Thanks. Ive done a lot of projects in that shop already. I need a much bigger one though. The lift is probably the best $1800 ive ever spent but 2 lifts would really be great. And I badly need to have a spray booth.
Anyways I meant to describe the last week of the 3400 project...
Once I got my injectors I cleaned them up Ohm'ed em out installed new o rings and popped them in the rails. Everything looked good so I installed the assembly and hooked up the lines.
I primed the system to look for leaks and found one right away at the origional feed line under the crimp.
Luckily I found a nice set of lines on a car at the yard the next day. So once I got that on I tested the system again and had a leak where the return comes out of the rail. No bid deal. Replaced that o ring again and everything looked good.
So finally I bolted up the Im, TB, Coil packs all that crap and fired it up with no intake or IAT sensor. It ran but "idled" at 2500 and all the gauges were whacking out. So I put the intake on and started it back up and pulled out of the shop. It ran like crap! I had to give it gas to start it and every so often i had to blip the throttle to keep it alive.
I spent a while burping out the cooling system with the engine running loud as hell as it had only a 3" long (not wide) down pipe off the flange at the time when suddenly I noticed my new dex cool running out from under the passenger side. Oh good the heater core line is cracked.
So back in the shop we went. Lying upside down under the dash of a beretta with your back arched over the kick panel is always painful! It never gets less painful.
The next day I got it all back together and had it running again but it still didn't run right. But the gauges randomly started working properly one by one. And after chocking on exhaust for a while I gave up and towed the car to the muffler shop to quiet her down.
I got it back the following Friday and drove it to work running like crap hoping it was just bad gas or my ecu was a slow learner or something.
Saturday it got fresh gas and I bombed around a little but it never got better. Also with a full tank of gas it started leaking fuel from a hole that is evidently on the top of the tank. Good! Now I have to put a gas tank in this crapsandwich.
It would still die alot and was way over sensitive to throttle angle. It ran smooth for the most part and idle and WOT and not anywhere in between.
So I just started swapping parts. First the TPS then the IACV then I cleaned the old IACV then I messed with the 3 wire CTS because my fan had yet to come on...
Finally I noticed my 3100s MAP sensor in my spare parts box and went to swap that out. Thats when I noticed that my old plug off the harness was kind of crumbling apart and the locking clip had broken off. Plugged it back in and wire tied it on for the time being and it fired right up and ran perfect. I did a quick break torque in the driveway and lit the tires up for good measure. Ya the extra power is definitely noticeable.
I ordered a MAP plug from rock auto. It came in today. Wondering if I can unlock the pins and just swap the plug? I don't like splicing.
Now I have 2 issues left. I didn't realize my 04' motors oil pan doesn't have a oil level sensor. So next oil change Ill have to deal with that.
And Ill probably make another post but my cooling fan still hasn't come on! I jumped it to a "hot in run" spare terminal on the fuse block for now but ive tried letting the temp get up to 3/4 and it never came on. After searching this forum I unplugged my CTS to lie to the ecu and the fan comes right on so my circuit is good its just not calling for it. Wondering if my two temp. wires to the ecu could be crossed but I can't imagine that would matter.