Locko90 Member 32 Member For: 7y 5m 27d Posted 29/04/20 11:20 AM Posted 29/04/20 11:20 AM hey guys I done a mid muffler delete on my 03 xr6 turbo and ive found that its gradually become hard to cold start, is there anything I can do other then a tune to get it to start easily again?
k31th less WHY; more WOT Site Developer 30,115 Member For: 18y 5m 24d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 29/04/20 11:37 AM Posted 29/04/20 11:37 AM you can put a stock exhaust back on to see if that fixes the problem... or you can clean up the air intake etc to ensure it's getting correct airflow. or you can get a mechanic to check these things and work around it for you. or you can get a tuner to tune around it. my opinion: if you made a mechanical change and a mechanical issue resulted, there's no point paying for a tune to work around it.
arronm Dropping a turd Legacy Donating Member 9,520 Member For: 18y 11m 7d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 29/04/20 12:41 PM Posted 29/04/20 12:41 PM Probably the battery
Locko90 Member 32 Member For: 7y 5m 27d Posted 29/04/20 12:59 PM Author Posted 29/04/20 12:59 PM 1 hour ago, k31th said: you can put a stock exhaust back on to see if that fixes the problem... or you can clean up the air intake etc to ensure it's getting correct airflow. or you can get a mechanic to check these things and work around it for you. or you can get a tuner to tune around it. my opinion: if you made a mechanical change and a mechanical issue resulted, there's no point paying for a tune to work around it. the stock exhaust has had the mid muffler deleted, I just chopped it out and straight piped it. u can buy these pipes online, I thought id save some money and just do it myself. sounds allright, not great. could be louder seems like its running a lot richer (can smell the unburnt fuel), thinking it could use a tune anyway, but im wanting to get a new fuel pump, bigger injectors, bigger fmi, battery relocation, hot side intake, stiffer valve springs then get it tuned. also its possible its had a tune already as it hits 10 psi boost then hit ecu cut, was thinking previous owner has taken the good bits off it and put the stock stuff back on and left it with after market tune.
k31th less WHY; more WOT Site Developer 30,115 Member For: 18y 5m 24d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 29/04/20 01:02 PM Posted 29/04/20 01:02 PM if you're going to do the mods, then sure, go ahead and get those done and the tune... yes, if it's making over 6-7psi then it's probably got somethign either not correctly controlling the boost or it's been tuned in the past. 1
arronm Dropping a turd Legacy Donating Member 9,520 Member For: 18y 11m 7d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 29/04/20 03:42 PM Posted 29/04/20 03:42 PM It wont be the muffler delete causing the issue 1
bossmang FREAKY Legacy Donating Member 12,441 Member For: 16y 9m 8d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 01/05/20 10:59 AM Posted 01/05/20 10:59 AM with stupid ^^^ its not the exhaust just coincidence
Locko90 Member 32 Member For: 7y 5m 27d Posted 01/05/20 11:01 AM Author Posted 01/05/20 11:01 AM Cars been sold boys, someone eles problem now. Didn't want to sell her, had to, lost my licence. FML
k31th less WHY; more WOT Site Developer 30,115 Member For: 18y 5m 24d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 01/05/20 11:11 AM Posted 01/05/20 11:11 AM that's an interesting chain of events...
bossmang FREAKY Legacy Donating Member 12,441 Member For: 16y 9m 8d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 02/05/20 02:57 PM Posted 02/05/20 02:57 PM wow wtf cuts out a muffler then a few days later sell? but didnt want to but had to? feel sorry for the next guy who bought your pos cool story though lol 1
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