Help, strange vibration/ rumbling through car

[Simaroon]

Started the car up last night for the first time in probably over a year
New battery and it fired up fine, idled fine, let it run for half hour or so, perfect.

Today, started fine, let it run for 10 mins or so, went for a little tootle down the street, 1st slowly then into boost (feathering throttle mind), all good, Into 2nd, all good, into 3rd and all good but then car almost dies, revs plummet, everything\'s vibrating lots with hardly no revs/power, get to the top of the hill just about (20 yards), 3 point turn and engine dies (I was afraid to rev it, was lots of vibration). Sit there gutted for a min, then try to start it, It starts just about! Luckily home was down hill, but still cut out at the junction and again getting onto the drive.

Hardly no power and I can feel the vibrating/rumbling through the car  what  could have happened while the car had been stood?.

Any help please guys, I\'m miles from any kind of rotary garage, I\'m talking a few hundred probably.

[Simaroon]

Have you got to be in a certain clique to get a reply or any help on here?
Thank fduk for the other site.

[Grant Monkhouse]

Maybe no one knew what you were talking about?? A vibration through the car is very vague to say the least.

Or people just haven\'t seen the thread?? I have only just noticed it TBH.

[grinder]

only reason i didnt post , as if its as bad as you are making out .. you might have blown it and its running on one rotor .. so i didnt want to be the bearer of possible bad news

might be worth taking the plugs out , and doing the poor mans compression test

Crank it over ( well not you , but someone ) and listen to make sure you are getting 3 even "puffs" from each rotor

[Simaroon]

It feels like the vibrating is stemming from the block itself, will  not idle, power is almost non existent, just about to keep the car going jus by feathering the throttle, I didn\'t try wot, was a lot to nervous.

It\'s very hard to explain, and apologies for snapping a tad but over 30 views and up for 2 days I thought some input would be nice, even if it was to ask for a more clear explanation

[Simaroon]

What would be the cause of a blown rotor, it was running fine before I took it off the road, started fine after a year, big coincidence or have I possibly done something disastrous. I let if warm thoroughly, checked oil water etc (I know it needs changing before I started using it properly, I didn\'t go over 20mph and this happened

[grinder]

to be honest , i dont know if its FD specific or what , you might have blown off a vac pipe or anything

from what you have said , its not as if you did anything drastic , so it "might" be something simple ??

You really need a FD owner to read this with better knowledge than me

[Simaroon]

Ok grinder, thanks for your input

Hopefully it\'s not anything drastic, I have checked boost pipes and cam sensor hose.

[Grant Monkhouse]

Iv had a juddering happen due to fouled plugs and the map needing fuel taking out. Felt as if the car was cutting out the. Would give a huge lurch forward and then clear out.

Iv had boost leaks cause similar problems, actually blew one of the IC pipes off

[Simaroon]

I\'ve had boost pipes bow off in my s13 and power just dies, I\'m not sure if it would cause a rumble being a rotary.

I didn\'t take the plugs out or clean them, I was amazed it started after so long! So it maybe plug related or hopefully fuel has got Loads of gunk mixed in with it and clogged the filter and it\'s fuel related. It\'s the constant rumbling vibration which has made me panic, so wanted to know if it\'s an obvious sign of something really.

Blown rotor and knackered seals scare me. It\'s only done about 2000 miles in the 5 years since its rebuild tho.

[grinder]

well we can only assume its OK then

Fingers crossed for something simple

[Grant Monkhouse]

Check the oil system it may be gunked up from being stood

[grinder]

although from reading the first post , it only seems to have "broke" after being driven .. does that point to something ?

[Simaroon]

Yes grinder and it was when the car first came across a hill so was under load, more strain?

[grinder]

it could be i suppose , if you were making boost , it could be a hose/selanoid thats gone iffy

is it low on fuel ?? Just wondering if you have dragged :censored::censored::censored::censored: from the bottom of the tank into the fuel filter ?