Help with cam!!!!
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Help with cam!!!!
I have a 2002 WS6 Trans Am and got a MS4 cam installed and tuned last week and my car wont quit dying when I drive!!! Its so frustrating!! I have spent so much money and it is not running right. It mainly cuts off when put in drive and reverse and when slowing down or stopping. So basically all the time! I keep getting told it is because my clamps are POS's and leaking real bad causing my car to run bad. I do not know what to do. I have a loudmouth y pipe and it is sounding bad when I give it gas. I dont know if I need to get a x pipe dual or what I have a Yank SS 3600 stall, and pacesetter headers. The car has been tuned twice and he said it willo not be tuned properly until the exhaust is fixed. Any suggestions?? I am hoping it is just the exhaust and not something else.
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yeah that def. sounds like a tuning error... i mean even if every single primary was leaking at the flange, that would not cause your car to die, just sounds like a terd while driving... i'd get my money back and take it elsewhere...
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True story about XHP. They couldn't even tune a set up they spec'd and built. It had the sake issues that the OP described plus it dies on me twice at highway speeds when I pushed in the clutch. Talk about dangerous to lose good steering and brake contol at 65.
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We check everything mechanically before tuning. If the car has exhaust leaks or vacuum leaks we fix them. If you tune with leaks all your data is CRAP.
Is it the sole reason the car is dieing NO. But its not helping.
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You can be leaking 6-8" away from a front 02 and its going to make the pcm dump fuel. I dont care if its a pin hole. If the sensor sees raw air it will add to the fuel trims. Which can make startup very rich.
We check everything mechanically before tuning. If the car has exhaust leaks or vacuum leaks we fix them. If you tune with leaks all your data is CRAP.
Is it the sole reason the car is dieing NO. But its not helping.
We check everything mechanically before tuning. If the car has exhaust leaks or vacuum leaks we fix them. If you tune with leaks all your data is CRAP.
Is it the sole reason the car is dieing NO. But its not helping.
Notice how all the people saying it's the tuning don't tune cars? On top of that you stuck a HUGE cam in your 346 auto car. Good luck with that.
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You can be leaking 6-8" away from a front 02 and its going to make the pcm dump fuel. I dont care if its a pin hole. If the sensor sees raw air it will add to the fuel trims. Which can make startup very rich.
We check everything mechanically before tuning. If the car has exhaust leaks or vacuum leaks we fix them. If you tune with leaks all your data is CRAP.
Is it the sole reason the car is dieing NO. But its not helping.
We check everything mechanically before tuning. If the car has exhaust leaks or vacuum leaks we fix them. If you tune with leaks all your data is CRAP.
Is it the sole reason the car is dieing NO. But its not helping.
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You can be leaking 6-8" away from a front 02 and its going to make the pcm dump fuel. I dont care if its a pin hole. If the sensor sees raw air it will add to the fuel trims. Which can make startup very rich.
We check everything mechanically before tuning. If the car has exhaust leaks or vacuum leaks we fix them. If you tune with leaks all your data is CRAP.
Is it the sole reason the car is dieing NO. But its not helping.
We check everything mechanically before tuning. If the car has exhaust leaks or vacuum leaks we fix them. If you tune with leaks all your data is CRAP.
Is it the sole reason the car is dieing NO. But its not helping.
I didn't say the o2's can't hurt the tune I simply said that is not her problem. The way she described when and how it's dying is not a problem with fuel trims.
If someone with enough experience tuned the car it would idle fine in the same condition it's in now.
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I do have a o2 thats stripped and leaking (im replacing tommorrow btw) but anyways when the check engine light comes on and off we put it on a programmer and it said lean bank 1 and rich bank 2???
Do you think it could be the o2 causing this? or the tune?