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    Steve's Megasquirt/tunerstudio Help Thread

    I appreciate the quick response I sent you a pm. Thanks
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    Steve's Megasquirt/tunerstudio Help Thread

    I don't plan on really driving the car hard at all until i get it to the dyno. I just want to be safe for the next few weeks if I want to take the car out for quick drive,not planning on any wot runs.
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    Steve's Megasquirt/tunerstudio Help Thread

    Auto tune was not active when I saved the file. I did auto tune the other day just to get it driving. I followed the instructions they sent with the pnp box. I set the trigger angle to the number that matched 10 degrees on my balancer.
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    Steve's Megasquirt/tunerstudio Help Thread

    Steve can you take a look? Pretty new and lost here just got the iac to work somewhat today instead of hanging the idle at 2800rpm. I have major surge until the car gets up to temp even then still some. Car is a 331 with a v3 vortech 13psi non intercooled. I have just been gently driving around...
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    Random Misfire

    Happens cold and warm. As noted in the start of this I have performed a compression test and have 150 across all cylinders. I have to perform the balance test later this week. The car took 2 days of troubleshooting had to walk away for a few
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    Random Misfire

    Hey Mike I checked the fpr and did not smell any gas in the line like if the diaphragm was leaking by. I will give it a check with a hand pump. The car under load seems to reacting normal AFR wise. If I put it in high gear and give it some throttle with a heavy load afr goes rich down into the...
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    Random Misfire

    Plugs look normal gap is set to 35,they were replaced yesterday for testing,no change. The injectors are 60lbs with matching maf,vehicle was tuned for this combo on the dyno, the chip is saddled on the factory A9l ecu. Fuel pressure is my next test,I had to get a gauge with a hose to hook to the...
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    Random Misfire

    Having an issue with my fox. I have developed a random misfire. If I bring the car up to 1500 to 2000 with no load it misfires like crazy. I have tried two different distributors,cap,rotor,coil,compression test is 150 across the board, I have tried a different set of known good wires.I have...
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    No Spark

    ended up being a bad pick up in My "new" distributor once it got warm the car would shut down.This was my conclusion when the problem first started but didn't think the new part was bad. When it went into a no start no spark condition, I hooked up another distributor grounded it and spun it by...
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    No Spark

    Getting a code 15 ecu rom failure when I dump the codes
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    No Spark

    Update: left car in a no start condition last night went up this morning and the car started and ran,it was running ok for about 5 minutes then started to run like crap and run rich. The car got up to about 170 and just shut off again and back to the no start.It appears it is something heat...
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    No Spark

    I have been looking at the no start check list
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    No Spark

    Ok back to troubleshooting, Dropped a new dizzy in last night car fired right off set timing let it run for about 10 minutes car just shut off.Tried a few more times and it started again ran for a bit died again.I hit the ignition key very easy when it was running and it shut off. I figured ok...
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    85 vert painted

    hopefully this weekend I will get the time to wet sand it.I also have to put on all the the boor and body molding plus paint the bumper moldings back to black.
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    85 vert painted

    Finally got some paint on the car.Took 4 days about 12 hours a day working on it during a vacation.The car was sprayed in the driveway,got lucky and ended up with no bugs or dirt for the most part.The color is a black Cherry pearl metallic.I got to give a big Thanks to My Cousin for coming down...
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    charging issues

    I have a 91 5.0 with a 3g upgrade.When I run the a/c,contour electric fans,and lights at night,the charging system is taking a beating to the point that my lights will flicker at idle.Anyone ever have this issue.
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    Bad valve seals?

    With only 20,000 on the motor I doubt it is the valve seals.My guess would be to check the intake manifold gasket.
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    Guys ever hear of this?

    Yeah I have seen the balancers go bad with the rubber splitting and spinning,I have never seen the key way get widened out like that before.I already got another balancer on and everything seems fine.
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    Guys ever hear of this?

    1985 mustang 302 50 oz balancer and flywheel.Car started to appear to have a miss and vibration right off idle.Check all the normal things then with the timing light notice timing was way off.Rubber on balancer looked good,but I took the crank pulley off and i could feel the the balancer had...
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    Anybody ever use the stock TKO shifter?

    I have the stock tko shifter on my tko-500.It works decent but if you have the option to go aftermarket I would and I will soon.