Originally Posted by
scotrod
Hey everyone, I wanted to post here with a post-mortem of my build and how it ended.
After getting everything installed and trouble shooting idle and drivability problems it turns out my problem was a simple one... clogged cats... I had deleted my primary converters before installing the kit and left the rear ones intact (because i dont like the smell) and it turns out that while running the original jaguar injectors (460cc) and trying to pull fuel pressure to get a smooth idle, i must have put too many hours on the cats like this and they clogged the 18 year old original converters.
This really sucks because i feel like i was so close to getting it to run with those pink nissan sunny 1.6 (200cc) injectors. I only found out this was the cause after the drivability problems followed me when i went back to NA and i was going down the long diagnosis path which took upwards of 2 weeks after work to figure out my problem (i had already sold and shipped my kit to a new owner by this point)
I want to post this here because i really do think that this setup or one similar is needed as an alternative to $7,000Canadian vortech/dinan centrifugal kits that are impossible to find used.
I hope someday someone can lift up the mantle i was trying so hard to trouble shoot and get a finished product for the economical tuner like me.
My last post here painted a grim picture so i wanted to clear the air.
I had under $3000Canadian in this kit running for everything before i started chasing fuel injectors and different fuel setups and FMU's and fuel pressure regulators.
In the future I will probably come back to this setup and try to get it running with the pink nissan sunny injectors and an FMU