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Sorry to get all British but I'm really REALLy frustrated right now. For the 2nd time this week my car is somewhere I'm not.
Here's a brief history:
OCT 2008 - I install a Vortech supercharger and tune. Everything works just fine until...
Sunday Morning - I've just installed a new VMP tune and temporarily wired up an external IAT sensor for it. Works fine for a short run to the mall and Partsource. I get home, I put some heatshrinkable butt connectors on the wires to finalize it and take the car out for a more extensive run. The car immediately idles like crap and dies less than a block from the house. Could not get it started again that day.
Monday Evening - Having decided I must have screwed up the MAF connector I brought a new one to the car and twisted the wires together by hand and sealed them with electrical tape. (I'd already reloaded the Vortech tune) So the car fires right up and runs like a top.
Wednesday Night - Having run the car since Monday but feeling weary I put butt connectors on 2 of the 6 wires and test the car. It runs. Good.
Thursday Lunch (today) - Having made the run to work without problems I put butt connectors on 2 more of the wires. Fired it up just fine, ran it for a minute or 2 and shut it off.
Thursday Evening - Leaving work, I go out to the car which has sat in the parking lot all day, turn the key and it fires up. For about 5 seconds. Then it DIES :frustrated:Can not get it started. Frustrated I rip out the damm butt connectors again and twist everything together by hand again. Still won't start. So I catch the BUS home wearing a leather jacket when it's 22 degrees Celsius out, now hear I sit sweaty and disgruntled wondering what the hell I'm gonna do next.
In typically ambiguous fashion there's enough evidence to support 2 different possibilities.
1. This week is the first time the car has been exposed to summer-like heat since the supercharger went on. Maybe the dunderheads at Vortech never put any thought into this tune they supplied and now it's a tad too rich. Both times this has happened it's been pretty warm outside.
2. Both times this has happened it's right after I've screwed around putting butt connectors on the MAF wires. It's a coincidence that's hard to ignore.
Tomorrow I drive the truck to work (the 31 year old truck that somehow is my most reliable vehicle right now :headscratch
If the car starts and seems like it won't die I'll drive it home and scratch my head about the whole thing some more.
Any ideas? I need some insight here.
Here's a brief history:
OCT 2008 - I install a Vortech supercharger and tune. Everything works just fine until...
Sunday Morning - I've just installed a new VMP tune and temporarily wired up an external IAT sensor for it. Works fine for a short run to the mall and Partsource. I get home, I put some heatshrinkable butt connectors on the wires to finalize it and take the car out for a more extensive run. The car immediately idles like crap and dies less than a block from the house. Could not get it started again that day.
Monday Evening - Having decided I must have screwed up the MAF connector I brought a new one to the car and twisted the wires together by hand and sealed them with electrical tape. (I'd already reloaded the Vortech tune) So the car fires right up and runs like a top.
Wednesday Night - Having run the car since Monday but feeling weary I put butt connectors on 2 of the 6 wires and test the car. It runs. Good.
Thursday Lunch (today) - Having made the run to work without problems I put butt connectors on 2 more of the wires. Fired it up just fine, ran it for a minute or 2 and shut it off.
Thursday Evening - Leaving work, I go out to the car which has sat in the parking lot all day, turn the key and it fires up. For about 5 seconds. Then it DIES :frustrated:Can not get it started. Frustrated I rip out the damm butt connectors again and twist everything together by hand again. Still won't start. So I catch the BUS home wearing a leather jacket when it's 22 degrees Celsius out, now hear I sit sweaty and disgruntled wondering what the hell I'm gonna do next.
In typically ambiguous fashion there's enough evidence to support 2 different possibilities.
1. This week is the first time the car has been exposed to summer-like heat since the supercharger went on. Maybe the dunderheads at Vortech never put any thought into this tune they supplied and now it's a tad too rich. Both times this has happened it's been pretty warm outside.
2. Both times this has happened it's right after I've screwed around putting butt connectors on the MAF wires. It's a coincidence that's hard to ignore.
Tomorrow I drive the truck to work (the 31 year old truck that somehow is my most reliable vehicle right now :headscratch
Any ideas? I need some insight here.