Need Help, Can't figure this out Options

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Here is a little backround info:

I drive a 1990 Eclipse GSX 5-speed with barely over 80,000 miles on it and it is bone stock except for free mods. I just bought this about a month ago and it sat at the mitsu service dept. for about the past three weeks. It was miss-fireing horribly at about 3,500-4000 RPMS so I brought it to them and they thought it was the plugs and wires since the wires were falling apart when they took them off. So they went ahead and replaced the plugs and wires with OEM ones, didn't fix the problem. The next step was the power transistor. Took a little while for that part to come in but once it did, it fixed the problem. So I just got my car back 2 days ago and I took it to an exhaust shop to have a new flex tube put on since it was leaking and made my car sound horrible.

So last night I take the car to the place where all the nice cars go cruise, hang out, race, etc. It is about 30 minutes from where I live so I head on over there, the car is running better than ever and I am so happy that I bought it and I am thinking that it is worth every penny. So I cruise the strip for about and hour or two, giving a little BOV salute to some nice cars. Of course I got on it from time to time at the red lights but I never launched it or anything. A couple times I had noticed that when I dropped it from 5th to 4th, I would hear a little squeek, sounded like a belt slipping to me. Other than that it never gave me a problem until about half way home on the highway.

All the sudden it just didn't want to go above 65, it would like start shaking and kind of felt like something was binding up a little bit. Really, just the whole ride from that point on felt a little big different. Kind of like the car was stuttering a little bit. Then, when I hit the off ramp and came to a stop the car starting squeeling horrible. Sounded to me like a belt slipping bad so I pulled over and it stopped. Get going again all seems to be well squeeling wise, but the car still doesn't feel the same accelerating, it still seems as if it is suttering and something is holding it back a little. As I pulled into town and have to stop again, the squeeling come back. I just drove it the rest of the little way to my house and parked it, shut it off, and hoped that all would be well in the morning and the car was just throwing a fit or something.

So, here this morning/afternoon comes. I go out and start up the car and it is squeeling just as bad as the night before. Except now it only does it for about 10-15 secs after start up, and then it goes away. If you pull the throttle a little bit lets off a squeek aswell. So I figure, what the hell I'll take it for a little drive and see if it still doing the same things in motion that it was doing last night, and it is. I can hear a squeel from the engine when I drop it down a gear for a turn almost every time aswell, I'm going to assume its a belt slipping.

I've checked the alt/water pump belt and the ps belt to see if they were loose at all and they seem to be very tight. I am not very proficient with working on the car at all since I am just entering the dsm scene, so any advice or help would be greatly appreciated. Sorry for this novel I just wrote up, but I figured the more detail and backround of the problem, the better for you all the diagnose it.

Thanks in advance,
Dylan

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Well, I feel stupid. It was actually an injector. It wasn't hooked up, it had shook itself loose because none of them have clips on them apparantly..... So I was running on 3 cylinders which was causing my shaking. Time to try and make some clips out of paper clips....