What to do!!!, after 8 months the 3s is not working! Options

[Chrobis]

Well, after 8 months of not driving over 4k rpm, and it constantly fuel cutting im, to say the least, agravated! I thought the shop I had the swap done at was compitent enough to service problems, but i have had this problem since i drove it out the shop in April. The car cant go over 80 on the freeway, and it cant be left in gear over 2k rpm, so that means to drive at 80 in 5th I have to accelerate for like 5 seconds, it cuts, i put the clutch in and it go's to idle and I can then accelerate once again.

At this time my mechanic seems to be just spitting out parts for me to replace that might fix the problem, and frankly I want to add parts to the car with the money I'm spending, not just pump into stuff I don't need. At this time he wants to try the knock sensor, which I'm not tottaly sure about...

I went over to my local dealer and they said they would be able to run a diagnostic for like $250+ which would suck because that is money that just disapears.

So people, what do I do!?

Pump money into parts that may fix the car, or just drop the money to then find out the exact problem and then drop the money to fix that?

This post has been edited by Chrobis: Nov 15, 2004 - 5:08 PM

[Chrobis]

Also, just to let everyone know there are like 5-10 different igniters for the second gen 3s-gte, so part number matching dosnt always work.

The igniter that came with the motor is 89621-12010

and the one I ordered is 89621-12050

and I believe different part numbers for Mr2's 90-92 and then another for 93-95.

also yet another for an alltrac from 90-91 and mine is from a 92.