My son bought a car and we've got some learning to do.
Gave my kid a budget of $10k and this is what he got. Talked the guy down from $14k. We've had it for 3 years, still under 100k miles.
Really just asking for any advice y'all can give us.
Vehicle is a 2010 V6 Camaro with the 6speed manual. Its been equipped with a procharger and came with the connectors for HPtuners MPVI2 system. Also has the Hotchkis stage 3 suspension for those curious folks.
Car ran flawlessly for a couple years until the wastegate starting sticking causing it to run rich and shit the bed above 4k rpm. You would have to pull over and shut if off or it would just stumble along. Admittedly it took a little bit to figure this out especially since it wasnt really noticeable unless you had your foot in it. Now that the waste gate has been replaced the fuel cuts out at 4900 rpm regardless of what gear its in.
I am mechanically inclined and work on my own stuff all the time but my experience is more 60s and 70s cars and heavy equipmemt hydraulics. After market turbos and ecu stuff is above my paygrade so to speak.
How do I remedy this fuel cut off issue?
The only mod we did was the Knight rider light, lol. Also have a set of Doug Thorley headers to put on and a new muffler to go with em, but I'm not doing that till this fuel situation is solved.
(Before anyone asks, my son likely wouldn't have noticed the issue at all as he drives very conservatively, 3 years and no tickets. I noticed it because i wanted to make sure that it ran like it did when we bought it after fixing the waste gate. He mostly bought it so that he had something cool to go to cars and coffee events etc.)