Hey guys and gals,

I have a question regarding driving untuned. I'm going to be throwing my BBK full on this weekend and was thinking of throwing my iFIC 1050's in as well. I'll be driving up to Chicago to get tuned on the 8th or 9th of June before I go to TX for 3 months.

My question is, will I be alright driving from STL to Chicago with the 1050's in the car untuned? I searched but could only find stuff that pertained to driving untuned on a newly built motor.

Would I be better off driving up to Chicago on my stock injectors and having the shop swap my 1050's in once I get there? I would rather not dump unecessary fuel into my motor, and if its not safe or advised against.

Thanks for the help guys.


Kyle

 

NOOOO.. Do not put them in yet.

 

if you need to just take a some tools with you and do it in the parking lot before you get it tuned

 

Ask the tuner to send you a base map with the correct injector scaling and latency, then install and drive to get tuned. If you can't get a base map, then wait and do it there.

 

+1, a friend of mine installed it in the parking lot & then got it tuned.. It's not that hard...

 

Now...I'm not saying to drive long distances, however, if you wanted to start the car to move it somewhere, you could use these injector scalings. They are for FIC 1050's, single walbro pump on an '04 Evo VIII:

I used these scalings and they worked great. FWIW, I got them from mrfred.




-Bink

 

Dont want to hijack your post, but I got the same situation. The difference is that Im running dw850cc. From my place to the shop is about 50 miles. Is it safe to drive the car to the shop with the injectors on?

 

You already run pig rich from the factory, so by throwing those injectors in your dumping that much more fuel into it. It wont run good at all and you have a good possibly of washing out the cylinders. So NO, dont drive with them in UNTUNED.

 

+ 1 don't put them on yet

 

Thanks for the info guys, I really appreciate it....its about a 5 hr drive from my house to strictly modified so I didnt want to take the chance and figured I'd ask first and get some opinions.

 

wait till you get there it takes 5 min to install injectors

 

Definitely wait. It only takes a couple of tools and 20 minutes maximum.
I put FIC 880's in before my 1.5 hour drive to get tuned, and it was spitting and sputtering the whole way there.

Good luck!

 

Just wait and install it when your there in the parking lot

 

just install the injectors and let us know what happen!!!!