1) It has serious cold-start issues. When I crank it, it starts right up, but usually sputters and dies a couple seconds later, unless I carefully blip the throttle. When I blip it, it causes the rpm to drop to around 300, then come back up to around 1000. It shakes the hell out of the car, too. It reads about 18 on the vac gauge under idle, once it's warm and idling smooth at 750. Timing is set to 15 w/ a timing light clamped onto a KA plug wire between the coil pack and the plug.
2) When driving, it runs fine and hard above about 3.5krpm. Below that, I can put the pedal on the floor in 1st, and it very, very slowly climbs to about 3, then takes off. I think that's due to a massive leak in my ghetto i/c piping though, and should go away when I put on the new, real piping. I have my o2 sensor plugged into the harness where I assume it goes, and the brown "o2 power sensor wire" that runs near the battery tray hooked up to a 12v power source (i.e. the 12v circuit that runs my fans, directly to the batt w/ a toggle switch). Where should it be hooked up? because I know that's not right.
3) I went out last night, and my battery was completely dead. I haven't driven or started it in a week and half, due to the fact that I couldn't walk down, or press pedals. Could that be due to my poor o2 wiring? All the other wiring is nicely done, I swear, I just didn't know where to put that o2
. 4) where's a good place to get the silicone or rubber hose couplings that adapt 2 1/4" i/c piping to the larger throttle body, and the smaller turbo outlet? And what size are both those?
Thanks for any help you can give me on these. I feel stupid asking such noobie questions.
