Ok so I was driving Friday on the freeway with another friend with a turbo balt and my intercooler blew (end caps)... No boost but the car still ran.



I drove it home and parked it it that night right after it happened. Now my car is completely stock other than a cat less down pipe I had on it, I drove it into the garage this afternoon to clean it up for the dealership visit, checking my fluids... Etc. I decided to swap my stock down pipe back on just so they dont give me any grief.


Now my car will not idle properly - the rpms jump up and down and it eventually stalls after 2-4 seconds of severely rough idle. It's also shooting out black/blue smoke out the exhaust (running extremely lean/blowby<-dad told me).


I have a dealership visit for Monday morning already to have my rear chevy logo replaced because it was flaking, and a few other small things.

Now Im pretty sure can't even drive it there it's in such rough condition...

tl:dr

Blown ic (happened during hard driving)
Car is %100 stock
Has a cat less down pipe only
Put stock down pipe on for dealership visit for ic
Car barely can idle now
Shoots out black/blue smoke



Please people let me know if my problems with my car can be attributed to the blown ic or swapping of my dp, or if anyone has any ideas... Might be getting my car towed in...


Thanks!!!



The kicker, my rpd has a big rep circle with a line through it on the 'cam angle sensor' screen(or whatever is the one that shows the intake and exhaust ratio?). So it cannot read those values.

 

dumb question but..did you reconnect your 02 sensors lol

 

Yep I did, but It would be interesting to know if it being broken would cause this behavior. Or if there is a way to force my car to "reset" itself.

 

Same thing happened to me...blew the stock intercooler and the car was fine to drive. The next morning on cold startup it simply would not run. Id imagine if you can keep it running until somewhat warm it will find an idle and make it to the dealer

 

it is the blown intercooler..

 

I'm just wondering why it ran so well the night it broke, and the 10 minutes of driving I did home while it was broken. Even when I pulled it into my garage this morning it ran ok.


Start up this afternoon and it doesn't work worth **** lol

 

cause it was warm and when u start it when its cold it goes into cat warmup mode and its sucking alot of air in, with no intercooler and therefore no turbo, ya, its gonna idle and run bad.

 

Yeah, no go for getting it to run.


Getting towed tomorrow morning *sniff*