CodingParadox
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So, messed with some stuff. The car now sometimes starts on its own power, sometimes doesn't. If I jump it, it starts fine, I can rollstart it and it's boggy but works. Starting itself, it just cranks and cranks but never catches. Very weird. In any event, this is tangential to my main question.
I did my timing tonight, because I wanted to see if that was causing some of this really messed up stuff. I discovered that the timing was at like 25 degrees BTDC. I then discovered that I couldn't move the distributor enough back to get it less than 16-ish degrees. I tried swapping my old distributor cap back on, and that one I could adjust nicely to 10. So, that other cap blows and doesn't really work on my engine. Fair enough, just annoying. Good thing it was cheap.
So, with the old cap back on, I adjusted to 10 BTDC with the service plugs shorted. I then pulled the short... And timing didn't move. It stayed right at 10. Odd. So I drove the car around. It was incredibly boggy, just like when I first got the car. When I first got the car, it drove, but idled weird, and I could boost but still had very little power. I found that timing was 10 degrees off. Fixed that and all was good. However, this time, timing is at 10 base, and that's not working, since I think the ECU isn't advancing it at all. So it's doing the same boggy thing. I can reach full boost at like 2500RPMs in 2nd gear because if I just start at 2400rpms or so and floor it, I'll get virtually no power, but fully spool after a few seconds and only be up to 2700-ish RPMs. Very very weird.
Any ideas what might be causing this?
On the upside, I can floor it all I want and it's not overheating, but this may also be because it's not actually making any power, and that as soon as I fix whatever this is, I'll have power agin and it'll overheat. From one problem back to another.
I did my timing tonight, because I wanted to see if that was causing some of this really messed up stuff. I discovered that the timing was at like 25 degrees BTDC. I then discovered that I couldn't move the distributor enough back to get it less than 16-ish degrees. I tried swapping my old distributor cap back on, and that one I could adjust nicely to 10. So, that other cap blows and doesn't really work on my engine. Fair enough, just annoying. Good thing it was cheap.
So, with the old cap back on, I adjusted to 10 BTDC with the service plugs shorted. I then pulled the short... And timing didn't move. It stayed right at 10. Odd. So I drove the car around. It was incredibly boggy, just like when I first got the car. When I first got the car, it drove, but idled weird, and I could boost but still had very little power. I found that timing was 10 degrees off. Fixed that and all was good. However, this time, timing is at 10 base, and that's not working, since I think the ECU isn't advancing it at all. So it's doing the same boggy thing. I can reach full boost at like 2500RPMs in 2nd gear because if I just start at 2400rpms or so and floor it, I'll get virtually no power, but fully spool after a few seconds and only be up to 2700-ish RPMs. Very very weird.
Any ideas what might be causing this?
On the upside, I can floor it all I want and it's not overheating, but this may also be because it's not actually making any power, and that as soon as I fix whatever this is, I'll have power agin and it'll overheat. From one problem back to another.