Hi,
My 89 camry (v6) was losing power and responsiveness in the midrange - just a quick note for anyone with a similar problem - check your hoses!!! I had a large split in the hose connecting the air filter to the throttle body - plugging this with yet more glue has sorted the problem...
On a different note, can anyone suggest an aftermarket airfilter system that would fit this engine or am i best spending the $167 (AUD) on a new hose (a new filter is required too...)?? The current hose already has a large piece of duck-tape sealing one split and half a tube of araldite sealing a further two splits :O So it is getting rather past its use-by date! The cheapest I have seen the replacement part so far is c$75USD.
I also have a second problem: After running (fine) at temperature and parking the car for around 30-60 mins when I come to restart the car it starts fine, idles fine, yet runs very rough for around 10-20s with very little power as soon as I hit the gas (chugs violently almost as though it is threatening to backfire). NOTE: The car has hardly cooled down in this timeframe...
I'm a bit of a loss as to what is causing this problem since the car runs fine after this and the problem is not usually there on cold-starting (ie: after it is left overnight; though it is never very cold here...). The timing is fine (this problem was still there before I retarded the timing due to pinging); the air filter isn't perfect (up for renewal) though I do have a fuel-line that is weeping a little bit. Can anyone suggest any other likely causes??? Could the O2 sensor be a problem or would this cause grief all the time?
Thanks in advance
Matt