Celi has no power Giddup!!!

[New_Name]

man my car is acting up on me....ok heres the situation....when i start from a complete stop my car revsto 2k and then it feels like its gonna shut down and falls to about 800, and then it starts to rev normal again......wtf is wrong with my car.....it doesnt have that pick up anymore......it feels like its hauling something heavy too.......im thinking it could be my CAI sucking in too much water or that it might be my spark plugs misfiring......

does any body have a clue?

man, this makes me wanna sell my car and get a RSX Type R when it hits the US shores....but then those damn cars have problems too......maybe ill get the EVO......

well, i just need some feedback.....

[harrison888]

also check your throttle body

[New_Name]

well, i dont know much about cars, so my question is, what could be wrong with the throttle body?

[loudceli]

Does it happen all the time or just sometimes? Do you have a S-AFC??

[veil320]

how clean is your CAI(filter)? Do you have your air/con on? when this is happening, is your fan kicking on? is this happening when your car is warming up???


how clean is your CAI(filter)?
Your car may be struggling to get air into the engine at idle.

If you're cai is injesting water ...your engine would be hydrolocked right now and will not run.


If you don't know too much about cars...you might want to do some more research on them and aftermarket parts before modifying something that cost 20,000+...I'm not attacking you...this is just common sense.

Any alteration to your car is going to have either positive and/or <B>negative</B> effects ...even the almighty type-r (as great of a car it is)isn't susceptible to this fact

[New_Name]

no offense taken, but i do know enough to modify my car but once things get technical, i'm lost....

well, i noticed that my car has that problem mostly when my engine is not warm, but it happens all other times too, jus not as bad....(jus a note...i dont ever rev up past 4k when my engine is cold)....i think that it has to be that my engine has water in it.....cuz i didnt experience this problem until two days ago....before that my car was riding fine and i had no problems with take off....now when i prepare to take off the rpms hit about 2k, then the rpms drop down to about 5-6oo then pops back up to norm.....this is driving me crazy.....

my a/c is off, and i dont think my fan kicks in much at all....

well, my CAI should be fairly, if not, really clean since i've just had it in for about 3 to 4 weeks now....

and no, i dont have an S-AFC....

im suggesting that water or my sparkplugs misfiring has to be the problem...and what about the deal with the throttle body?....what could be wrong there?

thanks for your inputs

[New_Name]

no offense taken, but i do know enough to modify my car but once things get technical, i'm lost....

well, i noticed that my car has that problem mostly when my engine is not warm, but it happens all other times too, jus not as bad....(jus a note...i dont ever rev up past 4k when my engine is cold)....i think that it has to be that my engine has water in it.....cuz i didnt experience this problem until two days ago....before that my car was riding fine and i had no problems with take off....now when i prepare to take off the rpms hit about 2k, then the rpms drop down to about 5-6oo then pops back up to norm.....this is driving me crazy.....

my a/c is off, and i dont think my fan kicks in much at all....

well, my CAI should be fairly, if not, really clean since i've just had it in for about 3 to 4 weeks now....

and no, i dont have an S-AFC....

im suggesting that water or my sparkplugs misfiring has to be the problem...and what about the deal with the throttle body?....what could be wrong there?

thanks for your inputs

[Blue Bomber]

Try cleaning your MAFS. It collects a lot of dirt over time. Just use a Q-tip.

BTW, do you think you're gonna have less problems with an EVO than a Celica? :nono:

[CelicaSupra]

EVO has the 4G63 motor from the Eclipse Turbo....hmmmm...."Crankwalk" sound familiar, unless of course they have corrected the problem which I don't know.

[Kit99bar]

yah clean your mafs

[Ntence99]

I had the same prob after installing my injen cai,but only after i put gas in the car.I unpluged my vac sensor and it runs fine now.6 months later still fine,even though i do need to get the codes ran through at tyhe dealer,they will probley replace the vac s

[TypeSzH]

EVO 7 all the way. One fine piece of machine.

[New_Name]

oh, no way, im not getting the Evo......not even a consideration anymore......its priced at $37k......too much money for me.....but im seriously thinking about the Type S now......im gonna try to solve my problem first though.....cuz i love our Celi's......and i really dont want to get rid of it.....especially with my luck, once i get rid of it they'll come out with a s/c or turbo......then i would be really pissed.......

eh, Ntence99....what a coincidence.....this all started happening after i filled my gas tank up the last time.....its been happening ever since.....

[F22-Raptor]

sounds like bad gas... you didn't put diesel fuel in did you :)

[New_Name]

hehe.....no, i put 93 octane in as always......

[F22-Raptor]

Get some fuel injector cleaner and throw it in your gas tank next time you are on empty and then fill up. Gas tanks have crud inside the tanks that can get into people's cars when they fill up causing nice little things like dirty injectors...Try that and see if it don't help. It;s only 2.49 so it can't hurt :)

[New_Name]

hey i know this is a newbie question, but where is my MAFS located.....i know, i did the install myself but when i did it i didnt know any of the technical names of the parts, i jus sorta placed pieces where they seem to go......plus i had a diagram...thanks...please respond asap.......

[New_Name]

oh i just put some cleaners in two tanks ago......

[New_Name]

well, think i cleaned them, but they weren too dirty.....i used q-tip....i figured its the sensor connected to my injen cai....am i rright?

[F22-Raptor]

yep

[New_Name]

what is wrong with this forum????........i keep getting the old threads only.....nothing is or can be updated?.......i hope this posts......hmmmmmm......i even restarted my pc.....

[New_Name]

well, i huess i jus had to post something all is fine now.....weird...

[Ntence99]

Have u tried unpluggging your vacume switching sensor?Its located rabout halfway down the intake right beside a mount.try it and tell me if it works

[New_Name]

ok....ill try to do that......guess what i took my air filter out and tested my car to see if it was my air filter.....i gave it a lil gas and the problem seem to be gone...but no totally.....after i put my air filter back on, the problem started up again....hmmmmm....maybe it is my ir filter.....but ill unplug my vaccuum hose just to test it out...cuz this is really bothering me.....

[Ntence99]

dont unplug the vac hose!!!itll really run like ****! halfwaydown the cai there is a mount with a sensor on it.unplug that!

[New_Name]

wow...today, i got into my car and it really did not want to run at all....it sorta felt like i was out of gas and that my car was gasping for air......FUK!!!!!!!....it was so slow accelaraitng.....i tried the plug and it didnt seem to work at all.....

saying that there could be something wrong with my throttle body, what would i need to look for to fix the problem in the t/b?