my eyes are watering! is my car running rich? it may be a stupid question!
10-11-2010, 06:57 PM
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my eyes are watering! is my car running rich? it may be a stupid question! i'm posting this here because i think it's tune related and not just a fueling problem. just a quick maybe stupid question. do you think my car is running rich? if i have my car pulled in the garage (with the door open and back of the car facing out of course) and idling my eyes start to water from how thick it is. do you think it fumes building up or should it not be that bad? i am new to ls1's and i have only built carbureted cars prior to this one. i don't remember having this issue with any of those unless they were over jetted.
10-12-2010, 10:15 AM
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If it stings, it's more likely NOx. Which comes from lean
and excess timing.
Slow sensors can make you swing wide, and put you
alternately rich and lean while maintaining average
that reads right, but sucks for chunky soup.
An open loop car (like carb) will just sit in one spot.
and excess timing.
Slow sensors can make you swing wide, and put you
alternately rich and lean while maintaining average
that reads right, but sucks for chunky soup.
An open loop car (like carb) will just sit in one spot.
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10-13-2010, 05:33 PM
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2X
LEAN LEAN LEAN and a lean cause high HC's if you don't know.
If you are old like myself and you worked on carbed car you would know. Back in the day we may have close the choke partially while running the car and it never I repeat NEVER smelled as bad as a LEAN car
LEAN LEAN LEAN and a lean cause high HC's if you don't know.
If you are old like myself and you worked on carbed car you would know. Back in the day we may have close the choke partially while running the car and it never I repeat NEVER smelled as bad as a LEAN car
10-13-2010, 10:58 PM
#12
Also...if you have shitty O2 sensors and a cam that isn't as tiny as stock...as jimmyblue alluded...it will swing rich/lean VERY slowly in closed loop compared to fresh O2's and a stock cam...when the cam is bigger than stock, you need to be better about sensor maintenance...and if you're daring, you can futz with the closed loop PID stuff in the tune...but you should have some servo tuning background, or other Laplace transform (controls with closed loop feedback) background (or a LOT of time behind a laptop and EFI tuning software) before you delve in there.
10-14-2010, 05:32 PM
#14
Also...if you have shitty O2 sensors and a cam that isn't as tiny as stock...as jimmyblue alluded...it will swing rich/lean VERY slowly in closed loop compared to fresh O2's and a stock cam...when the cam is bigger than stock, you need to be better about sensor maintenance...and if you're daring, you can futz with the closed loop PID stuff in the tune...but you should have some servo tuning background, or other Laplace transform (controls with closed loop feedback) background (or a LOT of time behind a laptop and EFI tuning software) before you delve in there.
10-15-2010, 01:04 PM
#16
Launching!
Hrmm... bigger cam, unknown state of tune (VE, MAF models), smelling fuel and burning eyes... I'll take incomplete combustion for $1,000 Alex.
Injection timing may have some impact here, depending on your overlap and port velocity near idle. If you're tuning yourself, I'd start there then go back and revisit the VE surface (and MAF transfer) next.
Injection timing may have some impact here, depending on your overlap and port velocity near idle. If you're tuning yourself, I'd start there then go back and revisit the VE surface (and MAF transfer) next.
