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What's Wrong With My R33? Please Help!


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I have a 1993 R33 Gtst series 1 which I bought in June, the engine and ecu are completely stock (hard to believe I know) and the car runs completely fine... most of the time. About once every few weeks it will have a spasm and will not let me go past 2 and half rpm on any gear and jerks violently as if the revs are too high and just cuts the accelerator power once it tries to go past 2 and half rpm.

I am thinking along the lines of something to do with the turbo or maybe AFM, I was just wondering if this has happened to anyone else or if it is a common problem and if someone could offer me some ideas with with how to fix this problem.

Any help/ ideas/ input would be appreciated.

I have 2 videos I recorded today of this occurring but am unable to upload it as it is in mp4 format and am not sure how to convert it so it can be uploaded.

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Sounds like an afm issue especially and the lower spectrum of the rpm. If you're handy with a solder you can crack it open and soldier all the joints inside it. Its not likely the element is damaged but more likely there's a cold solder in there. If that doesn't fix it then it might be a long road.

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OP, post up a pic of the inside of the AFM if you want some opinions. The top of the box part is just glued on, bit of mucking around with a knife etc to get it off but not so hard. Should be able to see the problem if it needs a joint or 2 resoldered

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it could be surging due to clogged injectors, run a $10 bottle of injector cleaner through your tank, fixed mine with similar problem and even if its not the problem at least you will have clean injectors

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if it is the afm you may not see an obvious fault in the circuit board cos it could just be a dry solder joint so just hit each pad with the iron to make sure the pad is good, but i still think you should try injector cleaner cos it fixed my similar problem

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No it's not a burn hole, its just glue.

So I ended up just re-soldering the 4 connection pins which you can see in the 3rd photo because I could see one of the pins looked like it wasn't connected properly. Hopefully this fixes the problem but it will be hard to tell because it was a rare occurrence in the first place.. so time will tell.

I like your idea of injector cleaner too Mick, I might do that as well since it's cheap and can't hurt by giving it a go also.

Thanks for your help gents, I'll let you know how it's going in a few weeks time.

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