I know you guys are LT1 experts but I am sure you can give me a little guidance in tracking down a miss in my car.
Recently my car has been intermittently cutting out - not stalling - but under acceleration you can feel it cut out. At times at Wot it will back fire. 95% of the time it is fine - hard to pinpoint it. There are no SES codes - I scanned it. I had the guy who tuned the car ride along and he scanned / recorded the drive with Hp tuners. The car seemed to be running fine. MAF checked out OK as did the timing (getting 28 degrees at WOT). A/F looked good. It did miss a couple of times and he could see it on the graphs but could not pinpoint why - it would show the miss and it was picking up knock and cutting timing. I suspected bad gas and replaced the fuel filter - ran through some gas treatment and have been very picky on the gas I am using recently (I have always used 93+ but from time to time got "discount" gas). I have new plugs to install (still on stock ones but only have 30K miles on them) but I am not sure what else to check. Coil pack, fuel pump, fuel injector, collapsing lifter?? Any suggestions appreciated!
Recently my car has been intermittently cutting out - not stalling - but under acceleration you can feel it cut out. At times at Wot it will back fire. 95% of the time it is fine - hard to pinpoint it. There are no SES codes - I scanned it. I had the guy who tuned the car ride along and he scanned / recorded the drive with Hp tuners. The car seemed to be running fine. MAF checked out OK as did the timing (getting 28 degrees at WOT). A/F looked good. It did miss a couple of times and he could see it on the graphs but could not pinpoint why - it would show the miss and it was picking up knock and cutting timing. I suspected bad gas and replaced the fuel filter - ran through some gas treatment and have been very picky on the gas I am using recently (I have always used 93+ but from time to time got "discount" gas). I have new plugs to install (still on stock ones but only have 30K miles on them) but I am not sure what else to check. Coil pack, fuel pump, fuel injector, collapsing lifter?? Any suggestions appreciated!
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