Loss of Power

88fivepointoh · 09-07-2002, 11:19 PM

ok guys, Last nite i decieded to drive my car one last time for the season up here in Rochester NY, and I have had some problems with the car all summer but cleared most of them up with new injectors and mass air unit etc... last nite i was driving and my car started to slighty hesitate and buck in 5th gear. I kept driving and I noticed I had decent power up until I got around 4K on the tach. From there up I had no power at all and my car would Pop out of the intake if i went to WOT. The more I drove the car the worse it got to the point where after 2500RPM I would loose power completly. My car would smell pretty rich at times. It finally at a light died and it wouldn't start back up.. After a few minuets of sitting it started back up but i seemed like i had no spark cause i smelled raw fuel out of my pipes. My car seems to have gotten louder, almost like its running with the timing spout connector off, though it on. Could I have a ECM problem or my TFI module going bad? I replaced my TFI, and MY ECM when I mad my mass air conversion.. MY coil is a MSD blaster TFI, though i have heard horror stories over them.. Any Idea's would be great.. thanks guys!

88fivepointoh · 09-08-2002, 09:44 AM

I am not sure why, but no one replies to my posts.. Am i doing something wrong here?

88fivepointoh · 09-08-2002, 11:43 AM

Well I ran some codes and got a code 14.. that should be ignition pickup erratic.. does that sound about right?

88workcar · 09-08-2002, 11:51 AM

Mine did the EXACT same thing the last two days. I changed the whole distributor. Which part is bad, I don't know. But it cured mine.

88fivepointoh · 09-08-2002, 12:00 PM

Did you change your TFI module along with the distributor, or just the distributor itself?

88workcar · 09-08-2002, 12:26 PM

The whole thing. It was easier and I had a spare.

88fivepointoh · 09-08-2002, 12:29 PM

Thanks! I am out to the parts store now i guess.. I just replaced my distributor when I did my modifications, I guess I came across a bad unit.. thanks!

09-07-2002, 11:19 PM	#1
88fivepointoh Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Rochester Posts: 553	Loss of Power ok guys, Last nite i decieded to drive my car one last time for the season up here in Rochester NY, and I have had some problems with the car all summer but cleared most of them up with new injectors and mass air unit etc... last nite i was driving and my car started to slighty hesitate and buck in 5th gear. I kept driving and I noticed I had decent power up until I got around 4K on the tach. From there up I had no power at all and my car would Pop out of the intake if i went to WOT. The more I drove the car the worse it got to the point where after 2500RPM I would loose power completly. My car would smell pretty rich at times. It finally at a light died and it wouldn't start back up.. After a few minuets of sitting it started back up but i seemed like i had no spark cause i smelled raw fuel out of my pipes. My car seems to have gotten louder, almost like its running with the timing spout connector off, though it on. Could I have a ECM problem or my TFI module going bad? I replaced my TFI, and MY ECM when I mad my mass air conversion.. MY coil is a MSD blaster TFI, though i have heard horror stories over them.. Any Idea's would be great.. thanks guys!

09-08-2002, 11:51 AM	#4
88workcar Registered Member Join Date: Oct 1999 Location: Pierre Part, La. U.S.A. Posts: 1,850	Mine did the EXACT same thing the last two days. I changed the whole distributor. Which part is bad, I don't know. But it cured mine. __________________ 88workcar 1988 Mustang LX 342. 417rwhp @ 6800. 28 X 10 ET Drag, 4.30s, 10.69 @ 126.43 1.42 60ft. 11.13 @ 127.7 on BFGs 1.72 60ft Rice Hater # 42 To be old and wise, You must first be young and stupid I'm somewhere in tthe middle.

09-08-2002, 12:26 PM	#6
88workcar Registered Member Join Date: Oct 1999 Location: Pierre Part, La. U.S.A. Posts: 1,850	The whole thing. It was easier and I had a spare. __________________ 88workcar 1988 Mustang LX 342. 417rwhp @ 6800. 28 X 10 ET Drag, 4.30s, 10.69 @ 126.43 1.42 60ft. 11.13 @ 127.7 on BFGs 1.72 60ft Rice Hater # 42 To be old and wise, You must first be young and stupid I'm somewhere in tthe middle.

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09-08-2002, 09:44 AM	#2
88fivepointoh Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Rochester Posts: 553	I am not sure why, but no one replies to my posts.. Am i doing something wrong here?

09-08-2002, 11:43 AM	#3
88fivepointoh Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Rochester Posts: 553	Well I ran some codes and got a code 14.. that should be ignition pickup erratic.. does that sound about right?

09-08-2002, 12:00 PM	#5
88fivepointoh Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Rochester Posts: 553	Did you change your TFI module along with the distributor, or just the distributor itself?

09-08-2002, 12:29 PM	#7
88fivepointoh Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Rochester Posts: 553	Thanks! I am out to the parts store now i guess.. I just replaced my distributor when I did my modifications, I guess I came across a bad unit.. thanks!