short udpate…
The car is still at the shop back in Canada, getting small issues taken care of, and troubleshooting misfires on cylinder 4 and 5. We didnt put the tune on it, because you never want to put a tune on a car that is not running right to begin with.
One of the things that is prime suspect for the misfires is the fuel injectors. We had new coil packs and spark plugs, plus a carbon clean, when the car was in Detroit. So, those were all ruled out. I would have had the injectors swapped earlier, except that they are pretty expensive when you are buying ten new ones.
Well, the guys finally pulled them last week, and reported that four out of the ten fell apart when removed. It is pretty much certain that they were still the original ones, so it is a good chance that they were the source of the problem.
We were thinking of doing a rebuild of them before we saw their condition, but because of the age and mileage, I decided to go with all new units. Should have them in within the next couple of weeks, and hopefully that will solve the misfire issues.
Once the car is running right, Ill finally get the ECU and TCU tune on the car, that I have been waiting SOOOOO long for. Its been a long journey (coming up to two years) but I can finally see that we are getting close to completion.
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