[ylberi]

since no one has answered me i will try to make it clear this time (i think it was all my fault i was not so clear). i have a 1990 Colt GLX hatchback. i started getting the engine light on and the engine was working as if it was being choked or as if the exhaust pipe was closed; it would jump like a rodeo horse and black smoke is going out of the exhaust. i removed the catalysator or the cat converter if that is the same thing and i replaced it with a normal exhaust but not the entire exhaust just the part of the cat converter. i still have the check engine light on and all other symptoms. i just remembered yesterday that the distributor also is not exactly the same as it should be;the numbers are not the same. please, please help me!!!!!!!