I just finished my car. I bought it with a sheared timing belt. rebuilt the head, replaced the plastic EGR thing coming from the side of the engine and replaced the rubber tee. I am thinking it may be from a vacuum leak. It sounds like there is one coming from around the number three or number four injector but it is faint and I can't tell. The CEL is not on. the car has 89,300 miles on it. are these cars super slow off of the line? I was wondering if the cam timing could be off, but it doesn't stutter or miss. I will check it tomorrow. I turned the engine over by hand quite a few times when I put it all back together and everything stayed aligned. when it gets to about 5k rpm it pulls a little bit but not much. I have to put it into manual mode and drop to 4th to barely accelerate or 3rd. All 5th is good for is maintaining speed on a level surface. I have to give it way too much throttle to get going and to keep speed. Are our cars normally that sluggish with no boost? Thanks to all. I am a new owner. I got the car for $250 and it is in pristine condition except for a dent where a branch fell, got that fixed though. I'll upload pics asap

Brian
99 A4 1.8T Quattro
95 BMW 745i turbo 16psi
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you might want to do a throttle body alignment.