Project: E34 Busted Pile

[Jake]

If the problem is that obvious, I am going to guess it's not the vanos. When I drove a car with busted vanos, it was hardly noticeable except for the lack of mid range power. I definitely wouldn't call it a hesitation.

Yeah, this is very noticeable. Some hesitation at idle and around 2k rpm to about 2500.

it may cause the car to run lean and hesitate.

Odd thing is, the car's running WAY rich. Like 10 mpg rich. I know the M50 isn't the world's most efficient motor but EPA city is like 16, and this tank has had about 100 miles of highway driving mixed in. We're at 1/4 tank with only 170 miles on the trip odo. It's a 21 gallon tank.

I assume there is no CEL?

Nope.