well my story is that i'm going to lose it pretty soon, this problem is driving me nuts, i went to the track today and noticed something odd, when i would launch the fuucking check engine light would come on when its wheel hopping just for a instant like a flash, then my car would bog like no other as if i hit a rev limiter early and HARD, would jeak the **** out of me, then it would go away after the wheel hop stopped and it would regain its speed, then i would grab second then wheel hop a bit in that gear then it would do it again, BOOM flashes check engine light then go away then resume to pick up speed again. Can someone please help me out its very frusterating, at the track me and some guys were trying to figure it out, thinking it was a loose ground and the car would just vibrate the **** out of it, guess it wasn't that, i tried another guys computer and still did it, so i ruled those out, and was thinking it was cause i was really low on gas, so after a pass i went to go put some gas, and it still did it so if anyone has any info on how to get rid of it or fix it i would greatly appreciate it.




Modified by SPNFEDEH at 12:52 AM 2/11/2006

 

 

please help, i tried it a lil while ago on my street (yea i know its bad) but it didn't do it, seems to only do it when im on sticker ground (hence the track, more rubber laid down) and i'm going to be boosting really soon, and now its like how can i get good runs if my car is doing this??? please help

 

change your distributor first and try it again.

 

 

bump for some help

 

You didn't say what year your car was but if the engine managment has misfire detection it is possible (I'm theorizing here) that the computer is detecting crankshaft speed variation when it starts to wheel hop and is cutting fuel as a safeguard until it detects that crankshaft speed is normal again and then it resumes fuel again. Misfire detection does work like this but I am not sure that wheel hop would cause it. Did you check to see if it has any codes stored? You should be able to hook up a scanner and watch for misfires when launching (assuming the engine management has this capability).

 

the car is a 92 hatch, i have tried to retieve the code, thinking its in the ECU memory but nothing is there