# Need help from the DSM pros

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**Category:** Shift518 Automotive\
**Created:** [May 17, 2011, 9:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/need-help-from-the-dsm-pros/258436 "2011-05-17T09:01:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 17, 2011, 2:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/need-help-from-the-dsm-pros/258436/8 "2011-05-17T14:27:16Z")

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> [@Confederate Flag - Get Rid of it?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/confederate-flag-get-rid-of-it/42160/75):
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> well ok, how about…cleaning your mass air flow sensor (check to se if the honey combs are still in there, car will run a rough without them), check the timing, plugs, wires (have fun removing the intake mani to get to the rear cyl bank, lol), o2 sensors, vac leaks, oil change etc. Did it run fine b4 u put it away? any problems in the history of the car or from the previous owner? check the compression!! Does it start and ide fine? rev it at ide and see if fuel is comming out of the exhaust. if it was sitting for a while, the cats could be clogged, and last but not least, put some new gas in it.

I don’t know much about anything previous to my brother getting it. The maf was on the list of things to check. I believe he did plugs wires, etc but I’m not 100% sure. There is a vac leak that he fixed before he went back to school but we don’t think that was it. From what I’ve heard (I have not seen the car run yet) it idles fine but just doesn’t like to rev up at all. Supposedly he has sea-foamed and changed the gas, but I dont know if he just sea-foamed the gas or if he ran it through the throttle body / engine. He says it is throwing codes but I hae no idea what codes they are.

> [@Who's "da man" for tint?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whos-da-man-for-tint/42276/26):
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> see if the intake pipe from the mass airflow sensor to the turbo didnt come off or something silly like that… sounds similar to having an i/c pipe pop off.

I didn’t even think of that… even though I had that exact thing happen to me when I had my 87 RX7. Stalled right out on the bridge from Troy into Watervliet and had no power breaks all the way down the bridge.

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