Originally Posted by Cronic
Something else I wanted to add. If you have a cylinder that is dead, or weak, this can cause backfires, because the air/fuel mixture never got a chance to ignite in the chamber - this is what you would refer to as a "rich" backfire.
THATS ME! For some reason my car wont ignite on cylinder 1. Sometimes it will sometimes it wont. After I take it to redline once, it will idle on 3 cylinders for a while. Still in process of figuring out whats wrong.