help need finishing my TPI swap
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From: Cartersville, GA
Engine: 305 TPI
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help need finishing my TPI swap
I got a 92 camaro rs which came with a TBI, I have fully swaped it to TPI.
I can start my car at this moment, but my alternator and my brakes dont work. brakes worked fine before I started, but now its like the car is not on, really hard to press.
also I got a single fan, which is not turning when the motor gets hot.
Idk y, but all of my gauges are not working except the bettery voltage one.
and finnally, I have so many vacume leakes. on my manafold, there is so many little holes where hoes seposed to go on, they all open, and idk what they are there for.
my car is idelling rough too.
I can start my car at this moment, but my alternator and my brakes dont work. brakes worked fine before I started, but now its like the car is not on, really hard to press.
also I got a single fan, which is not turning when the motor gets hot.
Idk y, but all of my gauges are not working except the bettery voltage one.
and finnally, I have so many vacume leakes. on my manafold, there is so many little holes where hoes seposed to go on, they all open, and idk what they are there for.
my car is idelling rough too.
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Car: 1987 Iroc-z Convertible
Re: help need finishing my TPI swap
the idling rough and brake issue is more than likely from "I have so many vacume leakes. on my manafold" unless you swap to hydro-electric brakes or hydroboost then your brakes run off of vacuum to function properly. If there isn't enough available vacuum then it is pretty much like having manual brakes (well actually non assist brakes, kind of the same but not entirely) not fun when you need to stop fast.
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Engine: 305 TPI
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Re: help need finishing my TPI swap
well my brakes I found the problem, the brake boost vacume was conected, but there is another plug in that I cant fined on wiring harnes.
and idelling is because I got too many vacume leakes, but I have so many free holes left thats not connected to anything..... Also I got 2 tempereture sensers, but my wiring harnes off another car came with one, would that be a problem?
and idelling is because I got too many vacume leakes, but I have so many free holes left thats not connected to anything..... Also I got 2 tempereture sensers, but my wiring harnes off another car came with one, would that be a problem?
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From: Cartersville, GA
Engine: 305 TPI
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Re: help need finishing my TPI swap
well I fixed all my problems but it still idles really rought. like it still raves up with out me pressing much gass, if i let the throtel down it dies, but if it still idelling then my rpms are not steady. does it matter how I will hook my injecters up?
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Re: help need finishing my TPI swap
"Of course. You have to connect all of your injectors to the proper socket, otherwise the fuel will be injected into a wrong cylinder."
couldn't have said it better myself
couldn't have said it better myself
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Re: help need finishing my TPI swap
Wrong. TPI is a batch fire system. As long as the injector wires are on the correct SIDE of the engine it will run fine. As the engine runs the left bank of injectors fire then the right. In others words all four injectors on one side of the engine fire at once.
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Re: help need finishing my TPI swap
yeah but if they aren't then it is flooding cylinders causing an erratic idle. At least that is how I always took it but I didn't design it so maybe it doesn't matter.
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Engine: 305 TPI
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Re: help need finishing my TPI swap
thats what I thought it was from looking at a wiring diagrams, thanks.
so now I need to fined me a timeing light and try to get it timed right.
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