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Old Aug 29, 2014 | 03:37 PM
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To things off I had a set of spare 241's laying around. They were ported & polished milled .030 along with a 5 angle valve job. I also went with a smaller compressed thickness gasket to help bump compression to 11.0:1. I'm using 7.350 pushrods with this set up. I still have my stock cam in it for now. Anyways after the swap I checked all ground wires and connections. Everything looked good. I also put an off road midpipe on it and ported my factory air box and throttle body on my 04 GTO. At first I was getting a DTC for random misfires took care of it when I went back over my rocker arms but got a MAF code as well. I tried cleaning it. I'm going to take the car to get it tuned but I need to get it running less rough first and dont know where to start. How can a simple head change throw so much off & I havent even put in a cam yet.
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Old Aug 29, 2014 | 04:13 PM
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Unplug the MAF.
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Old Aug 29, 2014 | 05:11 PM
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You DCR is probably really high with using the very small stock cam with the high SCR, so you probably have to much timing advance now.

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Old Aug 29, 2014 | 06:47 PM
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Thanks, This is exactly why I didnt put a cam in it yet & was going to do each mod piece by piece, in fear that the car would run like complete crap & I wouldnt be able to make the trip to get it tuned. Guess playing it safe backfired this time.
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Old Aug 31, 2014 | 09:22 PM
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The stock cam has very low DCR. Still, your timing probably is too high. If you'd put a better cam in, you would have likely had the same issues
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Old Sep 1, 2014 | 08:27 PM
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Which MAF code are you getting?
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