Went into a SERIOUS forum hiatus...So here's the update!
Met a boy, he's awesome AND drives a mazda ((2thumbs))
As to my posts in October about my car driving like SHITTTTTTT
-The idles started to get much worse, they were so low on startup, they sunk in stop and go traffic, I was stalling out more often.
-We cleaned out my MAF, EGR (which was replaced this past spring), TB, Intake (which was brand new), & the Intake Filter (which was also brand new)
-Still ran like s***
-Replaced the semi new (American) EGR with the spare (Canadian) EGR I had that was BNIB.
-Ordered new Spark Plugs, Coil Packs, Wires w/ Boots
-Got the stuff on a Thursday
-Friday the car stalled 3 TIMES...3 TIMES IN FIFTEEN MINUTES on the way to my boyfriends house...
-We immediately started to work on the car we replaced the parts listed above, gapped all the plugs to spec, cleaned out everything.... AND THE CAR RAN WORSE
-We troubleshooted an put certain original parts in with new parts to see if we were given a dud part from Rockauto. No such luck.
-Picked up a can of Seafoam and ran it through my Intake. There wasn't as much smoke as we thought there should be coming out of the exhaust for my car sounding like a ******* go-cart on steroids. You could smell fuel coming from my exhaust.
-We threw a fresh tank of gas in the car (as the last gas i had in it was Hurricane Sandy gas). And added in a gallon of E85
-Still. Ran. Like. s***.
-Gave up and took it to a trusted shop that deals with all the cars in our club.
LOW AND BEHOLD....
I HAD A BAD WIRE IN MY HARNESS THAT WAS RUNNING TO MY COIL PACK THAT WAS FOR CYLINDERS 2 & 3.
He said the condition was terrible...and that I was lucky the thing didn't set on fire.
SO:
Anyone who is having the same weird idling and stalling out problem that I was...
Take it to a shop and stop cleaning your MAF, EGR, and TB...
It might be something you can't clean lol
My car was down for a week or so between the initial parts replacement and the shop so I got to use my boyfriends Miata for work and such.
Learned how to drive stick in 3 hours and now I am awesome at it.
I was really sad to say goodbye to the third pedal when I had to give it back to him.
Possible 5speed swap in the spring? Second car with manual transmission? Will most likely be happening this year haha!