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Old Apr 9, 2006 | 03:11 PM
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Just Installed 42 SVO green tops, and reprogrammed the CPU with the Crane Power Max tuner. No SES codes but car will not always hold an idle. The 42# are like 49# at 58psi so I figuerd they where 70% larger than stock. There where no Idle issues before changing the injectors and programming the CPU. I really don't want to change the injectors back to stock to verify this. Alot of people are running the SVO, could it be a problem with the Crane Powermax Tuner? is 70% the right size increase? the problem is mostly when the engine is not all the way up to temp, but even when it is hot it sometimes has this problem.
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Old Apr 9, 2006 | 03:19 PM
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nope, flow doesn't increase linearly with sizing, the formula to use is
sqrt(newrating/oldrating)
so in your case it's sqrt(48.5/28.8)=1.2977 ~ 30% extra flow.
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Old Apr 9, 2006 | 04:39 PM
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Your best bet is to get in touch with Joe Vinci, I finally gave up on my crane tuner and got a RWTD custom dyno tune.
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Old Apr 9, 2006 | 07:49 PM
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Well I just returned the tune to stock, but left the 42#'s in the car. The car idled fine I slowly drove around the block and what do you know, no problem. So i reinstalled the tune but this time just for the injectors. No fuel added, no fan settings, nothing but injector size. The instructions say if your going from 24# to 32# to increase 30%
so I assume there math is 24 x 1.3 = 32 1.3=30% My numbers 28.8 x 1.7 = 48.96
and the idle problem returned. I'll be calling crane to see what their tech line thinks, I just thimk its funny the large injectors run better with the stock tune
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Old Apr 10, 2006 | 07:16 PM
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new size divided by old size gives percent change. 49/29 (rounding) = 1.68 or 68% change. have you tried 60% rather than 70%?? it may have went somewhat lean.
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Old Apr 10, 2006 | 07:55 PM
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for giggles, do a 30% change and tell us what happens. when i use another formula, it comes up with 30% as well. 28.8# / .7 (30% increase) = 41.4#
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ok, got pointed out where my math is off on the first formula. 28.8/48.5 = .59 then subtract that from 100. 100-59 = 41% change.

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I tried 40% more and so far so good. Engine was warm though. I'll try again in the morning and she how she does. I data logged the A/f and it was around 10.9 at 85% throttle and 5psi. Thanks for the suggestions and I'll let ya know later if it all works out I"d like to buy you a mrr23
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