Alright, so some of you have heard about my car acting up when I was out last night at woodward. Here's the story, form what I tell you, throw some ideas on what you think might be happening.

Thursday:

* First, I took off WOT at a light, and man the car was bogged and took off like ****. I mean it was REALLY bad, Angie and I both were surprised at how slow it was. It was horrible.
* Like a dumbass, when I got to the meeting spot at 12 and Woodward, I revved it really high sounding like a ricer, then threw it into drive without letting the RPMs go back down, so I chirped the gears.
* Angie and I were driving back from the Heritage Museum, I was getting ready to turn onto Ryan Road from 18.5 mile, and I hit the gas pretty good... not WOT but still pretty good. The car made a loud POP noise, I could feel it in the pedal... it reminded me of like if the gas pedal was caught on something and I popped it back into place. After it did that, I had lurked into the street so I put it into reverse and backed up so I wasn't sticking out, then when I had the chance and tons of room, I babied my car the quarter of a mile home. It felt ok, didn't seem to be anything wrong.

Friday:

* Drove the car to work, seemed to be driving ok.
* Drove the car home, seemed to be driving ok.
* Drove the car to Woodward, after about 20 minutes of driving it and making it to Woodward, I noticed that if I really hit the gas, I got a shaking feeling in the pedal and the car was just running like ****... real bogged down.
* When I was talking to Will and revving it trying to get that feeling in the pedal again, it was in park so I don't know if that makes any difference, but DAMN the exhaust was rich.
* My RPMs at idle were at the .5 mark, not even idling at 1 which I thought it used to idle at the 1 line.
* Drove it home, it drove ok for awhile and then by the time I got close to home it started acting up again. Seems like this only happens when the car really warms up. I also noticed that the shuttered boggy feeling is when it's in 2nd gear, once it shifts from 2nd into 3rd and higher gears, it goes away and it seems to drive ok.

A buddy of mine said that it sounds like EGR. He said 3.4s were notorious for EGR problems and that it's the EGR valve sticking in place, and that the popping noise was the exhaust fumes blowing the valve open. I don't know jack about mechanical things or the engine, so I have no idea.


With that said, anyone have any ideas? I tried the paperclip trick for the OBD-I port to get it to blink the codes in the SES light, and it just stayed solid.. no blinks.

 

Ignition Module?