Don't post here at all, usually just skim... But THIS was interesting!
Sorry to disagree with your shop-bash-fest but it looks to me like you had a relay get fried - plain and simple - Could be a bad relay, could be a voltage spike from the PCM somehow (more on that later...). I don't know the shop owner but I know of them and I think they are one of very few KB certified installers and KB doesn't hand that designation out like cookies. They probably have installed 100's of BAPs.
On to the PCM spike - "someone" had the wrong impedance injectors onboard. This NEVER plays pretty with a stock PCM. Running low impedance injectors without a resistor box on a stock Ford PCM will substantially increase the temperature of the transistor driver IC due to the increase in current flow. It will QUICKLY increase injector temperatures and quickly get the transistor and IC junctions well past design temp limits. This can cause havoc with a vehicle. Could be the PCM is near it's death throes because of this and it's doing very weird things like throwing codes and not communicating right with the FPDM. It happens. Unfortunately, what YOU did was one of the quickest ways to kill or cripple a PCM. I think you admitted that wasn't the shop's fault. If I were advising a shop what to do with a car that came in with: wrong impedance injectors; a hacked bypass you did and; the wrong belt you chose and that you didn't understand that you cannot just add to another shops tune to change injectors, I'd advise the shop to tell you sayanara!, go somewhere else. Don't touch it. In my mind, props to the shop for FINDING the injector problem before your PCM was a smoking pile of goo and for working with you to tune it after you hacked it up. I guess I'd be frustrated too if I were he, all things considered.
Sorry to disagree with you, but it's just so easy to give one side of a story without the shop being here to give its side. And it's just so easy to gloss over the litany of things that probably caused all your current woes, that in fact YOU caused.
Anyway, I really am not bashing you, just trying to educate and highlight some problems as I see them. So good luck to you - hope it all works out for you!
Stan
Stan,
To start with, you mentioned that you usually just skim here and never post...though you joined this month? Also, since you are averaging .75 posts/day with only a single post, you must have joined very recently. Interesting.
Anyways, I agree with you entirely regarding the injectors and, if you read my initial post, I greatly exalted the shop for finding my error and correcting it; also, there was no need to say "someone," as I clearly designated myself in the wrong for getting the wrong injectors. Furthermore, it's not the PCM causing the CEL's because they were not on for the last 500 or so miles; aside from that, it's not doing any "weird" things, so you must have thought there was more to it. Moving along, the EGR bypass was not hacked at all; there was no boost leaks or vacuum problems anywhere. In fact, the only problem regarding its delete that came to light was the CEL coming on because of it. So I am not quite sure where you're going with that. As for the belt: I purchased that belt because I found it from Cobrabob's list. I have no local belt distributors that carry sizes that large so I was on my own to guess and check. I apparently guessed wrong and ended up finding my own error, though I was told by the shop that it was possibly an error in Stiegemeier's port work. This was despite the fact that I mentioned the belt feeling a bit loose.
Lastly, if you can explain what this meant, "that you didn't understand that you cannot just add to another shops tune to change injectors," then maybe I can elaborate on it...but I am not real sure what it says. As for me causing all of the problems, I suppose that's in the eye of the beholder. I'm not exactly sure how dis-aligned exhaust pipes or the purchasing of 500 dollar injectors without speaking to me was my fault, but your opinion is understandable.
Anyways, as I have said a few times throughout this thread, this was not a bash of the shop at all, it was simply an outlining of my happenings. For you to say this is one sided is pretty misguiding, especially considering that I was honest about all the errors I made throughout the experience. I blamed all that was my fault on me. What you may consider marginal errors by the shop I consider the differential between somewhere you go once and somewhere you return to.
Nonetheless, good first post to make. In fact, it seems almost as if it were destined to be your first post...
EDIT: my above post has been changed to include the notes that Stan mentioned as possible ways for the relay harness to have been burnt up.
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