DSMTyson
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Lake Charles,
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A vacuum leak causes you to run slightly lean at part throttle, and very rich under boost.
Thanks, I just figured out the mystery of the 17:1 idle on my car...

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A vacuum leak causes you to run slightly lean at part throttle, and very rich under boost.

with the car running pull on injector pigtail off at a time to figure out which one is the problem the injector is stuck closed that could be the cause of all your problems
Ok Im only firing 3 injectors. #4 injectorisnt firing. Bad injector? or something else?
the 17:1 is because u have a dead cylinder
I was hitting bad fuel cut because I installed the wrong Walbro, I guess there is a difference between 1g and 2g. Did you get the screw that holds the walbro from going up and down (I think its on the bottom if I remember right). As soon as I started building boost the fuel pump would push itself away from the o-ring and bam lean and fuel cut.
Also 2nd thing is I didn't catch what BOV your running but I had a bad o-ring in the bov that didn't show itself except for when it wanted to.
Uh, you realize that fuel cut has nothing to do with fuel, right? You could have kept the stock fuel pump in there, or put a pump in there that supports 1000hp, and your results would have been the same. Fuel cut is based on air, not fuel. Please don't post if you don't know what you are talking about.
And all that bullshit about boost and the fuel pump "pushing" itself away from the O-ring.....good lord. The INSTANT you turn the car on, if the o-ring was bad, it would leak fuel and you would have shit fuel pressure. Boost has NOTHING to do with that at all.
Go read up before you spew anymore mis-information. Thank you.
Pictured is the screw that I didn't have installed, second picture is where the fuel pump seats into the mount. Below 3500 rmp's fuel pressure was normal, as soon as car started making boost (3500k) AFR shot max lean and the car would buck, backfire and no further. Installed the correct walbro with the screw and no more lean spike and fuel pressure stayed normal through redline.