Originally posted by warmonger:
Thats an aweful lot of work and a nice car to just give up on. I know man, I felt almost the same way a month ago, but my car was really broken.
An intercooler is something you can save up for slowly and isn't going to cost you to install it.

How goes the idle thing? I have mine working good now that the min. pulsewidth setting is down, I replaced the front bank O2 sensor, fixed the faulty MAF electronics and used my emanage to lean out the MAF curve a little more.

What I'm driving at is that it is just a series of steps you have to follow before you reach automotive Bliss!
I'm just about there right now, so will you with a little more patience and a few little mods.

Tom




Yeah its been since oct 16th, 02 that the car has driven like it should, in between there have been a TON of sacrifices and it hasn't been fun at all. I miss the weekend mods days where you did something on a weekend and it ran BETTER then when you started. Mine is definitly fast as h*ll, but I need it to be transparent to changing weather conditions.

My idle issue is still there, I thought I found the problem when I realzed that at 140 and 160 degree IAT it pulled 18 and 18% timing from idle to red line, now we have it only pulling from 1000 rpm to redline and it helpsed it idle a little bit but have a severe lean tip in problem. Also the O2's are pegged rich at idle and it almost stalls from running lean, once I richen it up even more on the optimizer it smooths out the idle! It also smooths out the transition from idle to about 2300 rpm is where it finally clears up. But then runs so rich up top the tail pipes are covered in soot in less then one accleration run.

It almost seems that with a well tuned transfer function we could get it working correctly but something is a miss, why are my O2's pegged rich and it wants more fuel? Why does it go instantly LEAN from idle and under load up to 2300 rpm? Why does it run smooth as glass on some days and kills at every light the next day? Questions like these are getting realy old. The one that I'm most pissed about is


WHY THE F**K DIDN'T FORDCHIP TUNE IT RIGHT WHEN IT WAS IN DETROIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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