Q: The car is from California and the smog pump was removed, runs poorly.
The car runs good when cold but as soon as it starts to warm up it runs poorly. My mechanic says that it is like it is not getting enough gas.He has changed injectors as someone used silicon and injectors were clogged. O2 sensor changed as it was bad.The coil was changed as it to was bad. The fuel pump was changed as was the hose to the mass air intake. Can you think of what it may be?
My car has 189000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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