camry has slow acceleration

[flex1016]

hey guys, i have a 94 v6 camry and it doesnt seem to want to peel out no more it seems to have lost a litte bit of acceleration, i was thinking that it might need a new timing belt and or new spar plugs or ignition coils. could this be why its lossing acceleration? could my maf be going bad... ps i haent drovew the car in a while maybe 8 mounths

[sf695@hotmail.com]

Could be a number of things, including bad spark plugs or something else ingnition related, but i doubt it's the timing belt. If i t was broken, the engine wouldn't run at all and if it had slipped, the engine would run very poor, if at all.

[JCamry94]

Originally Posted by flex1016

hey guys, i have a 94 v6 camry and it doesnt seem to want to peel out no more it seems to have lost a litte bit of acceleration, i was thinking that it might need a new timing belt and or new spar plugs or ignition coils. could this be why its lossing acceleration? could my maf be going bad... ps i haent drovew the car in a while maybe 8 mounths

Your car sitting for 8 months could have something to do with it...

[CamryWilly]

get a turbo

[sf695@hotmail.com]

Does turbo in Canada come with or without intercooler? After all what's the point in intercooler when you've got externcooler

[sf695@hotmail.com]

Sitting for 8 months could ofcourse cause trouble. How is the idle? How is it running when cold?

[CamryWilly]

dude...here in canada, were have record cold.

But in summer the weather is almost tropical!!!


Anyways, at -30, the "extern cooler" would be true only during warm-up. After that things get pretty hot.

[sf695@hotmail.com]

[quote=CamryWilly;2631617]dude...here in canada, were have record cold.

But in summer the weather is almost tropical!!!


Anyways, at -30, the "extern cooler" would be true only during warm-up. After that things get pretty hot.[/quoThe difference between us and you is that we never have hot summers, but never really cold winters either. The Mexican Gulf Stream you know

[sf695@hotmail.com]

Damn, quote overwrite

[flex1016]

i changed the spark plugs and put a new timing belt im going to change the oil should i use 10w 40? also can a bad maff slow down the car ..the car runs very good, the idel is good .. i just seem to have los some low end ..the car wont peel out no more.. lol what eles should i look at ??

[sf695@hotmail.com]

A bad map could cause that, but i would expect it to infect the idle as well.

Am i right to assume that the problem is lack of low end torque, but not high rpm horsepower?

Did this problem occure before changing the timing belt?

[flex1016]

no it got some what better when i did tyhe timin belt. im going to clen out the throttle and see if it gets better and go and clean the maff .. and put in some sea foam... hope this works!!

[Jimnist]

You said you did the timing belt, are you absolutely sure you have it correctly timed?

I;ve seen quite a number of threads similar to this and they were off by one tooth.

[project92camry]

Originally Posted by flex1016

hey guys, i have a 94 v6 camry and it doesnt seem to want to peel out no more it seems to have lost a litte bit of acceleration, i was thinking that it might need a new timing belt and or new spar plugs or ignition coils. could this be why its lossing acceleration? could my maf be going bad... ps i haent drovew the car in a while maybe 8 mounths

try a tranny flush, oil change and plugs b4 anything else.. and ofcourse new gas if u havent filled it up by now

[sf695@hotmail.com]

We allways assume, that the timing belt being off would make the engine run like shit, but VVT works by adjusting the timing, so in principle it would just change the torque characteristics, for better or for worse.

Is it a slave cam or both driven by the timing belt?