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Hi All,

I was driving this morning when my car started to play up. It is a 96 Series II GTS-T, only mods are Zaust and HKS air filter. Basically is slowed down approaching a set of lights, then accelerated as they changed, not hard, very gentle, when the engine seemed to start vibrating or shaking. I could feel it through the peddles and gear knob and it sounded bad. i had to keep driving for a little bit and it slowly got worse. I only drove about 1km.

Any ideas what might be wrong, anyone had a similar problem. My first guess was one of the spark plugs was missing. But I really dont know much about cars.. i am learning though.

Any help would be great.

Cheers,

Ace.

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it wouldnt be a miss cos missing doesnt make ur engine shake, check the cam gears for timing. Does it feel like loss of power as well ? if so maybe one of your chambers isnt even working like running 5 instead of 6 cylinders. If i were you id try and get it to a mechanic asap

Check the bolts (four or five) around the fan/fanclutch. I had a similar prob. after a service a little while ago. Turns out they didn't do the bolts up and I nearly lost the fan in the engine bay!!!

Yeah, it wasnt as powerful as it should have been. It didnt feel like i should have driven it either, but i had to keep going, and it kept going.

I'll look at the fan, but i dont think thats the problem.

I left the car where i pulled up so i cant check this stuff out till later tonight. but i am going to get it towed, again, to the mechanic tomorrow and get it sorted out.

I just signed up for RACV, so i'll get them to come out and look at it tomorrow for me. Gotta wait 24 hrs.

I am guessing its not a good idea to drive it to the mechanic.

Cheers again.

How much vibration is there? If its only a little vibration and you have a big exhaust, some times the exhaust can shake the car up a bit. Depends if you have a flexible exhaust connection between the dump and the cat. I know one mine there isn't a flexible connection and the car gently shakes at idle.

If its a hard vibration it could be anything? A fouled plug, a misfiring cylinder anything some thing out of balance....

it wouldnt be a miss cos missing doesnt make ur engine shake

yes it does. try driving a skyline on 5 cylinders - sounds like the engine is about to fall out until u really rev it (not recommended)

have a quick look over the ignition system

coil packs and spark plugs and make sure theres no loose connections. if you dont know alot of these cars then take it to a mechanic and explain what happened and say u think it might be misfiring on 1-2 cylinders

yeah missing is quite different then having it run on five cylinders man. i have a miss at idle and that does not make my engine shake vigorously, when it starts missing after redline the engine does not shake. IF a cylinder is not working of course it would shake, i shouldve reaphrased my post for less confusion

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