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    I know it's late, and I've had a long day....but I don't recall seeing that you've verified it having the evap solenoid on it? It's mounted right on the bracket that goes to the alternator, has a red plug going into it. That vacuum tube that runs from the throttle body to the solenoid is notorious for cracking and breaking. The heat gets to it, breaks down the rubber, and sometimes you have to improvise by shoving line inside of it because it's two different sizes from one end to the other.

    If it's had a new snout put on the blower, someone may have pulled the whole thing off to do it so that they didn't get any oil on the engine. It's easy to forget to scrape the gasket off of the bottom of the supercharger, and when it heats up, the gaskets could shrink, metal expands, and then you have a vacuum leak. A loapy chug on the engine is a HUGE vacuum leak, something like that you'll probably hear it.

    Just going from my experience.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Reptile View Post
    I know it's late, and I've had a long day....but I don't recall seeing that you've verified it having the evap solenoid on it? It's mounted right on the bracket that goes to the alternator, has a red plug going into it. That vacuum tube that runs from the throttle body to the solenoid is notorious for cracking and breaking. The heat gets to it, breaks down the rubber, and sometimes you have to improvise by shoving line inside of it because it's two different sizes from one end to the other.

    If it's had a new snout put on the blower, someone may have pulled the whole thing off to do it so that they didn't get any oil on the engine. It's easy to forget to scrape the gasket off of the bottom of the supercharger, and when it heats up, the gaskets could shrink, metal expands, and then you have a vacuum leak. A loapy chug on the engine is a HUGE vacuum leak, something like that you'll probably hear it.

    Just going from my experience.
    Thanks for the reply and you are correct. I have not been able to verify that the car even has the EVAP solenoid on it. My son and I work 2 complete opposite shifts so actually seeing the car can be hard.

    I do know with certainty that the throttle body does not have any hose coming off of it at all...I don't recall even seeing a tube for the hose to go on it.

    Could someone have changed/swapped the throttle body with one from a Naturally aspirated 3800 engine?
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