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Old Oct 22, 2006 | 11:36 PM
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quesiton tho after i installed my kit, my kit was running rich, does anyone know y that might be, 4th gear the kit is running extremely rich any ideas y?
Old Oct 22, 2006 | 11:38 PM
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Better to run rich then lean and blow your $hit up... What AFR's are you hitting at WOT.. You have a greddy kit with emanage correct?
Old Oct 22, 2006 | 11:52 PM
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its called custom tune
Old Oct 22, 2006 | 11:53 PM
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yea i have the greddy kit, yea im going to get a custom tune, but its ok to run rich?
Old Oct 22, 2006 | 11:55 PM
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yea i have the greddy kit, yea im going to get a custom tune, but its ok to run rich?
Yes... You will lose some whp... But as I stated above its better to have a safe rich tune, then to have it running lean and your motor detonate ( kablammmm)..
Old Oct 23, 2006 | 12:07 AM
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What is extremely rich? What AFR's you running on your wideband?
Old Oct 23, 2006 | 12:19 AM
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Old Oct 23, 2006 | 12:43 AM
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Greddy Blue or Ultimate, the Greddy Blue base map is horribly rich. The ultimate map is considerably better.
Old Oct 23, 2006 | 04:18 AM
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AFR's?
Old Oct 23, 2006 | 04:47 AM
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mine was runnig one night at WOT 11.1 then tonight it was running 10.0 can somone tell me y ? my car is tuned from ripp. it seems like im getting poor gas mileage but that might be because im always in boost haha
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i have the Ulimate greddy emange
Old Oct 23, 2006 | 02:13 PM
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Running rich just means you aint getting all the power you can, I run all day with a AFR of 10.0
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