what went wrong?
replaced mt leaking valve cover gasket on my otherwise perfect running 1993 festiva, found i had to remove the throttle body to remove the valve cover. made my own gasket since no one had one available for the throttle body. there are 2 hoses that heat the throttle body that i removed and simply placed a u hose to route the water directly to the isc/bpa valve. now i fire it up idles fine revs when cold but when warmed up you cannot accelerate open the throttle it just cuts out the runs cuts out then runs the warmer it gets the worse it gets. i am positive it is not a intake leak at the new gasket area. sprayed around the area and no change in idle so no leak. just had the car smog test and the test connector lead you are suppose to use to ground to check the timing cuts the engine off. i will pull the throttle body tomorrow and see if i somehow did not make a passage in the gasket that is the only thing i can guess it is. car has run great and have been the only owner of it with 190k on the clock, really cannot understand what happened unless there is some electrical problem (the non working test lead that should let you check/set baseline timing maybe the ecm is going south) please help this is my budget commuter car, i need to get it fixed.
