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Old Oct 23, 2011 | 07:10 PM
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I have a 94 corvette lt1 that I swapped. The comp. was "tuned" before I bought the motor and ran fine. The motor sat for roughly 3 years before I installed. I cleaned out the fuel rail, nasty looking gas, I did nothing with the injectors. The motor fired right up but runs rough at idle and hesitates on accl.It aslo back fired only sometimes. The new add-ons I installed are headers w/o2, EGR delete. I changed the plugs and wires, 1 plug had a lot of carbon., no change to performance. I have a new in-line fuel pump and filter, summit fuel cell, and summit MAS. What can I check before tearing into the optispark. I think it may be running lean.
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Old Oct 23, 2011 | 09:08 PM
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do you have FSM also check the MAF Distributor may be full of water
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Old Oct 24, 2011 | 09:50 AM
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do you have FSM also check the MAF Distributor may be full of water
sorry, but what is a FSM
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Old Oct 24, 2011 | 09:57 AM
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Factory Service Manual. Some believe if you don't have one you can't work on these cars.
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Old Oct 25, 2011 | 05:26 PM
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check for FSM on e-bay
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