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<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype" color=#000080 size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype" color=#000080 size=4><EM>YOU</EM> blowing an
ECM is understandable... women-drivers and all....</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype" color=#000080 size=4>(I never forget an
<EM>old</EM> feud!)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype" color=#000080 size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype" color=#000080 size=4>But seriously, folks,
</FONT><FONT face="Palatino Linotype" color=#000080 size=4>I think "we" may be
<STRONG><FONT size=6>back down to 3</FONT></STRONG> based on the horrific
results of...</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype" color=#000080 size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV align=center><FONT face="Palatino Linotype" color=#000080
size=7><STRONG>Road-Test #3 last night!</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype" color=#000080 size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype" color=#000080 size=4>With a <EM>fresh</EM>
ECM/MEMCAL (working perfectly in the Typhoon last year and being electrically
isolated all that time) and air-temp around 40°, I took off on my "night
runs" and damn near had the WORST NIGHT ON THE ROAD--<EM>EVER!!</EM> This
trip basically picked up where the horror-ride of last Sunday evening left
off!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype" color=#000080 size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype" color=#000080 size=4>Start-up was the usual
hunting/starving/pumping-to-stay-alive crap I always have, but part-throttle
take-off was a li'l better. However, the 6-minute DIE-OFF was back like
clockwork and I had to pump and pump and PUMP to get onto the access road and
then the expressway... not quite as bad as the very worst-- just worse than any
time in November! But, instead of smooth sailing as soon as I began
cruising at 65mph, I get <STRONG>REPEATED AND UNPRECEDENTED STARVE-OUTS</STRONG>
(SES-light comes on after chugging begins) all the way to and from my
destination 9.5 miles away!!! This was unquestionably the <EM>very WORST
highway performance</EM> ever logged in that vehicle!!!! The fix consisted
of 3 or 4 quick pumps on the gas-pedal and I was good for another minute or
so... then the same HOR$E$H1T all over again till I got off the
expressway. Then everything was "FINE"... darting around on deserted
streets under 50mph, except for a couple of starve-outs under sustained
cruise-load.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype" color=#000080 size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype" color=#000080 size=4>Folks, <FONT
color=#ff0000 size=5><STRONG>this is a batch-fired FUELING
problem</STRONG></FONT>-- not spark- or advance-related-- yet its also not a
problem with the gas pressure or supply. Today, I'll be hooking up my
analog meter to <EM>prove</EM> that point... for myself and all the skeptics out
there in SyTy-ville (and besides if the brand-spanking-new
super-Walbro fuel pump were <EM>truly</EM> having intermittent fits, I
could not fix the problem with 3 hits on the pedal... there wouldn't be enough
pressurized gas in the line to smooth things out as I lengthen those
FI-pulses!) Either this <FONT color=#ff0000>NEVER WAS an ECM
problem</FONT>, <STRONG>or else</STRONG>, by hooking into the existing Syclone
harness, <STRONG>the "new" perfectly working Typhoon-ECM got dragged-down and
destroyed as well</STRONG>-- which still makes "ECM failure" (if any) just
ANOTHER <EM>SYMPTOM</EM> of <STRONG><FONT color=#ff0000>a core-problem that lies
elsewhere!</FONT></STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype" color=#000080 size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype" color=#000080 size=4>Now, I'm not sure I
wanna send in the old ECM for rebuild... they'll probably just check it out,
pronounce it FINE, and charge me $25, plus shipping both ways.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype" color=#000080 size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype" color=#000080 size=4><EM>But for</EM> the
cold-start-up difficulties and lack of "choke function" (fuel-pulse enrichment +
fast-idle) and starve-hunt-pump-rev sequences for 30 secs until the tach takes
off on a 2000 rpm increase (depending on where I'm holding the pedal), <FONT
color=#800000>THIS SYNDROME IS VERY MUCH LIKE THE TIME MY Turbo-TRANS AM HAD A
BUM-ALTERNATOR:</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype" color=#000080 size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype" color=#000080 size=4>Once upon a time... in
a Sodom-Gomorrah-like planet called Washington Metro, thankfully far, far
away now... there was this Jedi Warrior (guess who!) nicknamed "Batman" who used
to terrorize LS6 Chevelles, Corvettes, GNs, and turbo'd rice-burners on the
Baltimore-Washington Parkway (and "New York Ave. Dragway" between 3-4 am) who
was always suping-up his TTA/Millennium Falcon in his NASA-based Garage.
With a run-down battery and a too-late-diagnosed <EM>dead alternator</EM>, he
packed up his newly arrived 140A alternator, got a jump-start, and headed off to
his Batcave in Greenbelt, Md. before the real rush-hour gridlock
solidified.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype" color=#000080 size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype" color=#000080 size=4>He got out of Va. and
through DC without incident and things were cruising fine on the Parkway until
he was just a few miles away from his destination. At that point, the
depleting Optima battery began to poop-out and the <STRONG>car began to struggle
and starve and lose speed</STRONG>. But a few pumps on the pedal were
sufficient to restore cruise for a few seconds... first 30... then 25... then 20
and so on. The low-batt condition was shortening the FI-pulses and thus
<EM>starving</EM> the motor for fuel. <STRONG>Whacking the pedal would
widen these pulses slightly</STRONG>-- similar to the action of an accelerator
pump on a carburetor-- and thus keep the A/F mixture in a proper running range
for a few cycles. However, as the battery dragged-down lower and lower,
the engine eventually just DIED for lack of fuel; no manner of pumping the pedal
would stretch those injector-pulses into delivering an adequate spray of
gasoline to enough cylinders.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype" color=#000080 size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype" color=#000080 size=4>So, Batman had to
dead-cruise to an island on an on-ramp, dodge streams of traffic, hike over
to El Torrito's (before the days of widespread cell-phonery) where he got Robin
to come rescue him and get the TTA-mobile towed to the Batcave... where the new
alternator went in, Optima got charged, and they all lived happily ever
after.... I think they all went back to El Torrito for a victory dinner
afterwards, but details are sketchy.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype" color=#000080 size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype" color=#000080 size=4>The moral of that story
is <FONT color=#800000>THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I'M GOING THROUGH NOW</FONT>, except
my 'Clone's electrical system is in tip-top shape!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype" color=#000080 size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype" color=#000080 size=4><STRONG><FONT
size=5>Does THIS give any among you a clue?</FONT></STRONG> I'm more
STUMPED than ever now.... Who knows a good EXORCIST??</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype" color=#000080 size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype" color=#000080 size=4>Dennis O.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=L1D2B@aol.com href="mailto:L1D2B@aol.com">L1D2B@aol.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=seravilo@netzero.net
href="mailto:seravilo@netzero.net">seravilo@netzero.net</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Friday, February 03, 2006 11:43 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: STILL [Syty] Broke & Stumped!</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>Make it 4 - I blew at least one.</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>