rags Posted October 9, 2007 Share Posted October 9, 2007 Well I took the car to work today after coming back from the convention to test a new CV axle I installed yesterday. All was fine until I stopped for gas. When I started the car back up I'm either missing 2 or 3 cylinders! My guess is a coil went out or one of the injector drivers went out. I'll go out in the parking lot in a few to figure out if it's ignition or fuel. Anyone else have something like this happen? Joe with a hurtin Tec2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RB26powered74zcar Posted October 9, 2007 Share Posted October 9, 2007 How long has it been since you have removed the coils from the base and cleaned up the prongs where they seat down on the base? Also, might want to remove the two green (or black or orange, if after market) wire connectors from their holders and clean the green crust that forms on them. I've had issues with both of those areas in the past. They both get heavy scale and corrosion on them over time... I used a tiny dental tool and some emery paper to clean them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rags Posted October 9, 2007 Author Share Posted October 9, 2007 A little update. I just went out to the car and found 2 and 5 are not lighting off. Funny thing is I do have spark at the coil and swapping the injector connections around shows the injector drivers are fine. So I'm down to fouled plugs, bad injectors or compression. Compression is a long shot since it ran fine on the way into the gas station. Further troubleshooting is going to have to wait until I find a plug wrench which is damn near impossible working for a Bank! Joe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
z-ya Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 Joe, Glad to hear you made it back from the convention OK. I'd say fouled plugs. What plug, and what gap are you running? I still haven't figured out the race car problem. It did fry one of the components in the Megasquirt which I replaced, but still no go. Thought I had it figure out last night. Something is messing up the trigger signal now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rags Posted October 19, 2007 Author Share Posted October 19, 2007 Hi Pete, Yep, made it home ok. It was 2 fouled plugs. I'm using NGK BR8ES plugs with a 32 gap. I think I just have the TOG set a little to large. I set it this way because I'm a little paranoid . I'll be out tuning again this weekend. The car is running surprising well! I'm really interested in what you find with the MS. I knew it had to have fried something when we were trying to jump it. Joe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
z-ya Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 A BR8ES is pretty cold for the street. You might want to go with BR7ES. A 32 thousands gap is fine. I'll let you know what I find out about the MS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rags Posted October 19, 2007 Author Share Posted October 19, 2007 Thanks Pete. I'll try the 7's. Joe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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