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lack of power need some help

Old 01-11-16, 07:25 PM
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Default lack of power need some help

so the motor has 173k on it, perfect compression but for some reason when i get on the gas it loud but doesn't pull hard. When i bought the motor from the guy he said he changed the spark plugs not long ago but to be quite honest i never bothered to pull or check them. Could it be possibly due to bad spark plugs? of course i'd have to pull them out which i will do tomorrow morning, any other things i need to check out?
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coil pack?
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Originally Posted by lateralnw
coil pack?
well you might mean the coils but if those were bad i'd imagine the car to be misfiring which it isn't, just feels slow
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^My SC had a bad ignition coil and it ran smoothly. Just was really hard to accelerate, took a really long time, and got 9MPG's.
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Originally Posted by SC400slide
^My SC had a bad ignition coil and it ran smoothly. Just was really hard to accelerate, took a really long time, and got 9MPG's.
yea? maybe i can hit the junkyard this week and get some to see if anything changes
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