well damn it.. i was looking forward to possibly putting a 383 into my fc but i will look tomorrow. to make sure.

 

lol


I'll take whatever compliments I can get...

 

ive been trying to start it for a week..i had no problem when i first installed it. ran fine..only thing i can think of is that the safc was running lean or something like that..

 

i actually meant the you're in that one to be me.... but if you need reassurance too

Razorback.. i'd seriously try the pull starting thing, it seems to work for a lot of us, where other unflooding falls short..

 

Have you considered just uninstalling the SAFC2 and then seeing if she'll start?

 

i have a half bridge. not sure if pulling the safc is a good idea.

 

I have no experience with dealing with porting. You need somebody else to answer that.

 

Sorry to here it's not going so well but two things come to mind . It did run fine with the afr on your half bridge right. And it did run fine after you installed the safc right. It just hasnt ran well since it has bein sitting. so what about the old carbon lock theary here. It sits and carbon gets loose and sticks your seals so that you have poor compression. Or when you did you test did you remove the check ball on the tester? If it is carbon lock it is fix able ,not a big chore. I hope it was just the check ball in the tester.lol But really this is no resone get give up on your ride , and if you were having some hesitation before mabey you've got some grounding problems . Did you want the AFR back yet lol Corbit

 

id consider carbon lock but it has less than 5k miles on it. and nah i dont need ths safr back. its yours now. enjoy it.

 

Check error codes - I think the AFM is still disconnected from faulty wiring.

If it's the wiring you've fucked with that screwed up the car, 99.44% it's the wiring that's screwed.

If you want to go V8 swap that badly, I dunno why you're wasting your time with the car in the first place.


-Ted

 

ok..i may just get a jspec s4 motor from fc3s.org what should i keep from my current s5 jspec to put on the s4?

 

dude my car did this same ****. i installed my SAFC and had the AFM wires hooked up wrong (output switched with the input) and so my ECU didnt see a AFM signal... bad times.. check the damn wiring!

also, i think problem #1 is you're trying to run a half-bridgeported motor on a stock ECU and piggybacks... i'd sell all that **** and get a haltech or microtech if you plan on making any big power, but thats just my two cents.

 

i know my motor is gone so i pulled it today. im gonna buy a jspec from somewhere so i will probably have some internals for sale in the near future. and i have a safc2 for sale as well. that and i had very shitty compression.

 

Repeat

 

last time I checked the motor had to be warm and the battery full for a compression check...I once got a 87TII(my first turbo) because a car shop did a compression test and told the poor guy the car was DEAD...the ****** would not start...we towed it home and just for the hell of it, I popped it in 3rd and left it there for about 3 miles and BAM, she started right up...compression was just fine when I tested it when it was warmed up

 

"last time I checked the motor had to be warm and the battery full for a compression check" At least thats what it says in the manual i believe. I read somewhere that the numbers you get from a piston compression tester are not accurate. Someone said not to look at the numbers, instead, look to see if the numbers from the front and back are close together. I do not know if this is correct or not..but i really do believe it was your AFM. However, it does sound like you really wanted to swap the motor for some reason. I do not know if you checked and double checked the AFM, like Reted adviced, but i would have done that prior to pulling the motor out.

 

holly hell batman! i just realized that someone (travelintrevor) brought this back from the grave. =(

 

wtf? Replace what stand alone? what do you mean replace the stand alone with an safc?

 

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Originally posted by razorback
ok i have an 87 t2 with an 89 jspec half bridge motor. (around 5k miles on it) it ran fine then like a dumbass i decided the safr i had was not good enough and tried to replace the standalone cheaply..
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"wtf? Replace what stand alone? what do you mean replace the stand alone with an safc?"

i think that he means that he wanted to replace the current piggy back system for another while trying to still meet his budget.