Movie from the 80's about a crazy car.

The owner was fairly deranged as well...

Stephen King book that later was made into a movie really messed up! remind me never to walk past mrs viv... er... I mean Cristine

another cylinder 4 misfire.
we can rule out spark plugs,dist cap.
all the sensors operate to spec.
compression is ok.
And City driving is fine.

so now we know it's cylinder #4 again and under hard acceleration ?
i'am going with injector or possible weak valve spring.

how long did it misfire for?
a couple of seconds?
or minutes..was it ok after you let the foot off the accelerator?
were you by any microwave towers?may need a PCM shield.

in the end we can always put in a V8 and give Ian some Competition
and a Road Warrior Blower sticking out the hood.

http://christinecarclub.com/

Its not happening in the same place though as far as your Dr House tower theory goes and it is not EVERY TIME i put my foot down sigh bloody four! think i may clear the code again and see when it next pops up... cause i need to get food tonight my house is bare so like i said i wont be bringing the car in today anyway

http://www.allpar.com/history/christine.html

She may not be a Fury but she has the colour right at least. No mis fires this morning

She went an ENTIRE DAY with no mis fires! Yay Viv!

Did you do a leakdown on it?

A what? andy please remember i am mechanically challenged lol. Although i did suck it back and feed her some fuel line and injector cleaner it can not hurt either way

A cylinder leakdown test, you can pin-point a problem with a cylinder that way. For example on my saab, I've got low(er) compression cyl 2...great, why? Put the cylinder leakdown test on there and it tells me that I have 60% leakage in that cylinder, then I took my stethoscope and starting listening around different parts of the engine, like the intake, exhaust , valve cover, dipstick tube for hissing. I found my hissing in the coolant expansion tank thus telling me that I have exhaust gasses entering my cooling system most likely from a blown headgasket.

Fair enough! Paul did your guys do this or do i have something to do this weekend?

You can't do it yourself, Kat, without a compressor and a leakdown tester.

Well then curses. there is not a danged thing i can do is there. sigh

*edit* I was just gonna see about getting a stethescope type thing and just putting an ear to things...good idea, bad idea, Kat stay the hell away from under the hood?

This...

Unless you know what you're looking for or listening for, you will accomplish nothing...