Only 1 bank of injectors firing
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Car: 1987 Z28 IROC
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Only 1 bank of injectors firing
I have a heavily modified 1991 350 TPI and it was running great on Saturday. Monday I popped the memcal out to adjust the startup enrichment and when I put it back in and started the car it ran and drove like crap. Barely started, had to keep on the gas.
What I thought was mechanical turned out to be none of the passenger side injectors firing. The car runs but very poorly. I ran it for 5 minutes and all 4 of the passenger side header tubes were cold. Driver side was hot.
I have re-wrote the PROM with known good working tunes onto 3 different chips with no change. I have swapped ECMs with no change.
I don't have a noid light but rigged a small bulb across the injector connector and when cranking and running the bulb doesn't light up.
Both injector 10amp fuses are good. Power to the pink/black wire at the injector.
Is it the ECM or PROM that controls injector firing? I don't have a separate complete Memcal to try right now.
Any ideas??
What I thought was mechanical turned out to be none of the passenger side injectors firing. The car runs but very poorly. I ran it for 5 minutes and all 4 of the passenger side header tubes were cold. Driver side was hot.
I have re-wrote the PROM with known good working tunes onto 3 different chips with no change. I have swapped ECMs with no change.
I don't have a noid light but rigged a small bulb across the injector connector and when cranking and running the bulb doesn't light up.
Both injector 10amp fuses are good. Power to the pink/black wire at the injector.
Is it the ECM or PROM that controls injector firing? I don't have a separate complete Memcal to try right now.
Any ideas??
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Transmission: 700R4
Axle/Gears: 3.23
Re: Only 1 bank of injectors firing
Probing the injector wire right from the harness at the ECM shows no grounding signal when cranking or running. How can only 1 bank be not working?
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Re: Only 1 bank of injectors firing
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Re: Only 1 bank of injectors firing
Check the inj fuses.
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Transmission: 700R4
Axle/Gears: 3.23
Re: Only 1 bank of injectors firing
Found the problem. Taking the ECM out of the dash repeatadly to program the PROM caused the pink/blk injector wire to break inside the coating. Soldered it up and it works like new again.
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