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Helppp!!!
Well ive searched and nothin has come up that will help me. There are like 5 or 6 threads that came up. But none can really relate to my actually probalems. Im getting a CEL p0172 "system to rich" The car idles fine, but as im driving down the road the car spits and sputters a little bit especially between shifts. The car is also Dumping black smoke out at WOT even when just cruising the car is putting out black smoke. Now i just recently wrecked the car on ice and the only mechanical parts that were replaced were the Oil cooler, and the LICP. Ive talked to the shop that just did most of the work to my car CBRD and Chad said to check all of my boost lines/pipes. I know this is gonna come up so my current mods are TBE, Megan Mani, Epm Dump, MBC,Ets FMIC, Rmr upic, Ets version 2 LICP, Shep trans, Fidanza clutch, Mishimoto rad, Hks ssqv (VTA), and stock turbo. Now b4 u all say its the VTA bov the car ran completely fine b4 it went into the shop. If anyone has any ideas on what i should check let me know!!! im stummped guys...thanks in advance!
Last edited by OhsixIXBish; Jan 15, 2009 at 03:39 AM.
i'm sure its the VTA bov, i had the same problem when i first got my evo they had the stock bov VTA and it ran fine for a week or so but then the CEL light came on and i had the same P0172 code and i fixed the bov and recirculated it reset the ecu and was fine from there on out
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yeah but how come just now after almost a year its doing this? the body shop said they got a code also and the car was spittin and running like $hit on them to. they pulled the code and he said they got a misfire code. Thye said they pulled the plugs out cleaned em and it ran fine the light was off until i got a mile down the road from the body shop and the car had no where near as much ***** as it went into the body shop..
Well ive searched and nothin has come up that will help me. There are like 5 or 6 threads that came up. But none can really relate to my actually probalems. Im getting a CEL p0172 "system to rich" The car idles fine, but as im driving down the road the car spits and sputters a little bit especially between shifts. The car is also Dumping black smoke out at WOT even when just cruising the car is putting out black smoke. Now i just recently wrecked the car on ice and the only mechanical parts that were replaced were the Oil cooler, and the LICP. Ive talked to the shop that just did most of the work to my car CBRD and Chad said to check all of my boost lines/pipes. I know this is gonna come up so my current mods are TBE, Megan Mani, Epm Dump, MBC, Shep trans, Fidanza clutch, Mishimoto rad, Hks ssqv (VTA) now b4 u all say its the VTA bov the car ran completely fine b4 it went into the shop. If anyone has any ideas on what i should check let me know!!! im stummped guys...thanks in advance!
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the car is back in the shop if the shop that worked on it, that did the body work cant figure it out then its goin back to CBRD, The body shop has a meechanic shop also. I dropped it off last night so ill see what they have to say today.
The cars tune was fine. its something besides that, im thinkin the 02 senors/ mass airflow or a boost leak.
the car ran completely fine b4 it went into the shop
Last edited by OhsixIXBish; Jan 15, 2009 at 11:03 AM.
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Sounds like a boost leak ... maybe more was damaged than you thought. The P0172 is usually caused by a boost leak, bad O2 or improperly scaled injectors. With your situation, it's sounds like a leak.
+1 to that. I installed my aem intake and had a huge boost leak and got that code. do a boost leak test.
