I will hit 12.9 with a bolt on L98
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Car: 91 B4C "police special service"
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Re: I will hit 12.9 with a bolt on L98
what altitude or what corrected altitude are you running at......I had many same mods but didn't run near that..
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It is at 1200 ft altitude but the density altitude that day was 188 ft. 49 degree air helps ![Smilie](https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/images/smilies/smile.gif)
And this was a 160K mile stock L98 longblock. Never touched heads/cam or anything else but the intake/pullies and rocker arms.
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And this was a 160K mile stock L98 longblock. Never touched heads/cam or anything else but the intake/pullies and rocker arms.
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Re: I will hit 12.9 with a bolt on L98
bolt on l98 running 12's? with stock l98 o83 heads??????????
wtf? im trying figure out how to redo my tpi build......my mild cam/built bottom end tpi 333ci(327 bored out)
sadly i cant figure out whats wrong and its running mid 15's...its pulling timing at 100% throttle and its NOT the KNOCK sensor doing it
its right at 29.9 of spark advance when pulling though the high rpm ranges
wtf? im trying figure out how to redo my tpi build......my mild cam/built bottom end tpi 333ci(327 bored out)
sadly i cant figure out whats wrong and its running mid 15's...its pulling timing at 100% throttle and its NOT the KNOCK sensor doing it
its right at 29.9 of spark advance when pulling though the high rpm ranges
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Its not the knock sensor? usually there is a table that will pull timing based on if the knock sensor starts to sense any knock levels. It may not show a knock count but it will pull timing because its there to prevent serious knock. it picks up stuff you cant hear.
I'd take that table and lower the values so its only able to pull out 2-3 degrees timing.
But only do that after you play with the air fuel and total timing. If the motor only wants 30 degrees, then thats all you can run. But my guess is it should like more timing than that. Get the air fuel in the 12.8 to 1 range and it should be ok for most timing requirements up to 36 degrees.
Also make sure you run some decent gas, 93 octane helps to ensure you have no detonation
I'd take that table and lower the values so its only able to pull out 2-3 degrees timing.
But only do that after you play with the air fuel and total timing. If the motor only wants 30 degrees, then thats all you can run. But my guess is it should like more timing than that. Get the air fuel in the 12.8 to 1 range and it should be ok for most timing requirements up to 36 degrees.
Also make sure you run some decent gas, 93 octane helps to ensure you have no detonation
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Re: I will hit 12.9 with a bolt on L98
Its not the knock sensor? usually there is a table that will pull timing based on if the knock sensor starts to sense any knock levels. It may not show a knock count but it will pull timing because its there to prevent serious knock. it picks up stuff you cant hear.
I'd take that table and lower the values so its only able to pull out 2-3 degrees timing.
But only do that after you play with the air fuel and total timing. If the motor only wants 30 degrees, then thats all you can run. But my guess is it should like more timing than that. Get the air fuel in the 12.8 to 1 range and it should be ok for most timing requirements up to 36 degrees.
Also make sure you run some decent gas, 93 octane helps to ensure you have no detonation
I'd take that table and lower the values so its only able to pull out 2-3 degrees timing.
But only do that after you play with the air fuel and total timing. If the motor only wants 30 degrees, then thats all you can run. But my guess is it should like more timing than that. Get the air fuel in the 12.8 to 1 range and it should be ok for most timing requirements up to 36 degrees.
Also make sure you run some decent gas, 93 octane helps to ensure you have no detonation
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im gonna try one last thing and thats a 3 wire heated 13077 bosch o2 sensor. Supposedly long tubes and 1 wire o2 sensors dont mix and make motor thinks its richer than it really is. Right now at wot it is anywhere from 11.8 to 12.3, YES really rich....so you think. There is no black smoke from the pipes under acceleration and the car will not restart hot. Its not the ign module due to everything is brand new minus the Lt1 injectors.
If someone wants to fix the car im willing to pay....im not kidding at ALL!!!!
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sounds like you need a better tune. O2 sensor wont help at WOT but can help at cruise/idle.
Restarting on hot coolant is a problem if its running too rich. You will want to lean the startup enrichment tables down some in the hot coolant temp ranges
Restarting on hot coolant is a problem if its running too rich. You will want to lean the startup enrichment tables down some in the hot coolant temp ranges
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Re: I will hit 12.9 with a bolt on L98
I had all the same bolts on you did, ran low 14's, high 13's but I'm at 3000 ft or something like that....
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Re: I will hit 12.9 with a bolt on L98
So im ordering a set of injectors from southbay injectors...hope they are fast with shipping
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friend added some timing to the timing map and car loved it. The 327 ran best at 34* back when it was carb'd. Tpi should run better being more precise fuel injection.
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As a quick test to see if an injector is working, you can always give it 12v and a ground and listen to it click.
When I was getting my GTA going, the LT1 that went in hadn't been fired in nearly 7 years (I discovered this after I bought it)
Every injector except #7 was stuck and not responding. Good thing I had a spare set of Ford SVO 24# Injectors. I swapped them in and wala. The engine fired.
When I was getting my GTA going, the LT1 that went in hadn't been fired in nearly 7 years (I discovered this after I bought it)
Every injector except #7 was stuck and not responding. Good thing I had a spare set of Ford SVO 24# Injectors. I swapped them in and wala. The engine fired.
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Re: I will hit 12.9 with a bolt on L98
As a quick test to see if an injector is working, you can always give it 12v and a ground and listen to it click.
When I was getting my GTA going, the LT1 that went in hadn't been fired in nearly 7 years (I discovered this after I bought it)
Every injector except #7 was stuck and not responding. Good thing I had a spare set of Ford SVO 24# Injectors. I swapped them in and wala. The engine fired.
When I was getting my GTA going, the LT1 that went in hadn't been fired in nearly 7 years (I discovered this after I bought it)
Every injector except #7 was stuck and not responding. Good thing I had a spare set of Ford SVO 24# Injectors. I swapped them in and wala. The engine fired.
Im buying a set of 24lb Ford motor sport racing injectors
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Re: I will hit 12.9 with a bolt on L98
turned out im a noob to the lame TPI computer tuning from GM stock. the timing map is setup only to ramp to 29.9 degrees of advance. I cut my teeth on LT1's and tuning them and they have 43 degrees of advance and its progressive. The L98 map is retardedly low so owners could run 87 octance it seems. I had a friend and TGO member 1MeanZ bump my timing chart up to max of 31* and motor was much happier
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