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I added a little spark to the cal and now the motor is not running well at all. The idle is very rough and it pings a lot.  I backed out the change, but the problems continue.  I then went back to the cal I was running during the winter, but it still didn’t help.  I swapped the coil, wires, cap, rotor plugs.  No dice.  Next I decided to look at the timing it looked OK, but when I took off the belt cover, I noticed that the idler side of the belt was very loose.  I figured this was making the timing jump around, but even after fixing it and triple-checking the timing again, it still idles bad, pings in boost, and won’t rev past 5k.

05/25/04: Version 1.2 – extended the cold side of a fuel enrichment curve a bit further, as it seemed like it still wasn’t rich enough around 80^F.  Also the RetardFactorFromBarometericPressure was scaled up again to try to cover the 0-2 psi range with a bit more spark.

I found this thing sitting back in the corner of the garage.  Something about being a 2.2L common block with a forged T2 crank, T2 rods, JE forged pistons, big oil pump, etc.  I dunno, maybe it’s good for something….

Driving the car again in the nice weather.  Hopefully I’ll get a chance to do some work on the Daytona.  Tweaked a few things in the cal to fix some summertime “cold” start quirkiness and hopefully addressed a low boost stumble.

Well, the car made it through the rest of the winter and spring.  The mileage is about right and the idle has been getting better and better all by itself.  I beat on the car quite a bit, so that may be helping it a bit.  Could be the warmer weather too.  I fiddled with the trans kickdown cable figured out how to do the proper adjustment procedure.  It helped a little, but it’s still upshift-happy.  Oh well.