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Dec 23, 2004 | 07:42 PM

FD2BLK

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Santa got me

Well yesterday I made a bad joke about Santa and this morning my brand new Opti took a dive. I must say as much as I love the LT1 and am growing to really hate the Opti. I have gone through Two Opti’s in the last month and am starting to get very upset. The brand new Opti I used when I rebuilt my motor had a dead miss only at 4000 RPM, replaced the opti problem solved but I noticed that the car would run a little rough first thing in the morning with the new, new Opti. Then this morning shortly after the bad Santa joke I start the car drive it out of the driveway and park it to move my truck then when I get in it to restart it, it just cranks but wont start. I needed to get to work so I take the truck. When I get home I test for spark and nothing, so I start to diagnose it when wham it starts. So I mount my new Z06 Wheels, Santa isn’t all bad and thanks to Glassman for a great deal, so any how I go to take the car for a spin and the SES light comes on and the car starts running like poo. I hook up free scan and find I have trouble codes 16 and 42

. I knew that all symptoms pointed to the opti from the first day I installed it but was in denial, well it looks like another long day tomorrow. Well no more cracks about Santa and I will try to be a good boy or the next two days, really I will.

Dec 23, 2004 | 07:52 PM

CFI-EFI

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Originally Posted by FD2BLK

Well no more cracks about Santa and I will try to be a good boy or the next two days, really I will.

He KNOWS if you've been naughty or nice.

RACE ON!!!

Dec 23, 2004 | 08:53 PM

Corvette Kid

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From: Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die

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Are you using the early or late opti? And these are new and not remans, right?

Dec 23, 2004 | 09:29 PM

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From: Santa Barbara Minnesota

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Originally Posted by CFI-EFI

He KNOWS if you've been naughty or nice.

RACE ON!!!

I don't have the opti/thank Santa .. but I've watched my mechanic do a couple recently .. one thing he does is to drill out the bottom drain hole of the water pump and put a fitting on it and a drain hose on it so the water from the bottom of the pump doesn't run directly into the opti. According to him, as he has done quite a few (dumb design) LOL.

Dec 23, 2004 | 11:25 PM

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From: St. Peters MO Sometimes you have to prove yourself by doing alot of killing or alot of dying...

Sorry to hear of your problem. My friend is dealing with that crap on his Camaro. I hope I don't have to deal with it for some time. Have you considered the Delteq? I don't know squat about it... but I hear it helps. I may look into that in the future, but I don't have a need for it now.

Dec 24, 2004 | 08:34 AM

FD2BLK

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From: Charleston SC

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Originally Posted by Corvette Kid NC

Are you using the early or late opti? And these are new and not remans, right?

95 Opti and they are A/C delco. I heard a rumor that they had a bad run of the optical wheels a while back and think the prts store may have got a bad batch so I decided this time to get my money back and buy straight from a local chevy house. One good thing is I am becoming good at R&Ring OPtis, had the whole thing pulled in about 45 min this morning.