So,
After a long long time, I have finally come to the M20 section for your thoughts.
Last year I installed a Bimmerheads cylinder head with a 280/274 regrind, HD rockers, etc with ARP studs and a lightly ported intake manifold in hopes to pep the car up a bit.
There was no reason behind this repair, the car ran perfectly fine beforehand.
The problem that has caused me to lose all interest in the car, is that simply, after the swap, the car has no balls. Runs fine, compression is fine, starts fine, idle is a hair choppy bit figured that was normal for the cam.
Everything was replaced with fresh stuff. Plugs, timing verified several times, etc. This isn't my first rodeo, checked for vacuum leaks, etc. Install went very smooth.
The car is still crazy down on power and I have no idea why. It feels like its under load all the time. Just to accelerate normally you have to really put your foot in it. But it's not slow enough to say "there is something very badly wrong".........there's just enough to notice, "I don't think something is right".
Only other mods are magnaflow catback and an SSSquid chip.
If the HG didn't seat properly (despite good compression) could that cause it to be just barely down on power?
Intake manifold runners being ported causing improper fuel atomization?
I put the car away because I was kind of sick of it. And I want to fix it, because it is a very nice car.
Anyway, if you guys have any thoughts, let me know.
After a long long time, I have finally come to the M20 section for your thoughts.
Last year I installed a Bimmerheads cylinder head with a 280/274 regrind, HD rockers, etc with ARP studs and a lightly ported intake manifold in hopes to pep the car up a bit.
There was no reason behind this repair, the car ran perfectly fine beforehand.
The problem that has caused me to lose all interest in the car, is that simply, after the swap, the car has no balls. Runs fine, compression is fine, starts fine, idle is a hair choppy bit figured that was normal for the cam.
Everything was replaced with fresh stuff. Plugs, timing verified several times, etc. This isn't my first rodeo, checked for vacuum leaks, etc. Install went very smooth.
The car is still crazy down on power and I have no idea why. It feels like its under load all the time. Just to accelerate normally you have to really put your foot in it. But it's not slow enough to say "there is something very badly wrong".........there's just enough to notice, "I don't think something is right".
Only other mods are magnaflow catback and an SSSquid chip.
If the HG didn't seat properly (despite good compression) could that cause it to be just barely down on power?
Intake manifold runners being ported causing improper fuel atomization?
I put the car away because I was kind of sick of it. And I want to fix it, because it is a very nice car.
Anyway, if you guys have any thoughts, let me know.
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