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Hey Rob,
Will do that. Also gonna check the K&N (which I haven't cleaned in 3 years!!) and maybe the fuel filter as well.
Maybe, just maybe, then I'll stop drooling over the RX-8 article I have sitting on the kitchen table.
I was having a hard time getting out of 1st gear today. Foot to the floor, it took about 5-6 seconds to hit redline! And no, I don't have 1600 lbs of concrete in the trunk either.
Kerry
99 SVT Contour Silver Frost, #365/2760, DMD
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Originally posted by kerrychin:
Did you get a CEL for the DPFE sensor? I did, around the same mileage as you (long time ago).
Kerry
My CEL did come on. Of course it was three days after my Aircare test. Waste of $50.
One problem I had was at my mechanic. We tried two different SNAP-ON code readers, both with different levels of software and I was able a data stream but no codes. We reset the CEL and it took a good week for it to happen again. Had me worried. I thought the computer might be hooped.
I ended up going to Brown Bros. for the repairs. They didn't seem to have a problem. Must be a Ford computer thing. The DPFE was working but had intermittent "brain farts". I had them print out the diagnostics report and the sensor was all over the map.
Mine was also doggin' it from 5000 to redline and I thought it was the newly installed DMD. But since the repairs it pulls like new, just smoother. They also updated the PCM to a later calibration.
Mucho Better Now.
'99 Silver Frost SVT #2602/2760
K&N, Eibachs, 17's, DMD, OBX Shifter (my bad), A6 Sidemarkers, CTA Intake/Pipe
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Glad you got it fixed (DPFE).
I cleaned the K&N last night and stuck it back in the airbox. Took 5 seconds to get out and 15 mins of wrestling to get back in. What a nasty thing. Made sure not to over-oil it.
Today the car pulls pretty hard and fast to redline. Not sure that was it, but the filter was dirty.
I get the feeling that my secondaries are intermittent, because last year I had the same problem and it was annoying.
- Kerry
99 SVT Contour Silver Frost, #365/2760, DMD
98 Audi A4 2.8 Quattro Tiptronic, 30V -- SOLD!
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Sorry to not help you with your engine lag, but do we know either of those 2 stock looking SVT's. Just wondering. Thanks.
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Kerry...have you figured out the problem yet? If it is your IMRC controller I just saw a deal in the classifieds! Some guy is selling a 2000 CSVT LIM with the IMRC box attached and only wants $75! Check it out here: http://www.contour.org/classifieds/classifieds.php?t=1&c=6
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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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98 Audi A4 2.8 Quattro Tiptronic, 30V -- SOLD!
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While I was in Vancouver I saw a Black SVT. With License plate CVA ---. Just curious as to who is could be?
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I finally cleaned my black SVT, so there should be no mistaking the colour....& my 18" Oz wheels.....I'm usually around
Cambie & King Ed, or commuting between Burnaby and Vancouver, via King Ed, Kingsway & CDA Way!.
2000 Black SVT #2639/2760; w/18 OZ Superleggera's, Pirelli Pzero Nero.
MSDS Headers,Quaife LSD, CF DF, Borla,,chipped,DMD,Baer Track rotors.
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If I do see this fine auto-mobile, what will it look like? Any pics...
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Hi, I think I saw you Guntaker going back to slurrey yesterday. I saw you since getting on the highway at Grandview with 2 ppl in the car, then you kinda lost me going in HOV hehe, but caught a bit of you getting of at the surrey exit. I am hoping this was you anyway  If I was in my car you would've seen me (I'da caught up) but I was unfortuantely coming home from my first and only day of work in 2 months.
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