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Message: <blockquote data-quote="98green5.4" data-source="post: 749040" data-attributes="member: 11312">alright. been a few months since an update, would like some thoughts.. i haven't drove the car in months, been running bad, just basically put it on the back burner.i really want to get my car going. i hate to say it, but i'm just getting tired of not having "my" car, and i don't mind driving my dads car, but it's just like i said, not really my car and I've had it for atleast a year and a half. she needs to wake up!haha. anyways. i was doing some research on the open/ closed loop on the o2's and people were saying stuff about the air pumps (oem airpumps on 96-98 4v's) and how they can make the car run rich (which makes perfect sense now that i considered this as a problem)every time i went to check the spark plugs they were flat black burnt looking. just terrible. well it makes perfect sense why they would be if the o2's lying basically, making the car run extremely rich without the stock air pumps. then its just kills the plugs, which makes it have this bad stutter/misfire feel.what do you guys think?-Blake</blockquote>