| GrueBlock | 03-01-2003 01:11 AM |
Running open-carb in the rain... need help
LOL, yeah, call me stupid but I was running open-carb (with no hood because I got in an accident and I'm thinking of buying an LS1 camaro, so I refuse to put any more money into my third gen F-body) on my '82 Z28 and I parked it... it rained for about 15 mins or so before I thought to put a bag over my carb at about 3am... so after the rain, I let the water evap or sit out (carb was totally closed but not water-tight I'm sure) I turned my car on a week later and it was running like shyt, no power, and coughing out black smoke... So I drove it about 10 miles, let it sit another couple days, then I pulled the spark plugs from the front 4 cylinders and stuck a compressor hose in there blowing at 130psi to blow the crap out, but I couldn't get the hose in there to reach the rear 4 cylinders, and I then went to run a 350z and to my suprise I lost... I have decent low-range power still but once I get into the 3500-5500 rpm range, I have little to no acceleration... I hear slight popping at the higher RPMs out of my carb and I'm guessing that it miss-fires at the higher rpms in the rear 4 cylinders... (for information: when I took the plugs out, they were coated black from carbon and when I blew the cylinders out, some crap came out... more than I would have thought... or maybe it was just stuff blowing around in my engine-bay) the engine has about 25000 miles on it and the plugs are no more than 4000 miles old. Any advice is appreciated and thank you in advance. | 