update....
he is now about 45 miles away from Salt Lake City...as of now...and he'll be trying to get to the Nevada border and then call it a night. Since the last time I was able to talk to him on his cell phone...the civic died.
The death.....
Altitude....I hope.
it died while going up the Rockies....just as I thought it would....since the extrodinary gas milage led me to believe it would run lean.....and the higher it got...the better the gas milage. I asked him to replace the fuel filter...and he did. After that...he was getting 74 MPG
....and then it was a matter of time before the altitude and the engine faught over any air they could. He said that he noticed a little power loss climbing a hill, he was behind a truck, and the next thing he notice was the car died...he gave it some gas...and it started to run again...but sounds of something in the exhaust rattle back...and he looked int eh rear veiw mirror...and saw chunks of something spitting out and on fire....so his mint cat is prolly toast...and then the car wouldn't start. So they loaded it on the trailer and he's now driving his buddies SUV. IF the altitude is the culprit..then there might only be a few parts to change. Prolly a new cat, Map sensor, Baro sensor if there is one...or the fuel pump. But I'm hoping that when he gets below 8,000ft.....where the car died...it will start up and run again.
He said that when the mountain range started...he noticed that the rad was still full, and the overfill tank was filling up...then he emptied it, and it still started to fill up....but he was able to dump it back into the rad...and the rad would be full again.....so about a half a pint or so was burned off......but also remember...he's running nearly super lean...so the heat is prolly building up...but his temp guage never registered normal...always near cold.
I'm still shocked that he has made it to nearly Salt LAke City from CT...and has only payed for gas the full total of $74.....and that using 93 octane.....hrm....I should tell him to put some 87 octane in it...lower the octane...the cooler it burns.
$74 for gas...and a max of 74 MPG.....
64 mpg on the old fuel filter...then a new filter installed and the mpg shot up to 74 mpg....
I'm starting to think the car is possessed....
at 1:47 AM...he's in Salt Lake City...and shooting for the Nevada border....once over the border...they'll pass out in the next hotel. They had a problem with a tire on the car carrier...and another problem with the truck the day before....they almost wasted a full day of travel...
any one in the nevada area?
near wolcott Iowa
