Flooding at idle

[BrandonDSM]

Alright, Car is a 1990 Eagle talon turbo.

I recently just finished installing some mods. Took me about 4 months to get everything on because I can only work on it one night a week at work.

Anyways, I have the car "running" It starts and runs, but it sounds like its misfiring pretty bad. If I take my foot off the gas, the car dies. My wideband reads 14.5-15.1 when I hold the idle at 1000. When I take my foot off, it runs, and then pops and dies. My wideband reads 17 when this happnes. I pulled my plugs out of curiosity and they were wet with gas. Mechanics at work think its flooding at idle. But what doesnt make sense is if it reads 17-1 wouldnt that be running lean?

Thanks for the help.

 

[killer_eclipse]

sounds to me like a maf problem. make sure you pluged it back in. Yes 17 on the wideband would be lean. do you have black smoke comeing out of the tail pipe and do you smell gas?

 

[BrandonDSM]

Maf is plugged in, and it's good. No black smoke, I can smell a little bit of gas, but not the amount that most people smell that I've been reading about. And no black smoke. A bit of white smoke if anything.

The car does backfire every now and again as well.

 

[95SleeperGST]

Look into how much fuel is being dropped in. sounds like not all of it is being burned at idle?

 

[BrandonDSM]

Thats what Im leaning towards, but when I rev it, it sounds like its missing or something. I still have to fiddle with the SAFC to get everything smoothed out, but if i cant keep it running I cant do that .

How do I check for that?

 

[BrandonDSM]

Any ideas? I really need my car going.

 

[boostNmetal]

You can always put the stock injectors back in and zero out the AFC to see if the car runs correctly. If it does, you have tuning issues. If it still runs crappy, then you have another issue.

 

[BrandonDSM]

Yeah, tried that already and didnt change at all.

 

[boostNmetal]

What kind of vacuum are you drawing when holding the engine at idle?

 

[BrandonDSM]

Holding it its at around 15 when I let off the gas it goes back to around 20, and then it dies.

 

[boostNmetal]

Well, you can have a variety of problems. One mod at a time then a test drive is always a good technique. I would uninstall the AFC, put in the stock injectors and see if that solves your problem. If it doesn't then look at common issues. Do you have a check engine light on?

 

[BrandonDSM]

No check engine lights at all. And no codes when I scan it at work.

And thanks for the suggestion, but I have already tried that. I changed everything back to stock except for the intercooler, and I still have the same problem.