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General Diagnose a Backfire

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roadtrip_69

15+ Year Contributor
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Apr 18, 2008
Cincinnati, Ohio
All, been tweaking fuel ratios and and fuel trims. Got all the trims dialed in better than ever. Have the rear 02 (wideband) within a couple percent of whats being called for. Knock is mostly non-existent. But when doing a pull, I'm getting a backfire. Where it pops out the exhaust, don't know if its followed by flames due to being too rich or not as I can't obviously see that while driving.

Logs look normal to me, with off throttle being pretty apparent, after I feel the backfire, I let off the throttle. Seems to occur at high boost, so there's that but also at only 50 percent throttle. Though to be honest I feel like that might not be accurate in logs as, as I was testing, I was giving it closer to 75-100 percent I feel.

Most mods are in my profile. But I have 850CC FIC injectors, upgraded fuel pump wiring, 20g turbo, Mishimoto FMIC, a 320 LPH fuel pump, aeromotive fuel pressure regulator, set to standard psi. I have replaced a bad ignition coil after I did get a couple misfires and codes. That seems to be resolved. I did upgrade spark plugs with NGK '8s' Iridium (I had copper '7's doing the same thing). Gapped at .028.

So I cant figure out for the life of me what is going on. In the past I wasn't even getting ANY knock, on the log I'm attaching I did have 2 instances of knock right next to each other. but even then only 3/4 counts respectively. Considering the boost level at the time. Not too bad. But even in the past before I got fuel management dialed in ?? and was getting knock a lot it would "stumble" but not back fire/pop(exhaust). So this is a new issue.

One more thing of note is I do have meth injection, that starts injecting at 10 psi, progressively till it hits the max the nozzle can put out at 26 PSI and there after.

Anybody have a similar issue or who can read logs better than I to determine what is actually going on. My IDC based on IPW doesn't look like I'm running out of fuel at all, so its baffling.

Log is from ECUFLASH

Thanks
 

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