Chris's Lifted BP swap

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That's evap...junk

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But so I. Still need that giant tin can that's by the fuel filter? Or can it be trashed cuz I want to get as much junk out of my car as possible

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That's the evap.. should have had a vacuum line over to the solenoid on the firewall?

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It has the evap on the firewalll but a nipple is busted off so I hurd its fine with out the thang so ill just take it off and the big vacume nipple right under the throttle body where does that go?

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Went to the junkyard and found a gt escort so I took some picks of how stuff goes and I took the vaf the one festy they had there had ac so the mottom pully wouldn't have worked.... but with the vaf on my car now it doesn't run so what's screwed up?

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You need a BP VAF and ecu. Don't know what else, what's it doing?

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I do have a bp vaf. And the ecu? With a shot of throttle body cleaner it starts up for a second and dies. With out the vaf it starts right up with no problem at all

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It should start up for a second and die without a VAF, sounds like you have exactly the opposite problem! Check over the swap thread and make sure you didn't miss anything.

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Yea I may just take the vaf out if I don't need it haha make it cleaner looking in the engine bay but ill look over the build thread but sime wires I didn't know where they went so I kinda just guessed haha

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Yea dude you can't delete the VAF without going standalone.

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Yea that's what I thought to but it runs better with out it but ill look for the problem tomorrow and anh other thangs I've missed

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Looked today and it starts after about 20 seconds of it cranking over then it revs up then idles normal then just puts out and if you hit the throtle it dies enstently. I also got vacume line plugs! Not the colorfull kinds thow..

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Weight you said I need a escort gt ecu what's wrong with the stock festiva one I thought you could use that... or is it different then the ecm I think I'm missing something here

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fuel maps will be way different, your going from a 63 horsepower engine to a 130 horse engine. you have to have the bp electronics or the car will not run right, and if it runs good enough to drive it won't be putting out as much power as it should. The issues seem like they are probably due to the VAF in general. The car should NOT run if it's not plugged in and hooked up to the throttle body, granted it should fire up for a split second then die. If you have used or are using ether the only thing making it run is leftover fumes. You need to go back through and figure out what went wrong and where. Vacuum leaks will also cause the car to do funny things so get all open ports plugged before you try to fire it up. If you keep trying to make it work without things hooked up properly your probably gonna do some damage to the engine before you even get to drive it.

This is why my BP swap is taking so long, aspire wiring is so different the entire car had to be rewired. At least with a festiva most of the stock wiring can be used.

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Okay I got it to it only runs with the vaf now but still dies when you tap the gas so I'm going tto have to get the ecm of the escort gt cuz my ecm says b376 and nothing is hooked up wrong for what I checked over and over again soany thang I need other then an ecm cuz the whole car is there what else should I grab of it?