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Old Apr 14, 2007 | 10:15 PM
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Got Pacesetter LTs and ORY, o2 extension and 2 o2 simulators installed and drove home at 6pm yesterday (20 minute ride). Didn't have Service Engine Soon light, but it's on today. I do smell the exhaust and has fuel smell (rich).

I haven't had it tuned yet, so am I all right and is this normal.
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Old Apr 14, 2007 | 10:16 PM
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get it scanned and give us the codes
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Old Apr 14, 2007 | 10:23 PM
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I forgot to ask is it normal to get a Viagra effect when you first drive the car? Seems like it's an all natural option for us dudes who might need the help now and then... Man is my wife really gonna be jealous...
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Old Apr 14, 2007 | 10:25 PM
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no thats not normal, that only happens when you get a heads/cam put in
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Old Apr 14, 2007 | 10:27 PM
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I guess some of us like a cheap thrill...but I'm gonna get the codes and she should be going in this week for a complete tune. I was kind of hoping to get the underdrive pulley in first.
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Old Apr 14, 2007 | 10:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Rokn Red
Got Pacesetter LTs and ORY, o2 extension and 2 o2 simulators installed and drove home at 6pm yesterday (20 minute ride). Didn't have Service Engine Soon light, but it's on today. I do smell the exhaust and has fuel smell (rich).

I haven't had it tuned yet, so am I all right and is this normal.
Did you get headers with emissions hookups? Were the AIR/EGR systems hooked back up? (I forget which yeras had which emissions, but you have AIR and/or EGR)

O2 sims don't always work properly. When I installed my headers one of the O2 sims was bum, and a year later the other one went bad.

Headers usually make the car run a little rich before being tuned, and with no cats the excess fuel doesn't get burned up.

I don't think the pulley will have much, if any, effect regarding tuning.
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Old Apr 14, 2007 | 10:48 PM
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Did get LTs with emmissions, did I leave out it's a 2002 WS6? Some of us rookies. First, I cream myself driving the car for the first time with LTs and then can't answer right...

I'm not panicing much, just want my girl to stay 100% tight...
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Old Apr 15, 2007 | 09:02 AM
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Better get it scanned, check all your connections. If you hooked the A.I.R. system back up you shouldn't have a SES light. Possibly a plug wire not on all the way and getting a misfire code or something. I think that happens to some. Possibly a bad O2 sim also, that happended on my GTP once.
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Got it scanned, came up with a P0135 code...
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Got it scanned, came up with a P0135 code...
Thats bank 1 sensor 1, thats why it smells so bad. The front O2's are what the vcm reads.
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Figured it was one of them...she'll be going in for a full tune this week...
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Originally Posted by Rokn Red
Got Pacesetter LTs and ORY, o2 extension and 2 o2 simulators installed and drove home at 6pm yesterday (20 minute ride). Didn't have Service Engine Soon light, but it's on today. I do smell the exhaust and has fuel smell (rich).

I haven't had it tuned yet, so am I all right and is this normal.

It may not be as much rich as it could be lean. You never know. Everyone just assumes that they are extremely rich after headers.
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Old Apr 15, 2007 | 08:31 PM
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Let's just say it smells like the cars of the 60s early 70s...but a good hot rod smell
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