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Old 02-11-2012, 10:57 PM
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It's alive!!

Finally, I was able to get the engine going. I got the EFI ecu back two days ago from FAST. Good customer service over there. They said three circuit boards got fried due to bad grounding...which was surprising to me as the harness is pretty simple, and I was pretty diligent when putting it in, anyways. So I took the harness off, checked it, didn't really find anything, and re-installed everything. I tried to start it last night when I got done but it did not want to fire up... Checked the tach signal, msd box, etc... Pretty frustrating. In the morning I wanted to trouble shoot the problem by putting some gas directly in the stacks. If it fired up the. It would be a fuel problem, if not, most likely an ignition problem. I did that and it fired right up and continue running! What a feeling! It sounds so good with those pipes, althoug it is running like crap (super rich). The really crappy part is that it was all "tuned" on the dyno but with the new box it is back to zero. Just means more driving around I guess
Tonight I started it up again and let it warm up to the 180f on the water temp needed for the ecu to start "learning/tuning", which was hard to do in 15f weather, with the garage doors open, and me getting high on fumes, but it was so worth it

Alright, I'm done with my rambling. Here is the vid.

Cobra Start - YouTube
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