Did I just have the shortest love affair with my car?
Hello GPF peeps... I am new to forums & new to Pontiac and maybe it isn't for me? On Monday I sold my Cadillac CTS to free up some money. As I am going out of town for work in about 14 days, I wasn't going to buy another car til I returned. I saw a 97 GTP with high miles 1600k) for at what I thought was pretty cheap... A little fixer upper but a piece of **** in the mean time. Very clean interior but in pieces, rebuilt Trans & engine..."allegedly" It has rust but also new tires. Anyways, when I looked/bought the car, the battery was not there (I guess I over looked that detail in the small print) I hooked up jumper cables as a last resort and heard/saw it for about 10 seconds. It ran (rough) but started right up and had an instant CEL - MAF low circuit. I completed repair,with many more parts in the trunk. Spark plugs, wires, pcv valve, fuel filter, battery were all changed. I also clean the MAF with that spray. Also the throttle body & a few inches into the plenum. After doing that work, the car will not run. If I crank and feather the throttle, it sputters, falls on its face and feels like the last 3 seconds before running a gas tank dry. No CEL (of course, it only ran for 1.7 seconds...haha)Any ideas or comments would be greatly appreciated. Please help me, haha.. I've always loved these cars. GTO, Bonno, and G8 are all awesome, but the GP GTP... It brings me right back. Back to when I was 11 or 12 seeing my neighbors GTX on the weekend... thinking it was so that it was badass because it was supercharged, haha. I want to resurrect this thing! Anything would be greatly appreciated, thanks for reading that novel and the next beer is on me.
NOTE: I am mechanically inclined. I was apart of a pro Porsche series pit crew. I've made 70% of all my money since my legal working age from some form of the automobile. So someone putting a fuel filter on backwards (why are they arrowed for direction, if they only go one 1 way?) Or not hooking up the throttle cable would be funny.. I don't think I'll be the one this time. I have very little knowledge about engine issue diagnostics, basically I don't **** about it..
