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I had an issue where when I was cruising for some distance my tune was running rich and fouling plugs. Around town was fine but any highway use it was playing up next day on cold start. I backed the map off only slightly on that fuel cell and it has fixed the problem. Just thought i would mention that sounds it could be the same

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Definitely a possibility, if I was to pull the plugs after a failed idle when I start it how could I tell if they are fouled easily?

Actually the only times the car idled well was when we first put the injectors in, then it went to shit, and then I changed the plugs before the tune and it was shit after that, then came good for a week then went shit again.

Maybe they have just fouled up badly.

Edited by Rolls

Is ur fuel pressure stable? Ie has the pump been rewired to battery voltage?

Is 02 feedback enabled?

If u have the software or consult keep a close eye on inj duty when idle is good and when idle is playing up. Let me know the readings

Fuel pump is new and rewired to battery voltage, O2 feedback is enabled as well, just need to borrow a laptop so I can run consult again.

Does anyone know what the "Fuel Dumper" is? as I did not get this part when I bought my fuel rail, is it a dampener of some sort? Perhaps this could be my issue.

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Seems like a misfire when cold, cannot figure out why though, really need to get a wideband in the exhaust to see if it is going lean/rich or if it is super rich at idle fouling the plugs.

Bummer because I have neither a wideband, nor a nistune license.

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Rolls my idle sounds very similar to yours.

I idle at around 1400-1500 when cold and it hunts randomly and sits there missing until warm.

Once warm idle drops to around 700 and them every now and then hunts but does not miss.

If you take it for a drive when cold

As you take your foot off and coast you can feel it missing.

All goes away when warm

Hmm this morning it was much much better, I didn't drive the car yesterday at all so it must have been completely stone cold, still did a slight miss for 3 seconds then come good for 3 seconds but it didn't want to stall, just went from 1300rpm to 1000-1100rpm.

Tonight it was back shit again wanting to stall from 1300 to 400rpm.

I have my laptop back so I will plug in consult and do a dump of injectors/afm etc vs rpm when its cold see if it is an ECU or mechanical problem, I personally think it is fouling the plugs up from possibly too rich an idle.

Is ur fuel pressure stable? Ie has the pump been rewired to battery voltage?

Is 02 feedback enabled?

If u have the software or consult keep a close eye on inj duty when idle is good and when idle is playing up. Let me know the readings

Ok did a log when cold, when at 1200rpm the duty cycle is 1-2 and pulse width is 2.2ms, when it stumbles duty is 1 and pulse width grows to 2.5ms all the way to 3ms when it starts missing badly, timing changes from 30 to 34 when stumbling, acc duty increases slightly.

Stab the throttle and it goes back to 1200 and duty at 2, pulse at 2.2ms, starts to stumble and go up to 2.8ms etc.

Would this be as simple as just changing the cold start enrichment at 20-30c so it is slightly less rich? I'm going to buy a license next month so will have a fiddle then.

So I am guessing the cold start is just simply too rich

Edited by Rolls

Its possible. Bust never assume its too rich without having a wideband to tell u afr.

The timing doesn't seem right. It should not be at 30 degree's at idle. That tells me ur tps may not be setup correctly. Try dropping the tps back a tad ie: if its at .5 try .46

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