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Old Oct 15, 2004 | 06:37 PM
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I have the D-1SC.Every since it was installed it pop's & shoots flames on cold start-up. It only does this 3-4 times then it goes away and idle's fine. Anyone have an answer what might be causing this?

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Old Oct 15, 2004 | 08:21 PM
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Old Oct 15, 2004 | 09:32 PM
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i have the popping problem on my stock trans am ws6; guess its just cold and its running rich so it doesn't quite burn all the fuel, so it re-ignites in the exhaust. the whole shootin flames part i don't know about, prolly runnin a LOT rich from a tune. I could be wrong tho.
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Old Oct 17, 2004 | 10:15 AM
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my car also did this and it turned out that the plate on my intake on the bottom was leaking. it was a weiland intake but if it is i stock intake i am not sure why
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Old Oct 17, 2004 | 11:33 AM
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My exhaust pops when cold also, but has done it since new and before and after the turbo.
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Old Oct 17, 2004 | 01:41 PM
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If you jave flames coming from your exaust > you are running way to rich at cold start. I'm no expert on tuning > but I'm sure you can fix that some how. What have you changed in your fuel system? Have you changed your plugs? You might be running with to hot of a plug too. I get something like a NGK TR6 or TR5. Good luck!
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I'm running NGK TR6
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Old Oct 18, 2004 | 06:54 PM
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If you have a chance, take you car to a dealership and have them check your a/f mixture with a tech 2 > or if you have a friend with EFI live or autotap. Something is not right! Poping is pretty normal, flames > bad.
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You see blue flames inside the tailpipe at night.
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Old Oct 18, 2004 | 10:09 PM
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Sound like your tune is off in open loop(cold startup,warm start)Probly way too rich.Also an exhaust leak could cause backfires.
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flames/popping = rich.

Our motors are cal'd to be rich on cold start from the factory.
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Old Oct 19, 2004 | 10:49 AM
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Yeah I hate when that happens. As said before, check your a/f ratio and tune your after-idle a/f ratio to whatever it is before warm up. That'll get rid of that stupid "quiet" exhaust and keep u popping all day.


Oh.... wait a sec.... u mean that the popping/ banging/ flame shooting is the problem?....
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