phishfi
02-23-2010, 04:56 PM
First off, I'd like to say hello to everyone. This is my first post on turbo-mopar, although I've been posting on turbododge for about a month now. I can't wait to get my '85 Shelby Charger up to show quality (which is will be by the end of the year). My wife owns an '86 Daytona with the C/S Package, and we should be adding an '87 Shelby Charger to the "family" before October.
At first I thought this issue wasn't something common. What happens is whenever I give the car a lot of gas the entire engine drops power and the power loss light blinks. If I ignore the issue then the car revs from about 2500 to 3000 rpm and keeps accelling and then dropping again. I posted a video on youtube (titled 1985 Shelby Charger Engine Issue by username nicolasfinn). In any case, I was wondering if you guys might know what it is. It's obviously not the transmission slipping, because it's affecting the engine's rpms more than anything else. Occasionally this issue doesn't happen, which I've found in the last week or so. One person has told me that he thinks there is a fuel system issue going on with the car, so I'm going to start by replacing my fuel filter, and then look more in depth into that possibility. The other possibility is an air intake leak. While I don't think it's anywhere in the vacuum lines, is there any easy way to find an air leak?
At first I thought this issue wasn't something common. What happens is whenever I give the car a lot of gas the entire engine drops power and the power loss light blinks. If I ignore the issue then the car revs from about 2500 to 3000 rpm and keeps accelling and then dropping again. I posted a video on youtube (titled 1985 Shelby Charger Engine Issue by username nicolasfinn). In any case, I was wondering if you guys might know what it is. It's obviously not the transmission slipping, because it's affecting the engine's rpms more than anything else. Occasionally this issue doesn't happen, which I've found in the last week or so. One person has told me that he thinks there is a fuel system issue going on with the car, so I'm going to start by replacing my fuel filter, and then look more in depth into that possibility. The other possibility is an air intake leak. While I don't think it's anywhere in the vacuum lines, is there any easy way to find an air leak?