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Re: driveability
Posted to Technical Discussion Forum on 4/4/2008

Check the ECT Sensor. This will give you a great cold start, but as soon as it gets warm, it starts running bad. What happens, is the ECT is reporting 5V back to the ECM, and the ECM thinks the car is cold, so it dumps fuel into the cylinders, and makes it run... Login to read more.