When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network.
Swapped out my stock 74mm throttle body with a Soler 74-78mm TB. Warmed up the motor and did a 30 minute, 20 mile drive for adaption. Ran nicely through RPM range to 7k and all is good. Drove back to the house and left the engine running while I jumped out to grab something out of my garage. The motor just quit. No warning. Just quit. Never happened before. Fired it back up and seemed to just be an anomaly. Fast forward 2 hours and I’m on the way to the airport. As I’m commanding 1/2 gas on first sharp acceleration command while merging onto a main artery road the car s just a slug. No oomph and the torque is gone. I couldn’t get the engine to rev past 5k RPM with full throttle. No CEL. Same symptoms with a/c on or off. VarioCam is working when it’s supposed to. Shoot! I’ll be able to trouble shoot more Saturday. I’ll run Durametric and probably disco the battery and reset the ECU. If I have any more issues I’ll throw the original TB on a go from there.
My initial thought is butterfly on the Soler not opening enough. Last thing touched stuff all checked, so temporarily at a loss. I’ll follow up soon.
Last edited by hatchetf15; 05-20-2021 at 10:16 PM.
Swapped out my stock 74mm throttle body with a Soler 74-78mm TB. Warmed up the motor and did a 30 minute, 20 mile drive for adaption. Ran nicely through RPM range to 7k and all is good. Drove back to the house and left the engine running while I jumped out to grab something out of my garage. The motor just quit. No warning. Just quit. Never happened before. Fired it back up and seemed to just be an anomaly. Fast forward 2 hours and I’m on the way to the airport. As I’m commanding 1/2 gas on first sharp acceleration command while merging onto a main artery road the car s just a slug. No oomph and the torque is gone. I couldn’t get the engine to rev past 5k RPM with full throttle. No CEL. Same symptoms with a/c on or off. VarioCam is working when it’s supposed to. Shoot! I’ll be able to trouble shoot more Saturday. I’ll run Durametric and probably disco the battery and reset the ECU. If I have any more issues I’ll throw the original TB on a go from there.
My initial thought is butterfly on the Soler not opening enough. Last thing touched stuff all checked, so temporarily at a loss. I’ll follow up soon.
New motor mounts (looked like the original mounts...car rides so much better now. Also bolted on the 'amazon' Fabspeed super cup exhaust. Holy hell is it lout BUT IT IS AMAZING. Immediately took the car up Emmigration Canyon just outside of SLC, Utah. Just amazing. Highly recommend. But yeah...its loud.
The original paint of my 2/98 coupe has been treated with 303 products graphene coating, I liked it so much I did my 2019 F 150 and my wife’s amg. Anyway, it’s not cheap but I loved the results. Now I am going to test durability, they claim 1 year, I don’t know, let’s see how long it last on this Texas weather. I used to work selling and formulating these kind of products for professional detailers and car dealers at a commercial level. I’m really impress with this product specially when someone quoted $800 for a ceramic coat, 5 year warranty with a once a year reapplication. My 996 had taken me back to all the stuff I used to do with my cars when I was in my thirties, I just turned 53 and it is like a new hobby obsession for me.
This stuff works on glass
and wheels.
Last edited by 3/98 911 coupe; 05-23-2021 at 09:18 AM.
Reason: Photos
05-20-2021 | 10:12 PM
