthetic. The down side is, my idle is rough
> >again. Not rough as in the mirror's shaking off, but as in my body is shaken
> >by the thing. I had the prob in FL before, but didn't notice it in AZ. Now
> >it's back in FL. If I have to put up with it to have the accel, so be it.