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Old 02-26-2022, 08:00 PM
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Ok ,so my car has had it's tune for about 2 years and has run ok mostly since then. A little hard to start sometimes, mostly good. I drove it to work the other night and it started to rain . When I leave work , I can hardly get it to idle. Every stop it stalls out and I use a lot more e85 because I am revving at lights. on the interstate at speed it runs fine. I do have vents in the hood, and it had rained all day. Any thoughts?
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Rain often shows up weaknesses in old ignition system parts.

You might be losing spark somewhere. Could be worth checking your coils.
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Old 02-26-2022, 10:11 PM
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Yeah, I get it . What was weird was I drove it to see the guy that tuned it for me, after that . It drove absolutely perfect ! Kind of frustrating. I have been running with the original coils, I was told they were plenty of spark for my power level. Well ,I do have LS coils I was going to use back then, guess it is time to use them. I have not seen many builds going that route lately. Usually coil on plug.
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That was in the dry when It was good
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