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Old 04-20-2008, 10:35 PM   #1
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another reason why autozone is the best

Well, I had just finished putting in my fuel pump hot wire kit and LC-1 wideband (which is simulating a narrowband sensor as well) and noticed that I was idling at 13.5 AFR and my AFR while cruising was between 12.5 and 13.5.

I thought it was running a bit rich and something might be goofy, so I wanted to go check if I was throwing any codes due to an inaccurate narrowband sim (even though the HC stink was prevalent ever since the car was tuned). As I walked up to the front door of autozone, I noticed they had just closed 4 minutes earlier. I saw the kid who wasted 10 minutes of my time earlier in the day trying to find my sparkplugs and he was now sweeping the floor by the door, so I knocked. He, in a most dickful way, told me they were closed and I would have to come back tomorrow. I then told him I just needed to borrow the OBDII scanner for all of 1 minute and I'd be on my way. His retort was, "I just told you we were closed. End of conversation." It's real nice when someone wastes your time and can't even make up for it by going out of their way for 30 seconds.

On a separate note, does anyone know if my AFR would be causing blow by due to the cylinder walls getting washed out? Part of the reason I got the wideband was so I could start tuning my own stuff because I thought my tune was rich from the get go. And also because my oil tends to smell like gas, yet I don't have any fuel in my oil when I drain it. I'm getting sick of changing my oil every few weeks just because I'm paranoid I have a ton of gas contaminating it.
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