Funny story about that. On my 2nd Fox (91gt auto, 191k miles) after some spirited driving it would smoke and smell like coolant. By the time I opened the hood you couldn't see any smoke. Took it to a mechanic, he puts pressure to it and says "Coolant is coming from your intake gaskets" ok cool. In the process of replacing said intake gaskets and fiddling with some other maintenance stuff the motor started knocking. After the rebuild and about $3k I still had the same issue with smoke and coolant. Come to find out there was a pin hole in the heater hose and it was spraying coolant on my lower intake.........I vote heater hose
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Since my dyno tune was right before I hit the road on vacation I didn't have much time to really think about my experience with Holland Performance and the tuning session. During my vacation and a over 3,000 miles of driving I'm left feeling disappointed and lucky my car didn't blow up. If it wasn't for Steve @a91what for putting in some safety in my tune for pulling timing based on manifold air temperature I'm sure my engine would have died from this guy. The tuner never took a data log, never checked IAT's, never accounted that in to his tune. He kept adding timing while the PIMP was pulling it!! My tune is still pig rich when boost hits at 2,200 rpms with a 7.7 AFR that finally gets to 11.8-12.2 at 4,400+ rpms and then holds steady. I know the numbers improved greatly on the dyno from start to finish but I left with a surging idle (too lean at idle 16+), super rich at cruising (12.2 AFR), and decel is rich too. I'm having to clean it all up after handing him a bunch of cash.
True, he expanded the table to include that for some reason. Also, you see how much fuel there is at 2,200 to 2,700 rpms above 100 load? I get super rich from a steep increase in fuel until I get to the 70's at 4,600 rpms where my AFR finally gets to target.
I got a minute to look under the hood yesterday and it looks like my coolant overflow bottle (vitamin water bottle) over flowed. Simple fix, non-issue.
My buddy came over with his car to pick up my 2.5" pulley for his car. He has a 347 motor, AFR renegade heads and Kenne Bell 2.2L, TKO 600 trans etc, car is sweet but has some mismatched parts like a frickin BBK 65mm throttle body as well as some other things
Sorry to get your hopes up bro, the search continues in our area for an honest and competent tuner.
He's the one that owns the shop
It's crazy and upsetting. I remember when he was driving my car and he was romping on it over and over and he was saying the car doesn't feel as fast as it did when we first hit the road. I told him the ECU is pulling timing due to heat soak and high IAT's, he replied "can we make it not do that"? My IAT's got as high as 224* and he wants to stop the computer from pulling timing!
This is why I set my base tunes up with safety in mind. Even the a9l pulls timing above 180*He's the one that owns the shop
