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Hey Guys,

I need some help diagnosing what could possibly be wrong with my 93 r33 gts-t manual (bone stock)

Here is a recap of what i have done the last two days...

Yesterday - Car was perfect as it has been for 3 months

Today - went to gym at 7am

accidently left lights on so when i got back the car was flat.

One guy at the gym suggested pushing it and dropping the clutch in 2nd so it might start... stupidly i accepted the push so we tried 3 times with no results =(.. got a friend to come jumpstart the car and it worked fine..

Drove it 30mins home and it seemed to work fine.

Later today (2pm) I cleaned the (left side) of the engine bay with degreaser and washed it with a hose (not a strong pressure). i started the car afterwards and it seemed to idel badly with little gasps from exhaust (cleared after 5mins)

Later Tonight (6pm) drove to sisters birthday party. After 5 mins the car seemed to lose serious amount of power in each gear and when we got on the highway it struggled hard to keep over 100km/hr

Check engine light came on with ( transmission signal with heat coming off it)

Pulled over at the service centre and checked under the car, the catalactic converter was red hot!! like glowing hot at the top!

Exhaust fumes were extremely hot. Left it there and got a lift to party...

Later Tonight (9pm) Came back to the car at petrol station and checked coolant which was fine

Oil was fine

Any thought please will be great!!!!!

Getting in contact with NRMA tomorrow

Ryan

Started car and it seemed to burble a bit from exhaust.

Does it sounds like its missing? If you got water down in between your coil packs and spark plug it might cause it to not run right

Washed my Hondas bay one day and had the same problem, (it had a distributor and leads but same thing) car sounded like a wrx and barely drove as it wasn't firing properly.

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