[VR4 Playa]

ok... so turns out it was "bad gas".... drove the car around for the heck of it today and after about 5-10 mins it started running smoothly again, still need to swap out the plugs for the NGK V Powers(that need to be cleaned btw), but then i'm good to go....

worst part is there's so much I want/need to do to this thing to get it back up to speed, obviously #1 is fix the passenger door lock so that it's no longer jimmy-rigged to pop open after the handle is pulled twice....

but other stuff that needs attention... 2nd and 5th synchro, carrier bearings, right front ball joint??(was told by a shop a LONG time ago that the boot was going bad, figured it was just a ploy to get more money... knock on wood, that's all it was), IAC motor??(idle sputters when in neutral and brake and/or clutch are depressed and car dies if AC is not on)

and then there's my plethora of electrical gremlins, an excess draw or short I think might be the solution to all, as well as the idle problem that could also be a vacuum leak related issue... first off is the missing headunit which WILL be replaced by either my brother or his friend Scott, but then there's the ones I've been living with... the longest being the power mirrors which went out after the dealership "fixed" the short in the motor for the pop-up lights 6yrs ago, why fixed is in parenthesis is 'cause about a yr later the pop-up motor shorted out again and I know this since the lights would occasionally pop up if I disconnected the battery to reset the ECU or do some type of work on the car....

also along those lines I think the anti-theft system, which must've shorted out after the attempted break-in at U of I(see jimmy-rigged door handle)...

finally on the electric front... after doing the steering rack the 2 main electrical components on the steering column... the horn and the cruise control both went out....

so yea... sounds like a LOT of work, but after all I've been through w/ this car, nothing's too much and well, it would just be a waste of time to not get it back up to speed....

and then way down the road of course... paint-job(which it is needing more and more every day), new seats(front passenger is still pretty good, driver... well, I've seen worse), full system(amp and speakers), and finally turbo upgrade and BBK....