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Running lean need some help/ported and polished the head 200 1988

My 88 wagon is running lean and I mean lean as can be.I removed the head on the car to do a valve job and went ahead and did a port and polish. I took my time by that I spent two weeks on the job.All the gaskets were matched up with the intake and the exhuast.The car is a LH2.2 system and nothing has been done to the fuel system.All of the vacumn has been checked compression has been checked and is within 5 LBS of one another.I did a post in the Turbo Bricks but got no response.I maybe wrong but I think that I need to change to a larger injector and add the turbo computer.I have the res.pack to add to the wiring harness. But I was wondering if anybody has had this problem.The computer thinks that it is just as before all this work was done.I added a B cam to the engine.I put in a new ECT switch and have chenged out the AMM but that has no effect on the way it is running.The car is so lean that it has a slight skip to it at idle.All of the system has been check out over and over. Thanks to all of you that respond to this post and maybe I will get this fixed.
Thanks
Rodney








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    Running lean need some help/ported and polished the head 200 1988

    Kinda late on this one, but....
    Did you polish the intake ports? Intake ports shouldn't be polished, (that's what they say nowadays) the injected fuel will, in many cases, "wet out": liquid gasoline doesn't burn. At higher rpm's, it's not such a problem, there's enough airflow to rip apart drops of gasoline, but at lower rpm's a matte or slightly rough finish to the ports will give liquid gasoline enough traction to be picked apart by the lower airspeeds. It may cost a whole horsepower or so in an allout tuning effort, but it's becoming common practice simply due to the driveability concerns. But that's just a possibility! Check the easy stuff first, vacuum leaks and so forth.








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    Running lean need some help/ported and polished the head 200 1988

    Porting the head didn't change the fuel air ratio. Neither did the cam. The mass meter meters the air and adds the fuel that it needs. The O2 sensor checks all that. Something got misassembled or damaged. You don't need bigger injectors. The ones you have will flow for quite a bit more power, and changing them would need a computer change anyways.








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    Running lean need some help/ported and polished the head 200 1988

    Have you checked the vacuum with a vacuum gauge, do you know what the vacuum was befor the work you did. With the higher lift cam and smoothing out of the intake passages you may have caused a higher flow of air to enter the system. I'm not sure the injectors from a turbo would help as much as an ecu from one.
    The 02 sensor might be the culprit as listed in the last post and indeed would be a good starting point, also check the vacuum going to the fuel pressure regulator, if your not getting vacuum there it may cause a lean condition as well.
    Th 02 sensor should react to a lean condition and give the info to the ecu to give more fuel , how long since it was changed last.
    Hope that helps
    Poolman








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    Running lean need some help/ported and polished the head 200 1988

    Faulty oxygen sensor? Or the connection on it is bad/dirty? The ECU uses the sensor to keep the car in tune.








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      Running lean need some help/ported and polished the head 200 1988

      The O/2 has been changed three times in the last two weeks.The same is for the AMM.I opened the combustion chamber up all so this is where the problem has come in Instead of the standard head having the opening of 53cc they now have 58cc which with everything is going to allow more air in than fuel.The standard comprter is not giong to be able to do but so much as the ECT has control of the amount also.I have a turbo computer and the wiring harness for the green top injectors.The AMM is the same and so is the O/2.The FPR will have to change also to the 3.0 bar.The turbo fuel pump is already on the car so the rest is straight forward.I will post another message on this problem in the future.I have the compression equal on all cylinders.I'm just trying to kick my son's butt for out running me and I will get it done.
      Thanks
      Rodney







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