yea the previous owner bought it and had the money to get it serviced. gave it too his daughter and something happened to the car. their mechanic said a piece of the pre-cat broke off and its blocking the exhaust. thats y i replaced the exhaust. no improvement.

i bought the car for $1200. I spent 800 for the exhaust system. the egr for 275 and the timing parts for 375. My friend (retired, worked on cars all his life) said there was a vacuum leak right away after looking at it. there was a small hose that was ripped and we fixed that and the EGR was all rusted, obviously needed to be replaced.

There was no improvementl. the car still idled high. it sits at 3k and eventually starts rising to 4k after it warms up. sometimes it idles fine and stays.

After it warms up it doesnt wanna start again. it has to cool down then it will start. the coolant is fine.

If its definitley not the timing chain then wat could it be??