Eric, Humor me and try spritzing water from a spray bottle onto the ignition wires and valve cover, not dousing the thing but just getting it all a little moist. Then immediately go out for some WOT > 4K pulls, see if this makes it worse and reliably reproducible. If it does, your high tension leads are simply leaking the electricity when the resistance is higher @ the spark plug.
This is a boosted car, correct? Regards, Vito Caputo On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 01:27:26AM -0400, Eric McCord wrote: > I've got a wide band installed but not hooked up yet. I need to mod the link > ecu for wide band when I get home. I had a situation where I could not start > and no blower and wipers didn't work. Then while driving on the highway it > all started working again.....hence my ground problem diagnosis. > > On Jul 30, 2010 12:22 AM, "derf" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I had symptoms that I thought for sure were caused by a bad fuel pump. > Intermittently, it would act like it was starving for fuel at anything > other than idle and would go after much hesitation at around 4k RPM. > $100 later (new Walbro pump) I realized that the fuel pump wasn't the > problem. > A $45 O2 sensor fixed the problem, though on my 1994. > If you can cut and splice wires then don't pay $150 for an O2 sensor. > Get the $50 unit and save a bundle. > _______________________________________________ > Miatapower mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.miatapower.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/miatapower _______________________________________________ Miatapower mailing list [email protected] http://list.miatapower.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/miatapower
