Epic Failure: Honda Edition?
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My car has a lean conditon.
The spark plugs that were in it were non OEM plugs at nearly double what they should be gapped at.
I wasted all this effort and time to find out that the sparkplugs that are in my current motor are wrong, and gapped wrong after I spent money on all my other toys
I already have them, I bought all the stuff and am installing it right now kinda getting it ready for next weekend.
I'll post up how it runs after its all said and done.
Previous owner was a girl who was in college.
Car got 'wrecked' and sold at auction, I bought the motor from the dealer that bought the car ($250, just over 100K on the clock IIRC)
I assume she brought the car to a shop and asked them to do a tuneup kinda crap, or someone did, but AC Delcos???
Still leans out up top, so I guess I'm like 99% sure the fuel pump is also on its last leg since the FPR, plugs, wires, have all been replaced.
Unless the injectors are plugged or something I can't think of whatelse it may be?
I could see that gap causing your lean condition.Nice to see you got it fixed.
Surprisingly the plugs didn't cause all of the lean condition, I changed them out and drove on the new NGK's before replacing the fuel pump and it still leaned out. (albeit only to 15.4-16.0 on the gauge opposed to 16.8)
fucking plugs wouldn't cause a lean condition genius...
A wide gap would cause the misfires, but plugs have nothing to do with how rich or lean the thing is.
And I'm also interested why the make of the plug matters? If the heat range is right, who the fuck cares if it's Delco, NGK, Champion, Autolite, etc...
I could see that gap causing your lean condition.
False.
Plugs could cause a rich condition, but never a lean condition.
You can't burn too much fuel to make it turn into O2, and having an excessively gapped plug only makes it more difficult to get a good spark to burn anything in the first place.
I'm glad your fuel pump fixed the problem, though.
*edit*
after furrrrther reading I see my information was already posted. But, I'm leaving that up to emphasize the point
False.
Plugs could cause a rich condition, but never a lean condition.
You can't burn too much fuel to make it turn into O2, and having an excessively gapped plug only makes it more difficult to get a good spark to burn anything in the first place.
I'm glad your fuel pump fixed the problem, though.
*edit*
after furrrrther reading I see my information was already posted. But, I'm leaving that up to emphasize the point
I actually mentioned the plugs causing a lean condition. I only said that cause I noticed my O2s go up when I changed mine.Granted, it was narrowband.
Not saying you're wrong. Just my experience.
O2's returning to stoic and O2's going lean are two different things. Of course you'll be running rich if you have fouled plugs and of course when you replace them your O2's should return to normal. The only way to encounter a lean condition, however, is by not delivering enough fuel which has nothing to do with spark plugs.
fucking plugs wouldn't cause a lean condition genius...
A wide gap would cause the misfires, but plugs have nothing to do with how rich or lean the thing is.
And I'm also interested why the make of the plug matters? If the heat range is right, who the fuck cares if it's Delco, NGK, Champion, Autolite, etc...
I had no idea if the gap would effect A/F ratio or not, thats why I brought it up, but I replaced them anyways because I figured it wasn't a good thing, no need to be an ass about it.
Plugs weren't the issue, Fuel pump was.
after spending so much money motor swap I was Broke-Ass, and didn't bother doing the tune-up stuff on it because it ran like a top.
I can't afford to pour all my money into my car like some people can, I have bills to pay. (and don't give me "Oh, but they are only $10-20 bucks" crap, After spending nearly a grand to get my swap 100% I didn't wanna let myself fall behind on bills so I was counting my pennies for a few weeks after that, and by then I forgot about it since it was running fine anyways.
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