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Engine Specific Info and Questions => IDI Engine => Topic started by: shwak23 on May 15, 2013, 03:44:39 pm
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I posted this in the governor mod thread with little response. I feel like this is a fairly common problem.
That is a relation on how you have your external settings set up. I once had my 1.6 NA setup with a fully shimmed governor and I could get in to fifth gear without ever touching the accelerator.
Literally, could idle through every gear and not stall it out. So no the gov mod is not causing this.
Lets discuss this more. I have this same problem. After GOV mod it seems like I lack torque when taking off in first gear. I doubt fuel needs to be turned up. It smokes black at full throttle. And always spews a little haze.
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Could this be a problem with the ecu? My uncles mailman said there was a torque screw... I can't find it though. He said it was on the in tank fuel pump. Will mixing a little gasoline in the fuel help? Off topic question... can I install independent throttle bodies that work with the injection pump?
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If it is for your 1990 golf then it doesn't have an ECU. Also throttle bodies will not help a diesel engine that draws 100% air.
What I see happen is the top plate is not a high tolerance fit. It is not to the nearest .1" even. The ones I have had open have quite a bit of slop. If your cover moved say even .1" away from the cam belt and the fuel screw did not *from original positions* then you will be injecting less fuel than you were previously to the gov. mod.
There is no in tank fuel pump in your car either.
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I'm pretty sure all of his second post is tongue in cheek to bump the thread.
Perhaps your pump is equipped with load dependent timing advance and doing the governor mod has changed the accelerator position for a given fueling enough that the load/timing isn't set up correctly.
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The one, brief time I tried it I felt the same. Years ago and I haven't tried again since. Listening though.
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I posted this in the governor mod thread with little response. I feel like this is a fairly common problem.
Lets discuss this more. I have this same problem. After GOV mod it seems like I lack torque when taking off in first gear. I doubt fuel needs to be turned up. It smokes black at full throttle. And always spews a little haze.
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I also had the low torque first gear problem after the governor mod. . you have to re- index the throttle shaft one notch at a time till you get your torque back
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Even if the idle is normal still?
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I posted this in the governor mod thread with little response. I feel like this is a fairly common problem.
Lets discuss this more. I have this same problem. After GOV mod it seems like I lack torque when taking off in first gear. I doubt fuel needs to be turned up. It smokes black at full throttle. And always spews a little haze.
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I also had the low torque first gear problem after the governor mod. . you have to re- index the throttle shaft one notch at a time till you get your torque back
Yeah that doesn't seem right. I thought things get rather loopy when you are off by even one notch.
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I'm pretty sure all of his second post is tongue in cheek to bump the thread.
Perhaps your pump is equipped with load dependent timing advance and doing the governor mod has changed the accelerator position for a given fueling enough that the load/timing isn't set up correctly.
Stupid questions about ecus and in tank pumps get responses really fast. :P
I bought my pump from a guy on here. Let me dig up what modifications he did to it so we can see what we are working with.
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Fully shimmed governor and some dynamic timing advance.
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Even if the idle is normal still?
idle was low because throttle shaft was indexed wrong. I tried to compensate by turning up idle speed screw, which did raise the idle but produced low first gear torque. the only way I was able to get first gear torque back was to reindex throttle shaft. it was a p.i.t.a to drive like that.
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My idle wasn't low, still low torque at low rpm. As I recall anyway, been awhile.
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Even if the idle is normal still?
idle was low because throttle shaft was indexed wrong. I tried to compensate by turning up idle speed screw, which did raise the idle but produced low first gear torque. the only way I was able to get first gear torque back was to reindex throttle shaft. it was a p.i.t.a to drive like that.
Do you recall how much and in what direction you changed it?
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Even if the idle is normal still?
idle was low because throttle shaft was indexed wrong. I tried to compensate by turning up idle speed screw, which did raise the idle but produced low first gear torque. the only way I was able to get first gear torque back was to reindex throttle shaft. it was a p.i.t.a to drive like that.
Do you recall how much and in what direction you changed it?
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in the direction you want to increase throttle. how much? by trial and error.
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Ok so turns out you were all correct. It was the throttle arm. To think I have been driving around for months like this. The spot where it was and the spot where it is now are one tooth off. It was hard to tell they were even different which is why I think the member on here messed it up. Honest mistake. But boy does it make a huge difference in the power I have in first gear now.
So I would say if you have done the governor mod and lost torque. This was your problem. I drove the car for months in the wrong spot and for the most part it seemed fine.
Wolf walker... I highly suggest you give this another try.
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Right on, I will have to add this to my Governor Mod thread :)
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Where do people usually find their throttle arms land when correct? This pump lined up with the line that points towards the passenger strut tower. It is a turbo pump.
I had a different pump that lined up with with the center line. That was an NA pump. With the later style springs.
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Where do people usually find their throttle arms land when correct? This pump lined up with the line that points towards the passenger strut tower. It is a turbo pump.
I had a different pump that lined up with with the center line. That was an NA pump. With the later style springs.
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Don't know if its odd but every single running motor I have got and loose injection pumps the shaft was lined up like this \
Inline with last mark pointing up to the left.
I have also had this symptom when trying to bring an unknown injection pump back to life that had the wrong fuel screw in it. It was frustrating as hell to get to the baseline but atleast after that I was able to slowly tune things back to the car I was used to. Lol I remember going on my first drive after I thought I had the car working good using the dash tach. I could barely make it down the street.
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So post-gov mod, back the idle and fuel screw off, put the throttle lever forward a notch, then re-set idle/smoke?
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But how did that fix the black smoke at WOT and the constant haze at other times?
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I think I worded that wrong.
Once I am in boost it doesn't really smoke. If I start getting in it out of boost that is when it smokes a bit. I have yet to mess with the idle and fuel screw since fixing the throttle placement.
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I think I worded that wrong.
Once I am in boost it doesn't really smoke. If I start getting in it out of boost that is when it smokes a bit. I have yet to mess with the idle and fuel screw since fixing the throttle placement.
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The theory is the LDA is there to prevent over-fueling before boost comes on.
I haven't messed with it but one can probably tune that out to a degree.
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I have mine tuned to smoke always.. :P LOL. The 1.6TD's K24/T3 is such a slug to spool, that the extra wasted heat out the exhaust does its job to spool the turbo a little quicker.
The smoke clears to a fair haze once boost really picks up at like 2400.. However the BOV in the intake kicks open at like 11psi.. so it doesnt really spool hard.