Since life has been good and many things are changing I have let my ride sit for to long, but in a garage out of the weather and kept clean. I went to start it and in a few minutes it started to glow, the converter that is red hot.. I I let it cool, yanked teh converter and gutted it.. I rahter have a cat in place than no cat Went to start it and it did not glow but the car runs like crap now.. I also put new o-rings on the injectors.. It sounds like it is missing badly.. Also when it runs there is no brake vaccum, the pedal sinks to the floor... On the plus side in 1.5 years I put less than 100 miles on it and it is spotless and is taken care of I just want to run every Friday at the strip this winter and it has to run right...

 

Did you try running the car with the cat-back unhooked? Maybe pieces of the cat are blocking your exhaust.

How's the fuel pressure? Can't an excessively lean condition cause headers to glow red-hot? Maybe the same caused your cat to glow.

Are you sure you mean "no brake vacuum"? If there was no vacuum, the pedal would be hard to push to the floor. Did you somehow get air into your master cylinder? Try blocking off the vacuum line to the brake booster with something, and try starting the car again; see if anything changes. You should get a "hard" pedal back, and if the booster was leaking vacuum, the car should run great.


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-Tom P (Hot rodded 1986 Firebird 2.8l)

 

It is like a Rock to get it down is what I meant, but it seems like it goes all the way to the floor or starts there...