calvin280zxt

No smoke, didnt start again exept for the 100 rpm sputtering. Im thinking timing chain

Just insured my car and drove for like 15 minutes then all of a sudden a big backfire out the exhaust and its dead. Havent had time to diagnose much yet, has gas, fuel pump runs, injectors fire and it has spark. Stock turbo 82 just did hei conversion since it broke down last time. Any ideas? It sort of fires as if the ignition is super retarded ran at like 100 rpm. Any ideas?

Mine does that, runs fine at Operating temp and when cold, boggs in between. It comes on/off like a light switch

My parts car my fenders flew up like wings on the highway

My injectors are louder than my valves

2+2 ftw

I would run it for a week or two then change it and run a little bit in with each oil change 1/4 jug or so, 15-50 might be a liitle thick at startup contributing to the problem, i havent run any thicker oils though so im no expert

That is 99% a bad lifter/s try running a quart of ATF in the oil, sludge etc can cause this and atf Has a lot of detergents in it. If that doesnt work you need to find some lifters or a solid p90 head. I have cured 2 cars start up knocks with atf. Usually a day or two and its fixed

They are barely drivable with no turbo from my experience

I converted mine to 5 speed literally bolt in job did it in a weekend

Maybe brake stands are a canadian thing

Autos are god for brake stands

Bought an 82 s130 na 5 speed flintstone mobile for 100 bucks when i was 17, knew nothing about it. I actually bought it to crash up in the woods ended up loving it but it was so far gone. Can see all tires from inside the cab! Sold it for 400 bucks. Then bought it back a couple years later and drove it till tje shock towers poped through the hood! Always said id get another one if i found one and a couple years later i traded my car for an 82 turbo which i converted to a 5 speed and am in the process of restoring and making it fast

Those symptom sound like theres no vacuum id start under the hood, the manual has diagrams. The originals are color coded so you want to map it out and get it working then change the rotten lines out. Its pretty confusing but once you decide which part the "vacuum transducer" etc etc is its not to bad

Rotten vac lines Just fixed my own, except my cruise is only good for cold days now.. Heat goes higher the more gas it gives

Not on the turbos

Thats all cruise control stuff

Some have a power passenger side lock. When you unlock the drivers side ( with the key) the other side unlocks

Its going to rub any corosion Off of the 20+ pins that go to the ecu on this 30+ year old computer. Worked for me and lots of other people. Thats what

Unplug the computer a bunch of times

Unplug the computer a bunch of times

Had mine on the road for a while, until it broke down. Fixed a lot of rust not all but i lowered it so its out of sight lol. Just fixed it by doing an hei swap 1/10 the price of oem

Service manual is a good place to start

Thats what i was using