Cammed LC9 running like a bag of Weiners
I'll start off with the obvious. This isn't an LS1 but I know there are some very smart people on here who might be able to help me out.
I'm running an avalanche with the aluminum LC9 5.3l. It has the following engine mods.
Texas stage 3 high lift truck cam 216/220 with the 0.600 lift and 110 LSA
Stage 2.5 ported heads by Texas speed as well.
Fast lsxrt intake manifold 103mm with fast lsxrt bullet fuel rails.
Nick Williams throttle body 102mm
Long tube speed engineering headers with a true dual 3 inch exhaust system
Aus injection 44# injectors.
Enclosed aftermarket cold air intake
I may be missing a few small things. But those are the major mods. I had it dyno tuned in June of 2022 and it ran great until It went to the shop a couple weeks ago where they fixed a couple small leaks around the oil pan and oil filter housing. They also fixed a leak on an aftermarket derale remote trans cooler.
They swear up and down that they didn't touch the intake manifold in any way, they dropped the front diff to repair the leaks on the oil pan and filter housing. They also tried cleaning the throttle body to see if it would help but didn't clean up the idle at all. I'm not trying to pin anything on the shop, just want my truck running well again.
It immediately runs lean (higher then my aem wideband reads) when I fire it up and it chops like it's got a monster cam in it. Once it starts trying to add fuel to it (as the ltfts show in the pic) the wideband reads normal but it reeks like pure gasoline. I've tried doing a leak test on the intake manifold (smoke machine without uv dye) I didn't notice any leaks at all. I also tried reuploading the tune from when it was dynoed and still runs like a bag of ***.
Anyone have any recommendations? Where do I go from here. Anything looks way out of whack on any of the sensors? Map/maf Ect.
I also have the full vcm file saved to my computer as well. As a previous one. Should also mention, the truck seems to run much better when under load.
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