I have a fmic, boost gauge, tt, and thats it I am set up w/ turbosmart recirc bov. on the belt way after 30 mins of driving in 5th my car will not go above 3500 rpm's and I can almost watch the fuel gauge decrease. The car stutters and jumps till I let off, then down shift and creep past 3500 I don't know whats going on ! any thoughts?
engine get's "STUCK" at 3500 rpm's
- Thread starter djtest
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no problems like that whatsoever in my stock unflashed msp....I can be at 1k in 5th and accelerate to redline with minimal "bucking" though there is a slight decrease in power between 3-3.5k. Did the car act like that stock or only after you modded?
this is what happened to me at protege fest..... wheel hopped so bad one of my ic pipes came off.... wouldnt go above 3k rpm (when turbo spools).
Recheck all the couplers on your hard pipes and fmic..... recheck all vaccum hoses.... if you have a bov thats recirc, check the fitting.
Sounds like the exact symptoms of having something disconnected in the FMIC/Intake area. Turbo tries to spool.... bogs.... nothing over 3500.... downshift and get above it (turbo needs not spool) slow down a bit and try to pick back up speed and boggs again.
Recheck all the couplers on your hard pipes and fmic..... recheck all vaccum hoses.... if you have a bov thats recirc, check the fitting.
Sounds like the exact symptoms of having something disconnected in the FMIC/Intake area. Turbo tries to spool.... bogs.... nothing over 3500.... downshift and get above it (turbo needs not spool) slow down a bit and try to pick back up speed and boggs again.
my friends has a teg and he's the same way.........but don't sleep on them they can be made quick....sad thing is I had a girl prove it to me. She had a black grill on the bottom part of her bumper to replace the stock one. No kit no thing. She also had a boost gauge hidding in her stock gauge cluster, and the grill kept me from seeing her intercooler. You can use your imagination from there. It was cool though, we stopped at a gas station and she still liked the speed better. 
i have been having this almost exact same problem but i notice something else. i can get it past 3.5krpms but it doesnt want to. like 1st gear i can take it up to 6k no problem what so ever. 2nd gear it hits 3.5, feels im riding the breaks, but then picks up again around 5.5k rpms. same with 3rd and 4th and 5th. but heres what confuses the hell out of me. it doesnt do it all of the time. like if it did this consistantly i wouldnt be AS upset, because i know there is proably a simple reason. but like sometimes my 2nd and 3rd just blast me off like a rocket, other times it does the whole bogging down thing.
