Alright my freind is a complete idiot. Here is what he did to his camaro. He has a 94' camaro 6 speed. It has air shocks, a $7 resisitor that plugs into his air box sensor, & a generic cold air intake off ebay. After installing this $7 resistor he got off of ebay this is what happen to his car. It started to hesitate while taking off in first gear. In second at higher rpm, and all the other gears when accelerating. The car now backfires and he beleives the car missfires. I told him to do the following remove the resistor and unplug the battery for 15 min. He did that and plugged the battery back in for 15 minutes. He still had the same problem. Also his stick jerks around while driving, it shakes alot. Does any one have the same problem? We live in san diego, ca do you know camaro specific techs that could fix this? I never heard of a $7 part that would make 20 HP instantly. Supposibly this little wire with silicone in the middle makes the sensore in the airbox think the air/fuel ratio was perfect. Anyways that is removed and the car is still messed up.
Any ideas on why?

 

Oh yeh, I forgot to tell you his radiator coolant spray every where because of some leak or something.

 

this is probably the reason, are his plug wires old?

 

He said he replaced his spark plug wires 3,000 miles ago

 

I also just found out a while ago he gutted his cats but his car did not start acting up intill after the antifreeze sprayed every where.

 

Could have got the opti wet and ****ed it up, shifter shaking like crazy is most likely a missfire. Happened to me more than once.

 

He's killing the opti.

 

When hell is full, the optis will walk the earth.

 

aint that the damn truth

He is definatly killing his opti, needs to fix the radiator... and he shouldnt need to be told that..:blah:

 

Since it is hurricane season in florida, I ran through a couple of puddles the week before last on my way home from work. Start up the car the next day and whaddaya know, it idles down to 500, and starts missing through the rpm ranges. My G-Tech Performance meter (ok, my brother) and me both agree that the car is slower. Is it the optispark? I think so. I really wish there was a replacement for that piece of junk.

 

http://www.dynotech-eng.com/dynaspark.htm

 

has anyone had a dynaspark in their car and really put it through the paces?

when I searched through all the lt1 forums I could find last year when my opti imploded, it seemed like the dynaspark was the least used "opti helper".

it does seem to be a better deal since you are getting a new optical portion and an improved distributor in one, whereas with the ltcc or delteq you are up the river if your existing optical portion is messed up.

 

if i ever need a opti, i am getting a dynaspark

one thing i think is the price