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Inkdlyfe

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Feb 23, 2016
Summer feild, Florida
Alright so the other day i finally got my car back on the road and drove it will say like 20 miles at the most car ran fine kept it out of boost due to no tune and stock ecu etc, got to the location just fine till i pulled intoo the store, car started to stutter bad like a mis fire but got it to park examined everything noticed the 4th plug hole was filled with oil got them all cleaned off and started the car again but now throwing like every engine code and stuttering even worse like really bad couldnt go above 40 mph and barley could give it any acceleration.. finallly got her home checked everything again no oil this time but still stuttering and has no engine light now, what is the cause of that?

thought it was maybe stock injectors so put my 880 in now he car starts ok but wont idle on its own at all and has a bad gas smell its running relally rich like 10.4 on the afr,,, is this all only cause its out of tune or is there more to this ?

i am gettting fuel pressure for could my plug may have gone bad due to the amount of oil that was on them?

final question i noticed im leaking a very dark maybe oil or gas and whatever mixed out of the leak in the exhaust gasket and waste gate gasket before the plunger would that dark liquid be unburnt gas ?
 
Wow, a lot going on here.

First, your 880 injectors will never run the car well on the stock ecu, it doesn't know they have been changed. I'm surprised it even runs.

The oil in the plug well would cause a misfire, but that should have cleared up when you cleaned it out. Make sure you snapped the wires back on tight.

The liquid coming out of the exhaust could be raw fuel from you dumping so much fuel into the motor. Be sure to smell the oil before driving the car. Running that rich, fuel can get past the rings and into the pan.
 
so the plugs its self are ok or should i get new ones they seem fine visually,

and so for the injectors i do have a aem stand alone i think that is why it even starts up i ment stock ecu as in nothing added to it,

makes sense about the gas in the oil part so before i drive and after the tune imma do another oil change to it
 
Seems like it is not running on all cylinders. The oil could have caused the spark to jump to the outside of the plug. You should clean the spark plug boot good and apply a dielectric grease on the plug/boot. I would at least clean all spark plugs with startgas, or even better replace them after running that Rich...
If it still not runs on all, I would remove fuel injector Connectors one at a time to find which cylinder is missing and go from there. When idling and removing an injector that is ok, the engine will stall, or running very bad...
 
Alright so I changed my injectors back to stock and got new e3 plugs and it runs fine now, but the turbo seems to wine in stead of that suck sound also has no back release from the bov ? Why is this ? does idle perfect now tho
 
Sound like your next step is to do BLT. Report back after fixing all leaks you find.
 
I tighten all my cuplings I found 1 loose clamp after the turbo on the charge pipe, I do know i need a gasket for my exhaut mani to turbo and exhaust mani to waste gate would that matter ? Im building boost just So chatter imma double check after i see foam my engine and while I do that imma look for a leak
 
Please do your leak checking with your intake track pressurized a few psi more than your desired boost & using a soapy water spray bottle. Just looking for loose clamps is not a BLT.
 
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