The MSD was disconnected. It threw a MIL at start up and melted the tach adapter they recommended. We were waiting on tech feedback before going forward with it.

I know Rick was holding it below 4-5K until he could get a chip tuned, but with the new injectors running well with the new MAF I'm not sure if he remembered he still needed to keep the revs low to avoid spark advance or not. The way it should have happened was get the car to the dyno, download a Vortech spec chip program minus any fuel changes, make a light run, then make changes from there. Since I wasn't there, I don't know if that's what happended or not...

Certainly if a full throttle run were being made right off the bat with no spark changes, detonation would easily be strong enough to blow a hole in the pistons...


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