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[BrendanC]

Please tell me you did check and adjust as required the valves when you had that cover off?

Trany fluid needs to get hot enough to boil off condensation moisture. Trany fluid expands and contracts with temp change and drawa ambient air in to make up volume difference when it cools and contracts. Some of the moisture in that air condenses out as water and accumulates in the trany. If not removed it can rust parts and delaminate clutch material by dissolving glue. That causes trany failure. This is why it is important to have trany fluid get hot enough to boil off moisture once in a while.

i didn’t adjust the valves, i do intend on doing so. i didn’t have the time on the day i did the valve cover gasket.
transmission temps can still get to 180-185. important to note that, that is sump temperature and not the temperature leaving the torque converter. doing 80mpg yesterday had the transmission sitting at 176°.

 

[DannyM]

still has no power between 2k-2.5k rpm.

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Did you test your TPS ? .. This guy is on a Jeep but has one of the best vids on it..

 

[BrendanC]

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Did you test your TPS ? .. This guy is on a Jeep but has one of the best vids on it..

tps was good. i’m worried about MAF readings.

 

[JimPghPA]

spark plugs are brand new Denso Iridium TT, Brand new Hitachi MAF, cleaned MAP. over 2500rpm the power comes in hot and heavy but you can be to the floor between 2k-2.5k and it won’t go anywhere

I wonder if the trany is staying in too high of a gear? Try pulling out with it in L if it has that option.

 

[BrendanC]

I wonder if the trany is staying in too high of a gear? Try pulling out with it in L if it has that option.

it doesn’t depend on gear. it’s weird, has all the power in the world under 2k and over 2.5k. just no power inbetween those.

 

[loneryder]

the STP S7317 that came off of it after purchase

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Nothing a few oil changes won't clean up.

 

[BrendanC]

well, against my better judgement i ran a carfax on the car… the no power under 2500rpm may just be from being plain worn out. everything else functions wonderfully. i will continue to keep this engine running as long as i can. i have to figure if it is the original engine, it has to be around 375k miles now.

 

[AZjeff]

It lost 200k miles somewhere??

 

[BrendanC]

It lost 200k miles somewhere??

seller must have swapped a gauge cluster in. lesson learned on cash private party car buying. oh well, i’ll just keep driving it. i’ve already logged a thousand miles on it since purchase.

 

[BrendanC]

oil cooler showed up today just in time for a hurricane so i don’t know when i’ll get around to doing the install.

 

[BrendanC]

was going to throw the oil cooler on today but houston weather decided otherwise.

i scored a Dorman replacement fan assembly on closeout from rock auto last week for $52. the OEM fans were very loud and the bearings were quite crunchy. i installed them right before it started raining.

as for oil consumption, the car has now used a total of 1.5 quarts over 2k miles. i topped up with 0.5 quart HPL EC30. going to continue this until the sump makes it to 6k miles. i will then dump it and fill fully with HPL PCEO 5w-40. if it continues to burn it at this rate, the next OCI will get whatever the cheapest euro 0w-40 is off the shelf until it blows up. i can get a running engine and transmission locally for 1-1.5k and will swap one in when the time comes. the rest of the car is too nice to let it go.

oddly enough even with it probably being down on compression, it still averages 24ish hand calculated MPG doing 80-90 down the freeway to and from work.

 

[BrendanC]

oil cooler from a kia optima installed plumbed through the throttle body heater lines.

 

[AZjeff]

Just curious if you've ever bought a car that didn't require this level of restoration?

 

[BrendanC]

Just curious if you've ever bought a car that didn't require this level of restoration?

i purchased my silverado with 60k miles on it. only thing it really required when i bought it was a front end. 4wd swapped it around 140k miles and did a youtube based transmission rebuild.water pump went out around there and it got ebay drilled and slotted rotors then aswell. lifted it 160k miles and replaced the front end again. the OE reman torque converter went out at 190k, replaced with a triple disc billet yank. put a texas speed cam, valve springs, melling HV HP oil pump and timing set at 200k. at 230k miles i had the transmission fully built and torque converter refreshed. replaced the OE starter a few months ago as it was failing to engage everytime. it is at 237k now. doesn’t burn or leak any oil and gets driven like it was stolen any time i drive it.

to take it back to the question, i refuse to have a car note, i can easily afford one but i could care less about having a new vehicle. all the fancy bells and whistles are just things to fail later on. not to mention how difficult it has become to work on modern vehicles. the only two new vehicles i would consider would be a GM 6.6L L8T powered 3/4 ton or a new accord with the 2.4L in it. you couldn’t hand me the keys to a new stelanis, FOMOCO, nissan, or toyota etc. i would give them back.

 

[BrendanC]

i don’t know why i waited so long, but i monitored spark advance and knock retard. the entire time the engine is between 2 and 2.5k rpm it’s pulling 9.5°. replaced the knock sensor with a genuine Honda unit aswell as 4 reman fuel injectors, no change. VTC solenoid and VTEC solenoid block is here and will be going on saturday. if this doesn’t do anything i’m going to adjust the valves. if that doesn’t do anything probably put a cheapo ebay cat on it to see if the cat is plugged up.

 

[We're Metals]

Do you have a scan tool which can measure the fuel trim levels? I would be curious to know if this has 375,000 miles on the original fuel pump and if the in tank filter is just so plugged up from the years of use. That being said, that valvetrain looks amazing for the miles this thing has.

I wouldn't be adding so much complexity in remote oil filters and oil catch cans personally but to each their own.

 

[BrendanC]

Do you have a scan tool which can measure the fuel trim levels? I would be curious to know if this has 375,000 miles on the original fuel pump and if the in tank filter is just so plugged up from the years of use. That being said, that valvetrain looks amazing for the miles this thing has.

I wouldn't be adding so much complexity in remote oil filters and oil catch cans personally but to each their own.

long term fuel trims before i reset them 2 days ago were 1.05 after 2k miles. the transmission ends up riding the converter a lot due to the no power in low rpm ranges so even with the remote cooler/filter it still ends up at 186-190 so i’d hate to know what it would be without it. catch can after 2k miles had quite a bit of oil in it so im glad i added it.

 

[loneryder]

Those look kinda like 2017 wheels. What size are they.

They look likw Mercedes wheels.

 

[jhs914]

I don't like the looks of this cam lobe.

 

[BrendanC]

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I don't like the looks of this cam lobe.

yea im not a fan of it either but it isn’t worth doing anything about. the engine runs like a sewing machine minus the lack of power down low. if i can get a year out of it ill be happy.