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it was tuned before i got the car and i havent upgraded anything that would mess with the tune
Did you disconnect the battery for any reason? A 2g will lose its tune if the battery is disconnected.
 
Being that the car is tuned for the injectors you have, how do you know its gas and not oil burning out the exhaust again?
You said in your first post it might be either, you weren"t sure. Do you smell fuel or oil?
Did you ever take a look at your plugs or are you dead set on it being to much fuel?
If you know how to read your plugs they will tell you alot, including whether your running lean, rich or burning oil.

By the way that narrow band is junk, get a wideband.
 
Since you dont know how to tune for what you have...
1) pay someone to tune it for you
2) buy a wideband and research how to tune it
3) take you massive injectors off put on stock ones and set your fuel pressure to stock.

Either way your ganna have to spend money to get your car right. Id say just pay someone who knows DSM link to get it set for you. That is, assuming everything else on your car is correct and in good order.
 
Discussion starter · #25 ·
Did you disconnect the battery for any reason? A 2g will lose its tune if the battery is disconnected.
I have had to replace the battery and to have new terminals and hook up the wire on the positive and ground better, i installed a new alternator so yes i have disconnected the battery, so your saying since i have disconnected the battery, my car isnt tuned anymore?
 
Discussion starter · #26 ·
Being that the car is tuned for the injectors you have, how do you know its gas and not oil burning out the exhaust again?
You said in your first post it might be either, you weren"t sure. Do you smell fuel or oil?
Did you ever take a look at your plugs or are you dead set on it being to much fuel?
If you know how to read your plugs they will tell you alot, including whether your running lean, rich or burning oil.

By the way that narrow band is junk, get a wideband.
Somone already told me that the black smoke is the fuel, so i am running rich as far as i was told
 
Discussion starter · #27 ·
Since you dont know how to tune for what you have...
1) pay someone to tune it for you
2) buy a wideband and research how to tune it
3) take you massive injectors off put on stock ones and set your fuel pressure to stock.

Either way your ganna have to spend money to get your car right. Id say just pay someone who knows DSM link to get it set for you. That is, assuming everything else on your car is correct and in good order.
Well it was already tuned for what i have but i was just told if i have disconnected my battery then my car loses its tune??? But im not trying to argue or anything but if i just tune my car to my injectors like it used to be then it should be fine correct? But i just dont have ethe money for a wideband at the moment and also i gotta set my FPR to 43.5ish (what i was told by a guy that said thats where it is suppost to be or where his is) but mine is at 35
 
Well, was the car running good before you did the battery and alternator change? If so, and you can retune to where it was, then yes do that. If it wasnt good before that, then you need a real tune.
 
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Ya i mean it is still working good right now as far as i know, i was told im running a little rich and that i need to turn my FPR up but i might run a little richer or something but is running rich bad?
 
Yes, it creates more gunk in the intake and pistons and valves because too rich and your not burning your fuel, so its getting sent and sucked back and regurgitated everywhere. Plus you loose power with a over rich tune. Lean is power, rich is safe (well safer still bad in the long run). Plus you loose milage, black smoke rich is no good for you. Put it that way.

I never had DSMlink so if Jmonet1620 says you loose your tune when the battery is disconnected, I believe him. I would retune for what it was before and see what that does. Couldnt hurt.
 
Discussion starter · #31 ·
Yes, it creates more gunk in the intake and pistons and valves because too rich and your not burning your fuel, so its getting sent and sucked back and regurgitated everywhere. Plus you loose power with a over rich tune. Lean is power, rich is safe (well safer still bad in the long run). Plus you loose milage, black smoke rich is no good for you. Put it that way.

I never had DSMlink so if Jmonet1620 says you loose your tune when the battery is disconnected, I believe him. I would retune for what it was before and see what that does. Couldnt hurt.
O ok well thats just crazy that it just loses it tune like that but i just gotta find someone that knows how to tune it for me because i have no idea on hoqw to do that
 
If you bought link yourself you should have access to the ecmtuning website. There are video tutorials to help you set up link and a whole lot of more info in the wiki's. You can set your injector size and fuel psi in link and drive just keep the boost down and don't be doing any WOT pulls. If you plan on tuning it yourself get a wideband first. A narrow band is not totally useless though you can tune your idle and light cruise with it. It just will do you no good for WOT since it is only accurate within +/-1 of 14.9 a/f.
 
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