This is located between the distributor and throttle body and it has a hollow black wire coming from it that was cut in half trying to figure out what this wire is? cause my car is idling and running like crap all of the sudden please help!!

 

Manifold vacuum to the hvac

 

so with that being cut in half that could be why my car is idling rough and will almost stall at heavy throttle?

 

http://www.ehow.com/info_7831407_sig...cuum-leak.html

 

You nailed it it's having trouble idling, and when you accelerate it stalls or pings really hard

 

Vacuum, just get a new line and you should be fine as long as that's the only problem.

 

So today i plugged that vacuum line and now i'm getting backfire through the tbi, flames and etc...

 

check your timing with the est disconnected

 

EST? and i did have a distributor change recently, the car was running but sounded like crap and now after plugging that vacuum the right way i get flame through throttle body

 

 

so basically disconnect the wiring to the distributor and re find tdc

 

warm the engine up and turn it off. Disconnect the est and restart the engine . Loosen and adjust the distributor while using a timing light. I believe the L03 is set to tdc . If your emissions tag is still present it will state the timing spec.

 

so you cannot adjust the timing with the electronics hooked up to the back of the distributor?

 

It's not supposed to be plugged its supposed to be reconnected

 

NO

 

i didn't know that sorry i don't know much about timing i had those connected when i was trying to find tdc

 

So that's probably why it's running like crap then? so unplug the electronics... re find tdc and replug in the electronics and the rotor should be pointing to the #1 cylinder?

 

yes, Hook your timing light on the number one spark plug wire.