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355 Question for the experts

Discussion in 'Technical Q&A' started by Jati, Apr 5, 2005.

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  1. Jati

    Jati Formula Junior

    Dec 3, 2004
    299
    Florida & NC
    Full Name:
    Joe G.
    Hi All,

    Here's the situation:
    My 98 355 Spider with 8900 miles on the ticker is acting up a little lately.....I will describe the problem. The car starts immediately, & idles perfectly for a few minutes....then it starts to misfire/skip. The misfire will maintain throughout the rev range...At idle it almost sounds as if two cylinders are firing at the same time... If I let the engine continue to idle the miss will smooth out & then after a minute or so return, etc, etc. The miss sounds equal from both tail pipe outlets. It's not bad, but it does seem like the engine is loading-up slightly. The car is set up with a Tubi & Hyper Flow cats (it had the same symptoms with the old cats.) The check engine light is not coming on for this problem but, I did get DTC codes P0432 & P0422 ( main cat below threshold, bank 2 & 1) P0157 & P0137 ( o2 low sensor voltage bank 2 & bank 1 sensors 2) The car had it's 15,000 service in November 04 including most, if not all of a 30,000 service, timing belts, seals, filters etc.. The only thing that I can think of is that the gas is old (from December 04) & it's down around an 1/8 of a tank. My nearest Ferrari dealership is 3 hours away. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Would like some input before I fuel up and give it an Italian tune up.

    TIA, Jati
     
  2. GTO84

    GTO84 Formula Junior

    Dec 13, 2003
    566
    Plug wires. Put some gas in it, ring it out and report back.
     
  3. richard_wallace

    richard_wallace Formula 3

    Feb 6, 2004
    1,957
    Cincinnati, Ohio
    Full Name:
    Richard Wallace
    I concur with GTO - New Gas First - and a lot of it. Plug and Plug Wires... That would be a start...
     
  4. davey_jones

    davey_jones Formula Junior

    Sep 28, 2002
    781
    wherever it's sunny
    Full Name:
    Dave
    Had a similiar situation with the 348 when I first got it.
    Good gas and a bottle of injector cleaner / techron took care of it.
     

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