# car is running like poop..

**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/car-is-running-like-poop/203651
**Category:** PittSpeed Automotive
**Created:** [September 7, 2009, 12:32pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/car-is-running-like-poop/203651 "2009-09-07T12:32:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author: ![94gsr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/9/47e85d/32.png) [@94gsr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/94gsr)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2009, 12:32pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/car-is-running-like-poop/203651/1 "2009-09-07T12:32:09Z")

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So i got my gsr running again. it runs and drives fine till it is done with open loop. Then it runs like crap cutting out real bad under boost. The cel is saying its my iacv. Is it worth taking off and cleaning or should i just get another one? Is it a poss that thats not even the prob? It never did any of this before my icm and coil shit the bed. let me know thanks.

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### Author: ![matt94z](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/matt94z/32/6040_2.png) [@matt94z](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/matt94z)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2009, 3:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/car-is-running-like-poop/203651/2 "2009-09-07T15:46:26Z")

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Do you have the connectors mixed up? Some of the plugs are the same.

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### Author: ![94gsr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/9/47e85d/32.png) [@94gsr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/94gsr)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2009, 4:39pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/car-is-running-like-poop/203651/3 "2009-09-07T16:39:46Z")

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everything is just like it should… I triple checked averything again.

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### Author: ![imported\_gearhead](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/imported_gearhead/32/5957_2.png) [@imported\_gearhead](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/imported_gearhead)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2009, 5:54pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/car-is-running-like-poop/203651/4 "2009-09-07T17:54:32Z")

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easy iacv test… 12v and ground on either side. it will click and move one direction. reverse the terminals and it moves the other direction.

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### Author: ![bald1one](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9de053/32.png) [@bald1one](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bald1one)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2009, 8:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/car-is-running-like-poop/203651/5 "2009-09-08T08:38:52Z")

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if you at one point switched the iacv and iat pigtails you will fry both sensors…it just happened to me last winter. They will fit both

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### Author: ![dyingwish](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/dyingwish/32/6041_2.png) [@dyingwish](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/dyingwish)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2009, 9:28am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/car-is-running-like-poop/203651/6 "2009-09-08T09:28:38Z")

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> [@Official ICE BOWL Meet](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-ice-bowl-meet/40785/169):
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> if you at one point switched the iacv and iat pigtails you will fry both sensors…it just happened to me last winter. They will fit both

I was just about to say that. They get different voltages…

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### Author: ![bald1one](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9de053/32.png) [@bald1one](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bald1one)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2009, 9:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/car-is-running-like-poop/203651/7 "2009-09-08T09:44:07Z")

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> [@Personal Transponders?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/personal-transponders/41001/14):
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> I was just about to say that. They get different voltages…

oh snap, baldy beat ya to it 🙂

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### Author: ![dyingwish](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/dyingwish/32/6041_2.png) [@dyingwish](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/dyingwish)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2009, 9:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/car-is-running-like-poop/203651/8 "2009-09-08T09:51:03Z")

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> [@Rate your New Years 2008](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rate-your-new-years-2008/41037/14):
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> oh snap, baldy beat ya to it 🙂

There is a first for everything I guess :cuddle:

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### Author: ![Darkstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@Darkstar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Darkstar)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2009, 10:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/car-is-running-like-poop/203651/9 "2009-09-08T10:44:53Z")

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If Ford Motor Company is FoMoCo,

what does that make Honda?

HoMoCo.

🤣

It’s funny because it’s true.

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### Author: ![bald1one](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9de053/32.png) [@bald1one](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bald1one)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2009, 1:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/car-is-running-like-poop/203651/10 "2009-09-08T13:04:30Z")

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who went bankrupt this year…I think it was a company called GM??? :bigok:

> [@Big Garage Project Spring 2008.....Need Opinion/Help....](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/big-garage-project-spring-2008-need-opinion-help/40946/31):
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> If Ford Motor Company is FoMoCo,
> 
> what does that make Honda?
> 
> HoMoCo.
> 
> 🤣
> 
> It’s funny because it’s true.

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### Author: ![buds302](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/34f0e0/32.png) [@buds302](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/buds302)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2009, 9:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/car-is-running-like-poop/203651/11 "2009-09-09T21:09:56Z")

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i threw the same code once…took my IACV off… and found a pebble stuck in it… no idea how it got there… removed it and been working fine ever since

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### Author: ![bald1one](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9de053/32.png) [@bald1one](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bald1one)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2009, 4:56am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/car-is-running-like-poop/203651/12 "2009-09-10T04:56:33Z")

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> [@buds302"](#):
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> i threw the same code once…took my IACV off… and found a pebble stuck in it… no idea how it got there… removed it and been working fine ever since

a pebble? good thing it got caught there!

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### Author: ![94gsr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/9/47e85d/32.png) [@94gsr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/94gsr)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2009, 4:59pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/car-is-running-like-poop/203651/13 "2009-09-13T16:59:03Z")

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ok so how much is the little piston inside move?

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### Author: ![Iced\_Tepe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Iced\_Tepe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Iced_Tepe)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2009, 6:40am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/car-is-running-like-poop/203651/14 "2009-09-14T06:40:19Z")

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> [@Big Garage Project Spring 2008.....Need Opinion/Help....](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/big-garage-project-spring-2008-need-opinion-help/40946/31):
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> If Ford Motor Company is FoMoCo,
> 
> what does that make Honda?
> 
> HoMoCo.
> 
> 🤣
> 
> It’s funny because it’s true.

> [@Busta Rhymes](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/busta-rhymes/41043/3):
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> who went bankrupt this year…I think it was a company called GM??? :bigok:

first darkstar thats halarious  
second GM didnt go backrupt if anything chrysler went backrupt  
third he didnt say anything about GM he was talking about ford

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### Author: ![Darkstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@Darkstar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Darkstar)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2009, 6:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/car-is-running-like-poop/203651/15 "2009-09-14T06:41:42Z")

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> [@Business Banking? Who to use?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/business-banking-who-to-use/41091/7):
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> first darkstar thats halarious  
> second GM didnt go backrupt if anything chrysler went backrupt  
> third he didnt say anything about GM he was talking about ford

1. It’s not hilarious. It was really stupid.

2. Yes, GM did go bankrupt.

3. They all know I own a C5 Corvette, hence the GM reference.

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### Author: ![bald1one](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9de053/32.png) [@bald1one](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bald1one)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2009, 8:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/car-is-running-like-poop/203651/16 "2009-09-14T08:52:00Z")

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> [@Business Banking? Who to use?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/business-banking-who-to-use/41091/7):
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> first darkstar thats halarious  
> second GM didnt go backrupt if anything chrysler went backrupt  
> third he didnt say anything about GM he was talking about ford

:rolleyes:…thanks for clearing things up!
