sr20det idles fine, wont drive!

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Originally Posted by ultimateirving

Sounds like a bad maf, everything that youv'e described sounds like my car when i have blown off couplers on the road, and it takes every ounce of the car's energy to limp to a safe spot. Doesnt want to drive, Bucks and stalls. idles decently but once load is added it struggles.

Get another maf and test it.
Also is the sidemount recirculated? Ive heard them to be faulty and cause issues.

I just retimed/adj. fuel pressure and TPS back to orig. recommended numbers. Same issues, but I had my wife try to drive it, and from outside when moving, the SMIC (all stock/recirculated) sounds like carpet dragging on the ground (if that makes sense), like it is struggling. I don't have experience with them, is that normal?

I do not have another maf to test, so I will just buy a new one.
Update. I had a FMIC setup waiting anyway, so I hooked it up. This resulted in zero improvement (except it doesnt sound like a carpet dragging anymore!).

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OK. so I decided to time my car via a spark plug wire in the #1 cylinder instead of the "loop" in the back (which I used and have been using, per the fsm). The spark plug wire method showed me that 15deg btdc with the "loop" actually put me at 5 btdc, not where I should have been! Sooooo, I retimed using the spark plug wire timing method and it runs a heck of alot better. A few more minor details to work over and I should be golden.