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RE: MR-2 stops running at 5500 rpm???

To: "'Smokerbros@aol.com'" <Smokerbros@aol.com>, autox@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: MR-2 stops running at 5500 rpm???
From: Kevin McCormick <ktm@Unify.Com>
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 12:57:33 -0800
Well, if this were a first gen MR2, I'd say you'd slipped a timing belt
tooth on one of the camshafts (happened to us at a road race - figured it
out _after_ changing the fuel pump.)

Kevin McCormick

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Smokerbros@aol.com [mailto:Smokerbros@aol.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 08, 1999 12:41 PM
> To: autox@autox.team.net
> Subject: MR-2 stops running at 5500 rpm???
> 
> 
> Well, our C/Stock MR-2 pulled a new one today.  At 5500 rpm, 
> it suddenly goes
> flat and sounds very sour, not the "bump-bump-bump" of the 
> rev limiter, but
> sort of the same effect as far as acceleration - IT STOPS 
> HAPPENING!  And
> before you say "Yeah, MR-2s run out of power at about 
> 5500..."  it's much more
> dramatic than just the normal running out of power.  We've 
> seen that before,
> it's really unhappy.  Plugs look fine, maybe a bit lean, no 
> "Check Engine"
> light, or codes stored in the computer, and we've picked up a bit of
> detonation at part throttle acceleration at the same time.
> 
> Any ideas???
> 
> CHD
> 

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