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proper tuning w/o cats?

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stangracer281

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So after replacing my stock h-pipe with an off road verson sans cats.....the car wont run right. The computer is defaulting to a full-rich fuel strategy, even with the stock oxygen sensors in place on the aftermarket pipe. Anyone know how lean out the fuel to get things running properly again?
 

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did you get mil eliminators?
 

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Are you sure you dont have a leak or something.
I couldnt imagine it running too rich just from that.
Whats makes you say its running rich anyway? Whats it doing?
 
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I havent tried the MIL elminators yet, ill have to give that a shot. Its pretty obvious that its running rich, you can smell it in the exhaust, the spark plugs tend to foul at idle and w/o cats, the sensors detect more free oxygen in the exhast and are tricked into thinkin the engine is running lean. I was also thinking of a custom tune chip, i dont know if that would completely fix the problem.
 

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you have to have the mil eliminators. GET THEM NOW!
 

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stangracer281 said:
I havent tried the MIL elminators yet, ill have to give that a shot. Its pretty obvious that its running rich, you can smell it in the exhaust, the spark plugs tend to foul at idle and w/o cats, the sensors detect more free oxygen in the exhast and are tricked into thinkin the engine is running lean. I was also thinking of a custom tune chip, i dont know if that would completely fix the problem.
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The smell is likely either the lack of cats or the OR pipe 'breaking in' by burning or baking the finish... New exhaust systems tend to smell a bit funny til broken in. But more likely, if you think you smell gas, it's just from the lack of cats.
 

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The only thing the mil elim do is prevent a code.
They do nothing for the performance. If you dont have cats your gonna smell carbon monoxide anyway. Thats why they are there.
 

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fyi, you can make your own MIL elims for under $10.
 

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03-s281 said:
The only thing the mil elim do is prevent a code.
They do nothing for the performance. If you dont have cats your gonna smell carbon monoxide anyway. Thats why they are there.
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Right...I've been running my car without MIL eliminators for about 6 months with no adverse perfomance effects.
 
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