Hey Rob,

Thanks for the link.

I don't know, the car seems fine now. It's hard to believe that a filthy air filter choked the engine intermittently, but certainly cleaning it helped.

I now run up to redline in the first 2 gears daily at every opportunity on my commute to work. So far, so good.

Kerry

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