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mk3focusrs·Ford Focus RS (MK3)bydmtalon

What did you do to your RS today?

Just a first post with some content. I was doing a bit of troubleshooting. I swapped back to my stock HPFP(high pressure fuel pump) and fuel Injectors to prove or disprove that all my other parts were working ok. Been struggling with drivability issues with an upgraded XDI HPFP and Injectors setup and a 93 octane tune. (cold start issues, idle surge, too much burbling, and creating lots of soot).

I actually spoke with XDI today, which I probably should have done before swapping back, and it sounds like it's not completely uncommon to have some "too much fuel" issues when running pump gas with this setup. Ultimately I want to run E85 anyway, but wanted to make sure the issues were not related to some other hardware issue vs the pump/injectors. Car is running flawless on the stock HPFP/Injectors.

I wanted to get the 93 tune dialed before switching to E85, but after talking to XDI it sounds like E85 might solve my issues by requiring ~30% more fuel. As I understand it, with pump gas the injectors can't open/close fast enough (pulse width) to keep the fueling right, and still be in spec.

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sailing·Sailingbydmtalon

Last weekend sailing club raft-up/overnight

We had 6 boats for the raft-up/hangout, then 4 off us stayed overnight. The next morning I cooked my breakfast for the first time after finding a "period correct" alcohol stove over the winter!

After I cleaned everything up, I detached from the raft-up, and did some poleless/preventerless wing on wing (which is far too much work!) down to the main section of the lake where it was wider, then sailed down and back getting about 12 miles in for the day!

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running·Runningbydmtalon

444 miles on my last running shoes!!

I have never gotten 400 miles out of a shoe. I'm 190lb runner and have gotten as low as around 200 miles and looking back through my Garmin retired shoes managed 370 once. At any rate, shout out to these Brooks Ghost 13's :)

Normally something (knees) let me know it's time to switch. These I retired due to running out of sole! At any rate, 95 activities, and 444 miles is a record for me!

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