[s-cars] Engine Trouble..

[Jan Nielsen]

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Hi!

Just got home from a weekend with track racing and stuff(i could'n run caus=
e my pro.shaft is still not aligned)
Earlier today the car misfired while is was parking it. and then it started=
 running on 3 or 4 cyllinders only... had big trouble getting it started bu=
t it started after a while and there was still a few cyllinders not firerin=
g=2E.. so i revd it up to 4000 rpm and kept it there for a while and then i=
t was all good again so i shut of the engine and left the car.. so 4 hours =
later i was going for a drive and started the car... sheeesh.. the where re=
ally loud engie sounds.. almost sounded like a valve was hit or not having =
any oil in it.. i turned the ignition off again... and tried again.. same n=
oices.. the car started but was really hard to rev up... the sound dissapea=
red the moment the car started. so i just let idle for a while and after a =
few minustes it ran well again no misfirering at all... so me and my gf got=
 in the car to drive home.. it misfired a few times in the start, but ran v=
ery well all the 120 km we had to drive.. it maybe one or 2 misfirerings.. =
theres is no power loss and the engine sounds great.. i ran it hard to se i=
f it misfired several times.. but never misfired during acceleration... if =
i am cruising and it starts msfirering it stops if i floor it....

The car has never ever had a misfire since i bought it, so i find it strang=
e that suddenly started doing this today..

Anyone have some advice??

i was just down starting it again now after it has been parked for 3 hours.=
. there was a metallic sound and it ran like a bucket of crap at first.. bu=
t suddenly it rund well..

Could it be the spark plugs??

Appreciate any help.

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