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Message: <blockquote data-quote="95cvgt" data-source="post: 587456" data-attributes="member: 10750">**please take your time to read and respond if you have ANY advice, im tired of fighting my car and just want to get this fixed ASAP. i come to you guys because you very knowledgeable and with everyones combined experience, we should be able to solve this. thanks for all the help in advance everyone, you always come through**so my car has been giving me some hell recently, then again, when has it not? lol :angry7: syptoms:-at initial start up(when cold and has been sitting for hours), it runs richer then hell, and it has a really low idle(assuming from being so rich)-proceding on to driving, it has NO, none, zip, zero, nada power(DONT SAY MAF, cleaned it twice in two weeks) *to elaborate:   -you can smell how rich is running while in the car, it litterally burns my eyes  -i cant even feather the throttle to get rolling without it bogging down and threatening to stall out  -its like this in all gears, as soon as i shift the rpm drops to the floor before i can get it to the next gear  -by no power i mean studdering like crazy! im talking about bucking the a world class bull(it tends to smooth out higher in the rpms, but not very much-the strange: *after start up, and driving for appx. five minutes, everything is OK?!? it runs like its never had a problem in its life  -the transition from running bad to good is instant!? ill be giving it about 3/4 throttle in 2nd gear just trying to get up to 40 mph(takes about 15 to 20 secs.), and then i get whiplash and get thrown into my seat because it decides to run perfect  *the stanger: (ugh)  -you guessed it, it starts running like **** again. and then good and then bad and good. and continues this cycle for pretty much as long as im driving. just off and on. and im sometimes lucky enough to catch a good spell to where it doesnt run bad at all after the warm up periodfacts:-all these problems started a little over a month after the in/uninstall of everything below. prior to all of that it ran great-complete tune up done(plugs, wires, dist. cap, oil/filter, MAF)-installed full exhaust headers to tips 3 months ago(BUT it ran fine for the first month with no hitches WHATSOEVER)-removed smog at the same time as ^^-removed EGR with above ^^(TO ALL YOU AGAINST THIS, again, it ran the best it ever has after the exhaust and removal of this stuff)-been using the same gas station for over a yearmy thoughts<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown    :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" />i have no mechanic experience besides the basics so dont mind my input, im just trying to offer suggestions)-first thing that comes to my mind is def. FPR. for it to be running so inconsistent, i wouldnt kno if those go bad it could cause something like this-timing is out of whack? doesnt make sense to me, i would think that it would always run bad and not be so off and on-needs a tune? how and why it would want to run bad now at a random time? it was just so out of the blue. running great for 9 months, then the next morning, boom. and hasnt been running good sense. thats about all i can come up with. i am open to ALL suggestions. if you got this far i appreciate it more then anything for taking your time to help me out. thanks :notworthy:</blockquote>