Help!! '03 WRX, need advice/ Please

[Shuvlit]

Some one Please Help!

Need an expert or competent person to help diagnose hopefully fix my 03 WRX. 123K, 2 head gasket

jobs, now #1 and #2 cylinders are miss firing. Car sounds like a VW bug. I replaced coolant temp

sens., TGV #2 , both helped initially but barely. Cold starts are getting harder every day , Sounds

horrible. I think I got some bad gas initially, then 30 min later, car seemed like it was running on 3

cylinders. I used sea foam and various inject cleaners. Replaced the plugs. #1 #2 were black partial oily

#3 #4 were grey, almost salt deposit looking and worn. Have new motor Mounts and need to

replace, Engine moves greatly. Seems as though the car fires correct intermittently. Like the

movement effects it.???

but know there is the cylinder code coming up 1 & 2 misfire.

Anyone?..................????????????????????????? ????? Thanks

[Dean]

KSpeed. If anybody can figure it out, Cory and Matt can.

[Shuvlit]

Well to add to that obvious misconception of my own. I changed my motor mounts and it helped drastically.
Looking to borrow a compression test tool or... I feel my exhaust valves are too tight and am in need of compression check. I am broke and looking for help with this outside of the usual garage. I feel the engine needs replacing or a quality rebuild.
I could trade my 72 CB 550 honda or maybe downhill bike if arrangement was right. I would like to be in on the build since it was F'd up the last 2 times by supposed reputable shops.. I feel the car was a lemon to begin with but would like it to run smoothly. I do not race it. Just need to get to work in the snow. Thanks

Maybe a good suggestion of how to get out from under this car without going deeper in the hole,, Cliff????

[cody]

Sell your stuff to fund the repairs. Take it to Kspeed man. Either that or sell it and buy a 4x4 beater.

[Dean]

KSpeed is not just a reputable shop, it is owned and operated by members of this club and has THE MECHANIC even those of us who rebuild our own motors and do our own alignments trust to work on our cars. Many of us have taken our cars to him for many years from back when he was at the Nissan dealership.

Talk to them and they will give you an honest idea of what it is going to take to diagnose and repair your car with no BS.

Read these two threads.
Member reviews of KSpeed
http://www.seccs.org/forums/showthre...932#post152932
Review of Cory Davis, their mechanic
http://www.seccs.org/forums/showthre...highlight=cory

Shop info
http://www.seccs.org/forums/showthread.php?t=8869
All their vendor messages:
http://www.seccs.org/forums/search.php?searchid=177724

[knucklesplitter]

Originally Posted by Shuvlit

Some one Please Help!

Need an expert or competent person to help diagnose hopefully fix my 03 WRX. 123K, 2 head gasket

jobs, now #1 and #2 cylinders are miss firing. Car sounds like a VW bug. I replaced coolant temp

sens., TGV #2 , both helped initially but barely. Cold starts are getting harder every day , Sounds

horrible. I think I got some bad gas initially, then 30 min later, car seemed like it was running on 3

cylinders. I used sea foam and various inject cleaners. Replaced the plugs. #1 #2 were black partial oily

#3 #4 were grey, almost salt deposit looking and worn. Have new motor Mounts and need to

replace, Engine moves greatly. Seems as though the car fires correct intermittently. Like the

movement effects it.???

but know there is the cylinder code coming up 1 & 2 misfire.

Anyone?..................????????????????????????? ????? Thanks

Since it is cylinder pair 1 & 2, it does not sound like a timing belt issue, which would manifest itself in pairs 1 & 3 or 2 & 4.

Not sure what you mean by the exhaust valves being too tight (in your other post). That could only occur if the cam buckets were done wrong or mixed up. Did you get new valves or cams?

A compression test may be in order. If that shows a problem then a leak-down test would be needed to narrow down the issue.

It is unusual for a WRX to need head gaskets, and very unusual to need them twice. What is the history there?

I guess it could be coil packs, so maybe swap them around and see if the problem follows the swap. I really doubt this, but it is free to try.

Could be #1 and #2 injectors or more-possibly their o-rings dumping fuel into the cylinders.

That's my $.02...