what can cause a lean condition besides tune
here is a vid i made showing what the readings are
I have my car set to run at stoich at anything other than WOT once it's warmed up. But with PE on WOT, it goes to 12.5. Cheap and easy first, check your TPS and TB to see if you're going to full WOT. If your PCM doesn't see 100% throttle, it won't go into enrichment.
I notice you said "full bolt ons." Stock TB? LS1 or LS6 intake? Bump stop mod done to the TB? If not, there's your problem.
http://www.installuniversity.com/ls1...-stop-mod.html
Last edited by bayer-z28; Jun 17, 2012 at 08:48 PM.
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EDIT: After reading more posts...I agree its probably the tune.
Last edited by minytrker; Jun 17, 2012 at 11:53 PM. Reason: edit
to the guys actually trying to help me thank you.
bayer- it has a ls6 intake with a stock tb that i ported and polished a lil bit. i did not get anywhere close to the blade all i really did is take the edges out of it an smooth it out a lil and then polish it. i did not do the bump stop mod.
i think it is a problem with the tune myself. when i switched over to a t-56 i had my buddy flash my pcm over to a m6 os, but he just used a tune from his car when he was bolt ons like me and then we did a wot run and was reading 13.6 aft through the narrow bands with no knock or anything so we called it good and never thought about it until i noticed i was getting terrible gas mileage (around 270 a tank or 18mpg) and i drive mostly highway 20 miles one way to work. so i did all the normal things to fix the bad gas millage issue, replace fuel filter, plugs, clean maf, tb, and ran some sea foam threw it and nothing helped so i bought the wideband and new tr55's and msd wires, and this is where we sit now until i can meet up with my buddy and look at what the car is doing.
if i was getting 14.3 afr at wot this whole time shouldn't i have blown im engine by now, i go wot at least once every day.
was your friends' car the same year? 2000 for instance got smaller injectors so if you flashed a 2002 tune that'll be way off, etc.
Maybe shop around for a used AutoTap or old EFILive scan-only kit for cheap, it will pay for itself in shop labor avoided.
edit: or for $50 or so get a universal scanner cable like these: http://www.scantool.net/
It's possible that your narrowband sensor(s) feeding the gauge are simply reporting errors, because they are only built to switch at stoich. You need a wideband O2 sensor if you want accurate air:fuel ratio data.






