Hello all, long time reader first time poster.
I'm not 100% sure if this is the right place so please excuse me if it is not. So I have had my 1995 skyline r33 gtst for about 2 and a bit years and have started to notice an issue that has gotten worst about 4 months ago. This car is not really my daily as I only drive it once or twice a week if I'm lucky as I get lifts to work and use my girlfriends car if needed.
The issue is, when I'm driving and give my car a bit around 3-4k rpm seems like there is a big lack of power/boost and then picks up from there after 4k - 4.5k then I hear a bit of a popping noise coming from my exhaust and sometime maybe smoke (in first gear it seems fine), when it first started it was just the popping noise and what I thought to be a blocked fuel filter or something. So I bought a new one and replaced it and notice that when I turned my car on all the hoses had a crack in them so I turned her off and bought new ones and replaced them all. Now I thought I had found what the problem was so I went for a test run and it seems a bit better but the problem was still there, I left it for a while to try and figure out what it was. I thought maybe it was the pod filter needing a clean our or something so I bought a new one rather than try and clean my Apexi one as I was not 100% sure on how to clean it. But still no luck problem still there and seems that its getting worst every day. I have done some reading and have pin pointed to a couple of things that it might be. One the o2 sensor or two the AFM. Just wanting to know a bit about this before if try and so anything am I heading in the right direction? Has anyone had this happen before if so what was your issue?
I'm a bit over due for an oil change(1.500km noticed a drop in oil pressure on the dash but not much) so I was going to do that this weekend or on Monday and see if this helps any. But if anyone could point me in the right direction to what this could be that would be great.
Here are my spec and hope this helps as it could be something different.
Blitz intercooler
Apexi pod and cool enclosure
3.5inch xforce exhaust turbo back
HKS EVC boost controller (running low on 8psi issue not so noticeable on this level) (high on 12psi really noticeable, never had an issue running on high until I noticed this issue a few months back)
R32 fuel pump the guy who had this before me changed it over. Said it was a bigger pump then the r33 (not sure if it's true?) might have even said 34 not sure it was two years back but I can check when I get home or might have been a different pump altogether.. not sure.
She's tuned to run on 12psi and I run on 8 for when I'm just cruising around she hit 204.4rwkw
Any help would be great thanks.