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Your exhaust sounds very loud considering it's going through a turbine. Is there any exhaust pipe at all after the turbo? The backfiring reminds me of what a couple of V8s I've had in the past sounded like when they had a flattened cam lobe.

 

You said that it ran for a month. Did it run well? And is the problem exactly the same as before? Has it always backfired like that? You should summarize the last month or two to give a better picture. It doesn't sound good right now, seems like bigger problems than just won't stay running.

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There's a 2.5 in. Down pipe from msa. It ran really well a month ago, and that was with a weak fuel pump pushing 25 psi. I got it to run after doing a chevy hei module swap since my ignition module was bad. This was about 1-2 months ago. It just started backfiring 2-3 weeks ago after running fine for a month. I now have a walbro on it but I have yet to check the actual pressure. It definitely sounds bad.

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That actually sounds like when I first got my car running with just headers on. Turned out I had routed the fuel lines wrong and was starving the engine of gas (I think).

 

I had it run from the pump, to the FPR then to the fuel rail with a dead end. Not sure if that's flooding or starving the engine of gas

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Sure sounds like you burned an exhaust valve from running a too lean mixture caused by low fuel pressure. Stupid question but did you ever change the fuel filter? You have to address the fuel pressure problem before going anywhere else.

 

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