z0-pHey gang, I'm helping a buddy diagnose a persistent lean condition 
on his stock 94.  We could use some help on this...

His 94 has a stock fuel system and stock ECU, with a narrow band O2 and 
AF meter.

The car is running quite lean almost all the time.  It shows a normal 
dithering on the AFR meter at idle and a very light cruise.  It's lean 
at any rpm above 5000 and at any more than just light throttle (cruising 
or very light acceleration in low gears).  If we go WOT from idle, it 
stays rich until 2000rpm and then goes dead lean, and stays lean until 
the rev limit.  Power is down significantly, but it does not ping.  It 
doesn't misfire except, it always has an extra hesitation as it passes 
through 5000rpm.

Here's what we've done for diagnosis so far:

~ swapped MAF with known good unit - car ran slightly worse (slight 
misfire at med throttle angles)
~ swapped NBO2 with known good unit - no change.
~ verified voltage at fuel pump - ignition on and FP jumped in the 
diagnostic box, blue/red wire had 12V, yellow wire had 8V. Grounds had 
continuity. -- by the way, what is that yellow wire for???
~ cleaned all ground points (didn't look too bad to begin with).
~ clamped fuel return line after FRP - no change in running or AFR meter 
reading.

A local shop said that they verified good fuel pressure and swapped in a 
known good fuel pump - I have not verified any of this myself.
The same shop said they swapped ECUs with no change - I haven't been 
able to verify this myself either.

At one time the car had a JR SC, so the AFM harness and TPS harness have 
been spliced at one point, but seem to have good continuity.

Any ideas?  We're stumped.

-Chuck


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