phil's build thread... back from the dead yet again

so after a huge fight with my dad, this build needs to be done yesterday. i put the stock cat-back on tonight after some "fabrication" on the rusted in bolts with a torch and a BFH. cut my hand to sh!t too, but it's a little quieter. you can hear yourself think when you sit in it.

i also switched out the coil packs for the ones that i took off the car. still sounded a little off, but no SES light. of course it was only on for a minute or so, but i'll play with it some more tomorrow. i'm driving it, suspended license be damned

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Originally Posted by Poil336

so i never did a CASE relearn when i swapped out the pcm... could this be causing problems?

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Could be...but I doubt it...

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Originally Posted by Poil336

so after a huge fight with my dad, this build needs to be done yesterday. i put the stock cat-back on tonight after some "fabrication" on the rusted in bolts with a torch and a BFH. cut my hand to sh!t too, but it's a little quieter. you can hear yourself think when you sit in it.

i also switched out the coil packs for the ones that i took off the car. still sounded a little off, but no SES light. of course it was only on for a minute or so, but i'll play with it some more tomorrow. i'm driving it, suspended license be damned

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Regardless of all of this Philly boy...do you have a scanner...or someone close that does?

I have one but i'm around an hourish away.

buying one from a member on this site as we speak. well, i drove it, still no SES light but i'm not convinced it's not missing. and there's a vacuum leak somewhere, i heard a little whistling noise. and, on the first time out, a heater core line came off and i lost all my coolant. so i have a ton of things i need to inspect

At least you got to drive it a little bit.

that part was nice. the exhaust note however... eeewwwwww

re-did the vac lines on top of the motor. helped the surging idle some and kept the P0300 code from appearing. then i got smoke coming from the front bumper/radiator area (?????) and turned it off after 10 mins or so. waited a few, started it warm, surging idle came back and code was set. wtf could this be...

What have you done so far to try to fix it?

not much lol. 93 octane gas, fuel injector cleaner, replaced coil packs with ones that i know work, plugs are new, wires are the ones that came off the car, sealed up the vacuum lines. next chance i get i'll be spraying carb cleaner around the intake manifold looking for vac leaks there. if that's not it, it's gotta be fuel related. either a bad regulator, filter, or multiple bad injectors. they sat for a really long time. it's just weird that it won't keep a steady idle, but it's consistent in it's unsteady idle, know what i mean?

have you checked your fuel pressure?

no, no gauge :( all i have as far as diagnostic equipment is my code reader, and between it not running right and a suspended license, i can't take it anywhere. i need a tuner, or at least a scanner, but funds are tight

put in an upstream oxygen sensor in hopes of giving the pcm better fuel readings. obviously that wasn't it since it misses in open loop, but i figure i'll need it anyways. i'm running out of things that aren't internal. i'd love to put a scanner on it to watch a misfire counter, MAP and MAF readings, spark, ignition timing... but the tech2 stays at work, which i can't get the car to. i'm left with a fuel pressure regulator or faulty injectors, possibly a bad rail going by how long it sat. maybe a vac leak around the injectors, i can test that. but outside of that, it's going to be a leakdown test to check valve seating, and then re-timing the cam, neither of which i want to do

Borrow mine?

dude, that would be tits. you gonna be at work sometime this week?

I'll be there thursday and you could borrow it tonight BTW my cars done... I believe you owe me a small French fry

well ****, i missed this lol. what time thursday? i'll be in tipp from like 8 in the morning till 9 at night haha.

swing through the drive thru, ask for phil, drop off gauge, receive hot salty french fries lol

you need to ride in muh kar!!

I'm here all day I go in at 3 or 4 and leave around 8:30-9

just swing by before you go in, thats the time were slowest lol

alright its conected to my hud pod but so your just going to have to borrow that with it lol to lazy to take out