Sometimes bad things happen to bad people. I don't count myself as a good guy, lord knows... Well anyway going over some logs we (
@Jon-MooredPerformanceLLC and I) were noticing that my passenger side bank would go extremely lean during a pass. Went to today's test-n-tune and made a pass with fresh data. Jon is a life saver, told me to log all the pulse widths... we noticed some really bad things happening:
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Injector in cylinder 8 was taking a vacation early. To rewind a bit when driving to the track I popped a p2096 (DOWNSTREAM FUEL TRIM SYSTEM 1 LEAN). After making this pass p0300. These two codes are intimately related. So to see when as far back in the logs this may have been happening (when I wasn't logging each pulsewidth), I took a trip in the time travel machine.
On 3/29 the problem is present, please look at the WB chart (this is when Jon told me to start logging them all):
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On 2/26 the issue is present:
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This is only during run 1, in the rest of the logs it seems fine (2-4). Log 2 from the same day:
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I switched to
Theory of a few competing hypothesis:
- Injector 8 is not able to pulse after a certain time and dies, we can check this with an ohm meter and a few cycles on my testing machine.
- To remedy this I will be swapping injectors 6 and 8 after fully cleaning both. If the injector 6 pulse width then stops then we know that the issue has been localized and the FIC injector will be overnighted to be replaced.
- If not and cylinder 8 injector stops pulsing that means potentially the injector driver in the PCM is bad. I have two spare PCMs to test with.
- I will be testing the injector harness for continuity. I will find the corresponding pin on the harness and check. If there is no continuity then I know there is a break somewhere in the harness, this is a can of worms but it is what it is if this happens.
- If there is no break in the harness then I will then reach out to my friend who is a SRT/Hellcat tech and ask what the ohms should be and test for that
I'm really hoping for just the injector to be unhappy, I really don't have my new motor yet and I might as well do plugs while I'm in there to see how hot things really got. Already running out of steam for this season and I haven't even gotten to one MSHS event this year.