Woodward DreamCruise 2002 / Fuel Injection Solved!

["pbartusek" <pbmain@xxxx>]

I *almost* made it out there...and was extremely frustrated to be so 
close, but in the end missing it because of lack of parts access. 
The car had been in the shop a few months now, and they located the 
problem Friday, late morning - the injectors were the main cause of 
my months of frustration and the fact that I wasn't getting the car 
over 2000rpm even though it was idling nicely, not hunting, etc. 

Not sure if anyone else was following the thread of my past 
drivability issues, but they did everything under the sun to the 
fuel injection system. Looked into the cold start regulator, 
swapped fuel pump/fuel distributors/ECU (temporarily), used a 
separate gas tank and pickup and gas itself, checked valve 
clearances and cam timing, replace faulty warm up regulator and 
remove intake to replace the non functioning thermal time switch, 
replace the o2 sensor, not to mention looked at the injectors, out 
of the car, long ago..but a different tech looked at it and a couple 
hours later - surprise: under pressure, the injectors were 
dribbling, even though the pattern was supposedly good when they 
were checked back in May.

Anyhow, I'll be ready for the next Dream Cruise...and hopefully will 
be cruising Woodward tonight, practicing for next year (at about 10 
times the dream cruise speed... :) Should have much better 
performance since every thing on the car has been checked out, and 
the reduced weight of the money in my wallet should help the car get 
up to speed that much faster... (the sad fact of auto repair going 
this much overboard)

Pete