Loss of power in my 99 SH, help!
06-27-2005 | 08:59 AM
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Loss of power in my 99 SH, help!
Hey guys,
I was hoping to get some insight as to why my 99 SH Lude isn't pulling like it used to/should. The car is completly stock except for an AEM cold air, installed this past Jan. (Christman present
) I don't beat on the car, and in fact, all my friends say I baby it compared to how they'd drive it. The problem is, I just got rear ended, and so the car's in the shop. While it's being fixed, I'm driving a rental. The rental I got was a Chrysler Sebring, 4 cyl, and it puller HARDER than my Lude, which is all sorts of wrong. Can anybody give me some advice as to what I could look into, tweak, or fix that would put the life back in my Lude??? HELP!!!
I was hoping to get some insight as to why my 99 SH Lude isn't pulling like it used to/should. The car is completly stock except for an AEM cold air, installed this past Jan. (Christman present
) I don't beat on the car, and in fact, all my friends say I baby it compared to how they'd drive it. The problem is, I just got rear ended, and so the car's in the shop. While it's being fixed, I'm driving a rental. The rental I got was a Chrysler Sebring, 4 cyl, and it puller HARDER than my Lude, which is all sorts of wrong. Can anybody give me some advice as to what I could look into, tweak, or fix that would put the life back in my Lude??? HELP!!!
06-27-2005 | 02:11 PM
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It doesn't necessarily mean your car is slower than the Sebring even though it feels like it pulls harder. I have been in a lot of cars that felt like they were pulling harder and going faster than my lude but I look down and I am only doing 40. For what its worth read this article http://www.speedoptions.com/articles/3519/ . That might help explain what I am getting at. There actually could be something wrong thought I am just saying this might ease some of your fear. Good luck to your lude anyhow.
06-28-2005 | 04:28 AM
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Maybe you do need to beat on it a little, run it hard after it's warm. (won't take long in the crappy weather we've been having lately.) If I havn't really gotten on mine for awhile, just driving normal, I notice a little lag. If I beat on it for a little bit I notice a little more pep in her. 
blow the carbon right out of those valves :driving:
Also, when did you start noticing this? We've had some damn humid days as of late, which don't do an intake well. (I work in wilmington, I know the weather
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blow the carbon right out of those valves :driving: Also, when did you start noticing this? We've had some damn humid days as of late, which don't do an intake well. (I work in wilmington, I know the weather
)
06-29-2005 | 08:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Unlimitation
Maybe it's the fact that you can't admit the Chrysler Sebring is faster than your Prelude. I too, have a Prelude so don't get me wrong here.
What planet are you from? :slap: