91' Running Rough - ZR-1 Net Registry Forums

Bob Eyres · 03-11-2012

I just woke up the old beast (91' 66K mi., stock motor, original injectors.) after a few months sitting in the garage. After warmup it idles smoothly and drives normally with the power key off. But at half throttle and above it feels down on power and there is a definite miss, (a sort of flatulence

I always run it with the power key on, (and I'm always winding it up, so it just doesn't need to be "blown out"

. It wasn't until I shut the power key off today that I could clearly feel that there's a problem with the secondary induction.
It's not like the secondaries are not opening, there's no vacuum problem. Before starting, it builds vacuum in about 3-4 seconds. When barely warmed up it had plenty of power to get sideways when I when to second gear, but later, I put the pedal down in third and fourth, and above 3K it's missing and chugging.

I put a bottle of Techron injector cleaner in the tank. So we'll see if that helps.

Any thoughts? Has this happened to you?

03-11-2012	#1
Bob Eyres Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Jupiter, Fl. Posts: 815	91' Running Rough I just woke up the old beast (91' 66K mi., stock motor, original injectors.) after a few months sitting in the garage. After warmup it idles smoothly and drives normally with the power key off. But at half throttle and above it feels down on power and there is a definite miss, (a sort of flatulence I always run it with the power key on, (and I'm always winding it up, so it just doesn't need to be "blown out" . It wasn't until I shut the power key off today that I could clearly feel that there's a problem with the secondary induction. It's not like the secondaries are not opening, there's no vacuum problem. Before starting, it builds vacuum in about 3-4 seconds. When barely warmed up it had plenty of power to get sideways when I when to second gear, but later, I put the pedal down in third and fourth, and above 3K it's missing and chugging. I put a bottle of Techron injector cleaner in the tank. So we'll see if that helps. Any thoughts? Has this happened to you? __________________ "It's about the car, not the people." 1991 ZR-1 White/Black #1236 (Owner since 1994). Stock engine with bolt-ons: Hurst shifter,"Forced Air" intake, Coplon duct, Bee Cool Radiator, Demon coils, Jeal prom, Watson headers, X pipe, 3" B&B's, Rippie flywheel, 4:10 gears, A molds, Toyo Proxes-R888's 12.06@117mph. 1.76 60ft.