Hey guys, I bought this 2001 mustang gt
(First car owned) and ive had some problems with it. When i got it the car was running extremely rich. Im thinking it had to have been like that for a while. I tracked the problem down to tha transmision swap that was done on the car before i got my hands on it.
They switched from auto to manual, but only switched the tranny and not the ecu. I baught the ecu and the car no longer runs rich. The problem is though, that when the car gets hots, it starts pre-detonating. I thought it was carbon build up That was causing the fuel mixture to detonate before time, but ive seafoamed it several times to clean out the carbon somewhat. The problem still exists though.
I am getting a few error codes
P1000
P0330
P0452
P0325
P0602
The P0330 i believe is for a knock sensor which would explain the timing issue, however, the sohc 4.6 does not have a knock sensor according to what ive found online. Im really not sure how to go on about fixing this.
Ive pulled the spark plugs several times and they have no carbon on them (aside from the first time i pulled them right after the ecu changing). They are clean now and as far as i can tell, healthy spark plugs (recently changed)
I do have a bama hand held tuner so i could adjust the timing myself somewhat but i dont have experience with that so id rather not.
If you have any advice i could really use it right now, im stumped with the whole knock sensor situation.
(First car owned) and ive had some problems with it. When i got it the car was running extremely rich. Im thinking it had to have been like that for a while. I tracked the problem down to tha transmision swap that was done on the car before i got my hands on it.
They switched from auto to manual, but only switched the tranny and not the ecu. I baught the ecu and the car no longer runs rich. The problem is though, that when the car gets hots, it starts pre-detonating. I thought it was carbon build up That was causing the fuel mixture to detonate before time, but ive seafoamed it several times to clean out the carbon somewhat. The problem still exists though.
I am getting a few error codes
P1000
P0330
P0452
P0325
P0602
The P0330 i believe is for a knock sensor which would explain the timing issue, however, the sohc 4.6 does not have a knock sensor according to what ive found online. Im really not sure how to go on about fixing this.
Ive pulled the spark plugs several times and they have no carbon on them (aside from the first time i pulled them right after the ecu changing). They are clean now and as far as i can tell, healthy spark plugs (recently changed)
I do have a bama hand held tuner so i could adjust the timing myself somewhat but i dont have experience with that so id rather not.
If you have any advice i could really use it right now, im stumped with the whole knock sensor situation.