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Old Jul 31, 2008 | 09:10 PM
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Hi folks- Ever since I did my h/c swap, my idle has been iffy at best.

Last week I was driving and lost the tach signal and the car had ZERO power. I could barely get up to 25mph. After a couple cycles the SES light went on and the code was crank sensor. So I replaced the crank sensor. The power and tach came back, but now my idle is terrible and white smoke is coming out of the exhaust. Here is a data log along with my tune.

Also, the car made 402hp on a 2000 z28 with trick flow 215s, 228/230 cam, and M6. Isn't that a little low?

Can anyone help?

-Pat
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Old Jul 31, 2008 | 09:13 PM
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think the head gasket went bad?
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Old Jul 31, 2008 | 10:12 PM
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It doesn't smell like coolant, and I don't think I'm low. I'll double check tomorrow.
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Old Aug 2, 2008 | 01:30 AM
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Coolant level is fine. Up for the latenight crow.
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Old Aug 5, 2008 | 01:14 AM
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odd... I just replied to a post about a flashing SES light...the problem i had started with the SES light and thick white smoke. along with that I had a few other issues, maybe something to watch for. funny if it would be the same problem for both of you. I copied the post over from the other thread.


I had a bad injector in my car when it was stock... it stumbled right off the line, had lost a lot of power, threw the SES code, and smoked thick white smoke like it was eating coolant until I got above 2-2500rpms. coolant was fine, turned out the injector stuck open and was flooding the cylinder with gas. it would eventually have a bad vibration, like a miss (imagine that) and the occasional backfire. We took an infrared temp light to each of the exhaust primaries on the manifold, and found the one that was running cool- it was noticably much colder than the others. replaced that injector, and presto

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