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Hey guys just thought for any of you that have experienced something like this and couldnt find the problem here is something els for you to check over.

I dont get much time to drive or work on my car these days, most of the time its on a saturday. So being saturday yesterday i took it for a drive and for awhile now ive had a few issues while driving it and the problem seemed to be getting worse over time and i could only notice it little by little because of the time difference between drives. Any way half way to my destination i lost alot of power and the car kept stalling when my foot wasn't on the accelorator (and this is bad because half way through an intersection i would loose breaks and power steering lol slip it back into Neutral turn key and have to accelerate). Lucky for me I had a spare set of plugs sitting in my glove box from ages ago, i thought maybe i had lost a cylinder or something because of all the black smoke that was comming out (just a guess maybe unburnt fuel?). so i got to my brothers house and i asked him for his tool kit and i began changing my plugs 1 hour it took me, and then while putting every thing back together i noticed a crack on the pipe that runs across coil pack cover its quite fat and only goes from one inlet to one outlet directly on ither side of the coil pack cover. the crack was about 6 cm long from the beginning of the left and side all the way round to just past the first corner. lol me being the bush machanic i am i found a quick fix. some brown packing tape, taped the abolute sh!t out of it and put it back on. took the car for a drive and it drive like it was brand spanking new.

So if you have any thing like this, where your car is lacking power, is bellowing black smoke, missfiring, and stalling when your foot isn't on the accerlator, It might be something as simple as a vacuum leak. oh and before i forget my plugs still had great points on them but oh well.... if any one knows of the pipe im talking about please add a picture for me thanks in advance.

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now that the problem is fixed id advise you to disconnect that battery, hold brake down to release all residue power, reset and drive.

Im in that habit of resetting the ecu for any minor change........

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The fault you have described is over-fuelling due to a metered-air leak. It's what makes AFM cars run like shite with atmospheric BOV's fitted.

Even a loose oil dipstick will mess up the running of the engine.

Yep exactly.

Damn afms, the amount times at drift days ive popped an intercooler hose and had to limp into the pits bellowing black smoke and barely running.

Got 3-4 hours drifting with 100mph tape on intercooler piping after it split, works a treat :blink:

And yeah my stagea drops on idle if you take the oil cap off.

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now that the problem is fixed id advise you to disconnect that battery, hold brake down to release all residue power, reset and drive.

Im in that habit of resetting the ecu for any minor change........

dunno about resetting the ecu brother ive got a Greddy emanage ultimate.... what will happen if the ecu is reset? isnt the Greddy a piggy back system and alters the air fuel and ignition according to what its fed from the stock ecu? im no guru but i dunno what will happen. Will it reset my Greddy? so many unknowns lol.

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I dont think it will reset the emananage, these normally have to be reset via the software. What it does is resets any fault codes the computer has registered. So if its in say limp home mode it will reset from this and go back to normal. I had to do this to correct my idle with the stock 26 ecu after we fixed a few vaccum leaks.

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