[V8] Help Diagnosing V8 Fuel Problem...

[Alan Kramer]

This car's symptoms are a little different than you describe.  It absolutely 
will not accelerate or go up hills, constant speeds like on a highway pose 
no problem.   This is also not subtle at all, it's very apparent, like one 
whole bank has stopped firing.  If it occurs when attempting to accelerate 
fast from a dead stop, the car will barely move...it would probably take 30 
seconds to hit 15 mph.  Also, it won't fix itself until you let the car come 
down to idle for a second or two.  Once it's "broke" it stays broke until 
you let off the gas completely and the engine returns to idle.

If you aren't getting any codes, then vagcom won't help you more.  Vagcom 
can tell you why the code happened (short to ground, short to +12, open 
circuit, etc...) which is pretty darn handy IF you have codes ;)   The other 
nifty thing about vacom is you can monitor some of the car's vitals in real 
time under the basic engine settings section.  Section D2-70 thru -90 of 
bentley is needed to know what you're looking at.

Alan
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Alan Kramer
http://www.geocities.com/audikramer

'83 CGT 20vt
'86 4kcsq
'90 V8q
'83 UrQ #519 (recipient)
'91 V8q (engine donor)

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