| The injector multiplier on mine was sitting at something like 32000. I don't even think the right anything was loaded on my ECU. Engine was full of fuel etc. Car wouldn't start, I cleared out the cylinders and cleaned up the spark plugs. I thought I just had bad gas as it had been sitting for a while. Drained the tank and put new fuel in. Put the plugs back in and went to start it and it did finally kick over on one cylinder while at least number 3 and maybe 5 had enough fuel in them to hydrolock. Blown head gasket (didn't know it happened quite yet). Went back and checked the tune finally and replaced it with a stock tune that I just rescaled for my 300degree rails and Nismo 740cc injectors. The car started right up, then I heard the sickening sound of coolant leaking from the drivers side turbo and hitting the ground. Great customer service. Glen, So you might want to be more careful with the maps that you load
onto your ECU's. You must have loaded the wrong one on mine as my
car repeatedly flooded while trying to start it. I found that the
injection multiplier was set to 32000. I proceeded to load a map
with an origional multiplier of 288 (resized to 144 to account for
the 740cc injectors). The car started right up and I was greeted
with a coolant and oil on the ground from a blown head gasket and
bad piston ring caused from the hydrolock of the engine being
flooded with fuel. I am now looking at having to have the engine
honed, new rings, and new head gaskets.
Thanks for the headaches, Mark Olsen 4 days later after sending him this email above at least 3 times I get this. Yes, I've seen your response ..
You made it clear you had problems and proceeded on without taking precautions for engine damage. I don't know what happened to the flash but I do know that if you'd read all the documents you'd have seen that "If your car doesn't start,, you smell gas,, fuel pump keeps running,,, engine is hard to turn over,,,, do not try to start your car but check all settings... To me that's pretty basic but it is written in the documents.
You should have Stopped when it did not start or you smelt gas.. or became hard to turn over. It would have been very hard for the starter to turn over if the cylinders were flooded and that again would be another red flag on stopping and checking everything before proceeding..
I hate to see anyone have to do additional work because of failure to follow basic mechanical rules. Regards Glenn McCall Part in bold where he quotes documents was related to the Type 1 manual which had this issue below. "He was quoting the Type 1 manual (several pages in). That was to do with the older style MAF with hot wire on earlier models being held too long when corrupt ROM images were used (or wiring was wrong). Either way the ECU ran bad, sent a nice long voltage to the hot wire and blew it. Not directly related to your problem" If the ECU runs limp mode with bigger injectors (due to bad install or wrong ENT used) it will may cause minor flooding on bigger injectors. However since limp just injects a preset amount (only enough to maintain idle for stock injectors ... then it just leans out). So limp mode wouldnt cause flooding to the extent that you had and we havent needed to put warnings in to that effect yet Your case was different... it wasnt running limp mode but pouring more fuel in... a lot more than limp mode would also. The part he quoted wasnt completely related and was for a different board type to what you were using.
Not exactly sure why I would be reading a type 1 manual when we have type 2 boards?
Anyways I do admit I was rather new to cars at this point at only having done the basics suspension etc etc. And if I had known what I had known now this would have never been an issue. Now I know that the first thing I should do is check the tune on the ECU from the guy who claims to be a pro at installing them. Good to know he doesn't even follow his own advice in looking things over based on the story that started this thread. I ended up getting a refund from Matt at Nistune for at least the Nistune License who is the one quoted above for my troubles. He is a great guy and will be getting my business from now out directly after this fiasco. This was just supposed to be a simple fuel injector install and new ECU for the winter. Instead I ended up building my motor and spending a lot more etc. And this Glenn guy still has my money for sending me a product that honestly was just completely wrong. If only I had stuck to my guns and just had him send me the ECU and I would have loaded up my own rom image. At the time I was new to the Z world and I doubted most of you would believe me as he seemed to be well liked by the community so I just kind of let it go. I know I have posted parts of this previously but figure anything that can keep people from having to deal with this is a good thing. Sorry for the rant. Hope this helps out people.
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