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Old 10-27-2017, 04:20 PM
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Okay, so last week I drove my car and it ran completely fine. I turned it on yesterday and it ran like crap. Very sluggish running, and the weird thing is the intake sounds really loud and deep. And the turbo fluttered a lot more than normal. Any little blip of throttle would make it flutter. First I thought the turbo was seized or blown. But the car still hit boost, just seemed to review up slower. I pulled over, pulled the filter off and checked the turbo. It spun freely and has a little bit of play, but I don't think its enough to really affect performance. Next I replaced the spark plugs with NGK BRK7Es gapped to .30. It seemed to run the exact same. I drove it down the road and gave it gas and it sounded like it was spark knocking badly. I took off the timing cover and valve cover and from what I could tell, the timing seemed fine and the belt wasn't missing any teeth. After I put it back together it was misfiring really badly. I replaced the camshft position sensor, the crank sensor, and the 2-3 coilpack. Now its back to what is was when I started it yesterday. It idles fine, but when giving it any gas, it revs really slow and sluggish and the intake sounds is a lot louder than normal. At this point I'm not sure what is wrong with it. Replaced two sensors, coil pack, and plugs.

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Any help would be greatly appreciated. Any questions just ask. Thanks guys.

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Old 10-27-2017, 09:42 PM
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Update: Checked the timing with a timing light and fixed timing at 10° in Tunerstudio and it's dead on 10. Also just did a compression test. Has 180 on all 4 cylinders. I have no idea what it could be...
It still feels like it's misfiring, maybe not consistently though. When I rev it, it seems to not want to go over around 2500 and starts to spark knock/ping.
Here's another video of it running along with a Ignition log that I have no idea how to read:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/fsQPBdAHtCMRGEyi2
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Your fuel pump has failed.
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Update: Got the car running a day after posting this. Turns out the car jumped timing. I guess the timing light is inaccurate if the car isn't in time (obviously......I'm an idiot). No clue how this even happened, but I pulled the timing cover, crank pulley and everything off and sure enough, it wasn't in time. I didn't even look to see which gear was out, I was in a hurry to fix it. But I re-timed everything, put everything back together, and it ran perfect! Thanks sixshooter for the suggestion, but the car was running rich, so I never assumed it would be the fuel pump.

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