mmkay, those of you on my facebook have seen my struggles with my TBI Camaro. For those unfamiliar, here's a recap.
Labor day weekend 2017 I was driving the car to our new home, and it starts spitting and sputtering and I coast to a stop in a parking lot. After some diagnosis, a few parts thrown at it, and I find out that the driver's side injector is not firing. I buy an injector ($$$) and try to drive the car home. Upon reinstalling the injector, I over tighten the screw and crack open the cup that the injector sits in. No bueno. I wind up paying for the tow that I spent ~$150 trying to avoid. It was only like $35. Lesson learned.
Fast forward a year (car has sat all this time) and after finishing a bunch of house projects, and some personal matters that were more pertinent, I was given an old TBI unit by a friend, and I combined the two with all new gaskets and o rings from oh oh oh oh oh, oreilly.
Install on car, hook up all the censors and hoses, nothing. Kill the battery cranking it. Charge the thing overnight, and still just fast cranking with no ignition. It will spit and sputter when you pour a tiny bit of fuel in the throttle body, but the ECU is not telling the injectors to fire. The fuel pump is priming, and fuel is getting to the input side of the filter. After discovering that my floor jack blows, I gave up on taking it all the way off. I was worried the fuel had varnished after sitting all that time, but I doubt it.
The current goal is to just get the car moving under it's own power so I can finish some projects in the garage. It needs some weatherproofing before winter gets here so hopefully I can work on this thing some in the winter with some heat.
I've got an L31 engine to swap in, and I'm halfway tempted to just pull this one but I know me, and if it sat for a year just needing a little bit of work, if I pull the engine out of frustration it'll never run again.
