also, re-check your timing and for any exhaust leaks......Quoting Neil Thorpe
<nt014b6628@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi all,
>
> Drove my 82 still EFI to show and shine day at a
> hot rod, custom and American car day, going all ok!!
>
> Coming home hit the gas pedal (wot) car faltered,
> trans kicked down but that is about all that happened,
> backed off the throttle trans changed back up converter
> locked up car accelerated ok with this partial throttle
> opening.
>
> Misfire under load is then the best description i can give.
>
> Drive car home using light throttle only, struggled up hills etc.
>
> Long day, up early also i have two young kids (6 months and 3yrs,
> read tired) so i couldn't be bothered to look to deeply today,
> besides popping the hood and pushing the throttle assembly
> by hand to eliminate the throttle linkage from the equation,
> engine revs up to maybe 2000RPM (hard to say without putting
> a tacho on it) and just stays there (goes flat).
>
> My train of thought which is a bit ragged at the moment points
> me towards crud in spray bar assembly (plug wires #5 and #7
> are separated).
>
> Did i mention that i had recently changed the timing chain,
> inlet manifold gaskets, cleaned out throttle body and
> changed the valve stem seals? The car has been running
> OK for the last week since the major surgery and the car
> has never idled so well (even now with the misfire).
>
> Will have a look tomorrow any other chain of thought will
> help my overstretched mind.
>
> Thanks Neil Thorpe underpowered black 82 imp.
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