POP when turning ignition on (not cranking) and burned fuel smell
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Flood clear mode this can be set in "More Cranking Stuff" Sometimes you might want to temporarily stop the injectors from injecting fuel during cranking to clear a flooded engine. This is achieved by holding down the gas pedal during cranking. The MegaSquirt needs to know at what point of gas pedal deflection it should turn off the injectors and a good starting point would be just before floored.
To get this value, go to Tools, Calibrate TPS, and push the gas pedal almost all the way to the floor - about where you think the fuel should be cut off and hit Get Current. Remember this value and hit CANCEL on the Calibrate TPS dialog. Insert this value for the TPS Flood Clear. If this value is set too low then you will not get any fuel during cranking. If you set this value too high, then you won't be able to press the pedal enough to trigger the Flood Clear.
To get this value, go to Tools, Calibrate TPS, and push the gas pedal almost all the way to the floor - about where you think the fuel should be cut off and hit Get Current. Remember this value and hit CANCEL on the Calibrate TPS dialog. Insert this value for the TPS Flood Clear. If this value is set too low then you will not get any fuel during cranking. If you set this value too high, then you won't be able to press the pedal enough to trigger the Flood Clear.
#82
I’m not trying to stop the injectors from injecting fuel during cranking. I’m trying to stop the single spark event at power-up. If that single bastard spark is eliminated, so would be the cold-start pop. Momentary spark interrupt could solve this, yes?
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After reading through this thread, it doesn't appear that anyone figured this out.
So this just started happening to me. Started happening after I went turbo. I installed my 550s and ran them for a couple of weeks without this happening. Not sure if they're related. There is seemingly no ryme or reason to the pops except that it doesn't happen if I rev the engine and kill it at like 3k.
Also along with this, sometimes my car does not crank on the first try. It does like half a crank and stops as if something is in the way. Injectors are 550s cleaned and flow tested by injector rehab.
I am running fairly rich right now...perhaps way too rich? At about 13:1 afr at idle.
So this just started happening to me. Started happening after I went turbo. I installed my 550s and ran them for a couple of weeks without this happening. Not sure if they're related. There is seemingly no ryme or reason to the pops except that it doesn't happen if I rev the engine and kill it at like 3k.
Also along with this, sometimes my car does not crank on the first try. It does like half a crank and stops as if something is in the way. Injectors are 550s cleaned and flow tested by injector rehab.
I am running fairly rich right now...perhaps way too rich? At about 13:1 afr at idle.
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I had this happen while I was calibrating an o2 sensor and gauge. I had to power up the LC-1 and XD16 a couple of times and when it popped the engine didn't rotate. I assumed it was fuel vapor leaking into the exhaust from an open valve and being ignited in the pipe by the hot o2 sensor.
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Which suggests that in your case it is due to the engine not rotating through a full cycle after you shut it off, thus leaving some fuel in one or more of the chambers (said fuel having been injected on the last squirt prior to shutdown) which subsequently ignites.
Cranking fuel has nothing to do with this. The pop in question occurs before cranking begins.
I don't see why this is such a mystery. If you want to make it stop, either make sure that the engine turns a full cycle (two rotations) at shutdown (add rotating mass, or blip the throttle before you turn the key), or wire your spark outputs to be inverted so there's no spark at powerup.
Last edited by Joe Perez; 04-10-2009 at 09:16 AM. Reason: fixed quote tag
#98
Ok, it still does it even if I rev the engine a bit before shutdown. I must be dealing with leaky injector(s) issue(s). I dont have a light flywheel or anything and my idle is high to begin with so i'm pretty sure its getting 2 revolutions before shut down even if I dont blip the throttle before killing it.
As long as the pop isn't damaging anything, i'm fine with it. The only adverse effect I seem to be dealing with are fouled plugs making the car a bitch to start sometimes (runs on 3 cyls til the plug comes back to life).
Just swapped out the plugs with some bkr7e's and gapped them to .025. We'll see what happens I suppose.
Quick question: Are leaky injectors due to the injectors themselves being rebuilt improperly, or due to a poor installation by myself? Or are RX7 550s just kinda leaky and shitty to begin with?
As long as the pop isn't damaging anything, i'm fine with it. The only adverse effect I seem to be dealing with are fouled plugs making the car a bitch to start sometimes (runs on 3 cyls til the plug comes back to life).
Just swapped out the plugs with some bkr7e's and gapped them to .025. We'll see what happens I suppose.
Quick question: Are leaky injectors due to the injectors themselves being rebuilt improperly, or due to a poor installation by myself? Or are RX7 550s just kinda leaky and shitty to begin with?