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Odd bank lean spikes at idle, surge under throttle.
10.3:1 6.0, 225 PRC heads, cam .695/.613 - 231/243, twin BW S366, VSRacing gen 3 44 mm wastegates & 50mm BOV, Bosch 210’s, TBSS intake, Holley smart coils, Holley Dominator, O2’s 18-22” after turbos, 3.5” dual exhaust stops about 2’ before rear differential, will be flex fuel but for initial start/tune is on ethanol free 91, BR7EF plugs, Firecore wires, Motion 92mm TB, fuel pressure at 55 psi, 10 an splits to 8an to feed each rail then out each rail into the reg & return is 6an, vacuum ran from intake to dist block feeding map & BOV, fpr has own vac line from intake, vac from cold pipe to wastegates, 2 in 1 out treadstone innercooler, on board air to wastegates, Holley dual boost controllers. I can find zero vacuum leaks, fuel leaks, injectors were brand new and have been tested twice, played musical coils with 4 spare smart coils, compression check was 200 psi - 208 psi & leak down was 4-5% with 1 cylinder just under 7%. First start both banks are fairly even & slightly rich then it settles for a few seconds and it’s all stoich, then the odd bank starts to have lean spikes, going from stoich & briefly flashing 15:1-16:1 to stoich & stays like that, under 0-9% throttle it doesn’t respond much & even stumbles a bit, at 10-11ish% throttle it’ll run somewhat smooth & rev but still has the mild lean spikes, above that it surges and goes 19-11 lean-rich on the odd bank, and much smaller movement from the even bank. Closed and open loop. I do have a remote tuner helping out when he’s available & hopefully will be remoting in this week after a month of me tending to other issues. I have baptized this engine bay in brake clean looking for a leak & nothing, no exhaust leaks to be found. I have a smoke machine being delivered this week. I’m on my 3rd set of plugs, not that the other 2 sets are junk, just running out of ideas. All plugs show combustion is happening, nothing looks scary although mostly idle time doesn’t help read a plug. I had zero luck finding a way to plug the TBSS map port so it’s threaded with a bolt and oring screwed in.
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@Tj Johnson I’m a few miles west of Winfield Lake or 45ish minutes SE of Wichita. So I did take the O2 harness from the Even bank and put it on the odd bank & visa versa. While I was certain I had already done that perhaps I did not. It does appear to be the harness or pin related. With the tuner remoted in & only using the “left” O2 readings (now the odd bank) it’s much happier all around, so perhaps the add on harness has an issue I need to track down, while it’s not all shielded as it comes from Holley, I will tear it all out and wrap it to see if it fixes the issue. The car is much happier now, now I just have to drive it 😅. This iteration of the car is by far the longest start-stop project of my life, almost everything has been replaced at least once before even put into use. 🫠. So once again I’ll be taking out a car with all new brakes & lines, entire drivetrain, electronics, fuel system, suspension, steering, electronics, everything new and for a new purpose, can confirm anxiety gets worse with age 😅🤣🤘🏼. While I have been involved building turbo LS setups, this is my first personal turbo LS build & first anything making well over 600ish HP, let alone fuel injection, 2 tons of wiring/sensors & computers. Everything in & on the car now is ready for 8.50’s except the short block & cage, figured a cheap guinea pig was the way to go. I have an LSNext block waiting to be put together after this trial. Lots of nerves this go round! Hope to hit asphalt with it tomorrow if the weather cooperates & I get outta work in time to beat the sunset.
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@Tj Johnson this is after swapping harnesses bank to bank and some tuning. It was MUCH worse. Engine sounds much cleaner now & runs much smoother, just gotta put it through the paces now.
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@Gary Benoit when & where is this?
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66 Chevelle, FTI TH400, Trick Chassis 9”, 6.0 LS PRC 225 heads, LJMS spec cam .605/.613 &. 231/246@.050, twin BW S366’s. Bosch 210’s. Working on tune, & having issues with lean spikes at idle.
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🤘🏼66 Chevelle. 6.0 LS, PRC 225 heads, LJMS specd cam, BW S366’s, FTI TH400 level 4, Trick Chassis 9”, Holley Dominator ECU

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