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Rb26 Missing, Spluttering, Sluggish, Being A flamin mongrel. Help Me Before I Burn This.


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hey guys

getting over this piece of shit.
freshly built 26 with GTSS's
stock boost, stock injectors, pump with 12v direct feed and stock ecu.
the goal is to get it running nice and mint, in stock format, before i begin adding more fuel, boost etc and reach the final goal.

so far.
car does not miss on idle.
car will miss, splutter, cough etc when given a bit of throttle when cold, wont get above 15kms
once warm, the car will not miss at all, and will drive normal, although EXTREMELY SLUGGISH
i mean, so sluggish the old RB20 went harder than this.
it feels like theres a restriction somewhere.

its doing my head in,



thank you in advance.
ps: im seriously considering burrying this car, this car is the root of all evil, this car is the devil Z's R chassis cousin.
f**k this car.

Wont be the afms as they were swapped out and cleaned, as well as had the solder mod.
tps is possible, cam timing is in stock position.
could be a collapsed cat?

wasnt able to get much done, as the week end was pretty busy, and it was raining.

borrow another CAS, unplug TPS and re-time at 20, plug back TPS, report back :)

will try this as soon as i can

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