[Ez-Bone]

Ok, I'm literally trembling right now because I kind of fear the worst has happened to my engine.

Just recently I had a starting problem.
I drove the car to work Tuesday (9/28/10) and by my lunch time, about 11am, I was going to get her inspected. Well I had to cancel that because she wouldn't start. Just crank and crank and crank but not even so much as a sputter.
At first I thought it was my fuel pump that went dead but that thing is silent anyway and can't hear it when you turn the key on (that horrendous bong noise doesn't help ither). Well I had to leave it there for the night and hope for better results the next day.

Wednesday, I get to the car and 5pm comes around, home time! I hit the key and a few cranks, she came to life, but not how I'd want her to... smoke went everywhere and there was some god-awful metallic 'clanking' noise occasionally when I'd try to throttle her up to keep her going. I've been terrified that somehow something inside the engine was slapping something and with time, would just sever whatever it was or simply blow-up.
Anyway, the smoking is thick and hard to pin what scent it is but it struggles to start from a cold sit and stay on. Even when I throttle her, it wants to bog down and die unless I flutter it like mad while cranking.

I may just have to get a video to help get the message through, because I'm literally too panicked right now to think straight and making sure I have all details down. Plus I think a video will do abit more justice than me aimlessly ranting on.

Just today, I was checking my spark plugs since I got the stupid idea that possibly my rings quit on me, thinking that all the 'ninja smoke' she throws out is oil. well I found out it isn't but my plugs are charred, letting me know she was rich and possibly burning oil at some point.
So I put all those back and start her up again. The engine had some time to sit and cool since the trip home and again, cool start, it struggled to stay up and going, leaving me to flutter the throttle like mad again. Once finally started, I'd let it idle and level out; it did great and was almost completely stable like before. But the moment I try to rev it a hair, it wanted to die. I then hear that skin crawling metallic clanking again and the engine bogs then dies.

I think my hypothesis on this issue could be my AFM??? Often times I can disconnect that thing while the engine is idling and it won't have too big of an affect on the idling performance. But, the moment you throttle it = dead and this is basically/exactly what is going on here. However... could the AFM also make the car smoke like some ninja playing a vanishing act? To me it doesn't seem likely but I don't know, I haven't had the chance to dissect a 944/968 engine yet to know what makes them tick.

I'm just really freaked out and want some clear drawn out answers/remedies for this issue.


PS: As of now, the car will start and idle now but will sputter and die when I throttle it. Still there is the occasional 'clank' noise and huge suffocating smoking from the tail