help needed 140 miles per tank

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finger
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help needed 140 miles per tank

Post by finger »

i have rev 3 tubby after market air filter down pipe departure exhaust charge cooler profec b boost controler with power fc just mapped by ryan low boost 1.1 bar high 1.2 but it does over boost to 1.3 made 290 at the wheels 334 fly any help aprecated i cant smell any fuel leaking injecftorsseem fine but my daughter did say she thought she smelled fuel
but mecanics could not i put the old ecu back in to check for error codes but found nothing
mikey2
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Re: help needed 140 miles per tank

Post by mikey2 »

start with the Lambda sensor, i take it you have a different ecu in there normally?? changing the ecus wont give you the error codes as they wont have been stored in the original one. It might be down to the map on the aftermarket ecu. what other mods do you have?? bigger injectors?
how do you drive it? if you drive it like you stole it then its gonna eat fuel like its going out of fashion, even a 10 minute blat can chew some fuel.
for example, my old rx7, not the best on fuel, even when driven sedately, usually i got about 180 miles to a tank, a 70 quid tank. One night, i drove it like i stole it, only for 15 miles, but i used half a tank of fuel!!!!
my MR2, on low boost, on a run to london and back, i was getting near on 250 miles, that was on spring pressure, on stock ecu, driving at the speed limit obviously :roll: .
if i accelerated hard, i can knock 20 miles off that total, even when the rest of the journey is cruising.
maybe change your lambda, see how that goes.
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