:D Good news a mechanic friend said it wasn’t the motor didn’t hear any bad noise around the engine told me is under the car check the muffler. Went to a muffler shop. Turns out, the sound was from the heat shield that was bent and it was touching the muffler. What I learned from this never asume th...

Update: Ran it a bit today. It’s revs through the gears good until the 5th can get pass the 2k RPM it’s a strugg le around 50mph. Also sometimes in idle it’s raddles something under engine my guess. I’m thinking the worse. Down a cilender. I stop the car. update as soon I can find a good mechanic li...

Update no water in trodle body and clean oil in dipstick. In process in taking spark plugs out. Need a 16mm socket. Question do any of you guys know which is the fuel pump relay in our cars? Scratch that got the engine running sounds good no knocking notices. Now I changed the oil just make sure eve...

@Abdullatif

Its a normal 4b11 2.0L engine

@bumblebee
Yeah thats a good idea too. i saw a new 4b11T on ebay at 5k so imagine a normal 4b11 wont be that expensive

Will update this post after i drain the oil take the spark plugs and see if i can get the water out. never done this tho only got the idea

Hi Im new here. After two years of running with a cai, my luck run out. i hit a giant puddle, didn't see it. Cuz it didn't stalled and it ran okay I said im good but after a while hear a noise; stop the car and yup its knocking. towed the car home. Gonna check later. The questions i have if have to ...