Can be many things, but considering you just changed the intake gasket, I would suspect you did it incorrectly or have knocked a vacuum hose loose somewhere. You have a vacuum leak somewhere.
A faulty gasket, overheating of the engine or old age. Or, a combination of any of these causes.
Could be a bad head gasket.
The head gasket in a 1996 Pontiac Firebird is located between the engine block and the cylinder head. It serves as a seal to prevent coolant and engine oil from leaking and to maintain compression within the engine cylinders. If you're servicing the engine, accessing the head gasket requires removing the cylinder head, which involves disassembling various components of the engine.
Low Coolant. Poor coolant circulation. Intake gasket. Head gasket.
The most common is the head gasket. BUTDepending on the engine there can be several other causes.
No. There would be a gasket between the head and the block, though.
It's between the engine block and the cylinder head.
Blowh Head Gasket
Over heating can blow a head gasket
bad thermostat or bad heat gasket
The most common cause of a blown head gasket is an over heating engine. Low coolant or coolant not circulating through the engine causes the engine to heat up and the gasket to fail.
An old gasket that needs to be replaced.