94 WRX Electrical Issues... IVE HAD ENOUGH ITS ABOUT TO GO OVER A CLIFF

[mattapo]

what about fuel pump?

[Shale]

It's a weird one like that, I thought fuelling too but Matt pointed out that it would likely splutter like fuel surge, rather than simply drop out entirely.

At least you've seen the car at its finest, stalling out everywhere ;D

[Guest Fastfour]

Flic did that for a bit. Started and ran alright then after a few minutes sounded like it dropped a cylinder and ran like shet then died.

Worked out that something in the alternator was a bit funky. Pulled it apart and cleaned the thing up and it was ok again. Was undriveable when it did it too.

[mattapo]

 Shale said:

It's a weird one like that, I thought fuelling too but Matt pointed out that it would likely splutter like fuel surge, rather than simply drop out entirely.

At least you've seen the car at its finest, stalling out everywhere ;D

lol, yea the whip lash was nasty, lol.

Perhaps a dodgy cam or crank angle sensor

[gazzy2000]

 boostin said:

Det doesn't make the engine stall and then not restart.

I've seen it myself. Idling away nicely in the drive, then coughs and stalls, and won't restart for a minute or so. There was no det while idling!!

Just throwing ideas out there bud. He said the cutting out issue is there cruising, accerlating etc NOT just at idle.

In no way what i am suggesting meant to be the "bonified" fix, i just know that if i had a car that logged data that hinted at knocks being detected & highly advanced timing etc, i would be investigating that further, especially when every other thing thats been tried has failed.

i think they call that a process of elemination

[Guest boostin]

Oh yeah for sure. Any ideas are good ideas.

[DRFVDR]

If it was carbied I would say flooding

offer still there nice 1986 RX11 Coupe

[Guest lan_killa]

ok, sorry I havnt been on in the last few days... been a bit sick

So... in the mean time I decided to install and setup the possumlink ive had sitting around for a while... and suprise suprise there is no more cutting out, so Im thinking my issues may have been somewhere in the AFM wiring... but the AFM is now unplugged as the link doesnt require it to run.

Got a couple of small tuning issues to sort out but otherwise it looks like its all rock and roll

Have also noticed my alternator making some real funny buzzing noises, and have always had a bit of a whine through the stereo, but I think the stereo whine is due to the amp being rather fuc*ed... the alternator buzzing is a bit concerning though

[Shale]

Would you like to take the rex off for a while longer and fix it properly, have Frankie in the meantime?

[Guest]

 lan_killa said:

ok, sorry I havnt been on in the last few days... been a bit sick

So... in the mean time I decided to install and setup the possumlink ive had sitting around for a while... and suprise suprise there is no more cutting out, so Im thinking my issues may have been somewhere in the AFM wiring... but the AFM is now unplugged as the link doesnt require it to run.

Got a couple of small tuning issues to sort out but otherwise it looks like its all rock and roll

Have also noticed my alternator making some real funny buzzing noises, and have always had a bit of a whine through the stereo, but I think the stereo whine is due to the amp being rather fuc*ed... the alternator buzzing is a bit concerning though

is that the alternator i dropd off to you? did i drop you an alternator? i cant remember now

-smurff

[Guest lan_killa]

yup... thats the alternator you gave me... I only got round to sticking it in about 3 weeks ago... didnt make any difference to the running of the car back then

[Guest]

hhmm. . . interesting, note to self, dont give stuff to matt, he will just brake it

-smurff

[Guest lan_killa]

BULLCR*P... you just give away broken sh*t

[Guest]

 lan_killa said:

BULLCR*P... you just give away broken sh*t

LOL! only to you everything else ive gien away seems to have worked, except for a starter motor i gave to stimomo, that died 6 months later the day he sold the car lol

-smurff

[Guest lan_killa]

btw one of those green afm's you gave me was a nissan one... so that would of never worked anyway ya plonker

[Guest]

lol, yea, well, my bad :P i dont read lables that often, it was green, looked right, what do ya do lol

-smurff

[Guest lan_killa]

it had a huge bloody nissan logo on one side... I ended up giving it to wingers when they got me a replacement one so meh

[Guest]

LOL, did it, wow, i may have had my eyes closed lol

was the other one a subaru one?

-smurff

[Guest]

damn you had the same problem as me, I spent many dollars on my engine and then the last thing I didnt look further into was the tps, it sometimes out of range, it was a bastard of a problem I gotta second hand one but it did the same. but with all my tinkering, replacing knock sensor, replacing fuel pump even wastegate actuator all made my car better in the long run, I had my car hooked up on some scanner and it was reading the outputs of my sensors like the tps, he reckoned it was dodgy again but by then gave up with it and replaced engine and ecu with a v4 sti engine.

[Shale]

 slowrx said:

damn you had the same problem as me, I spent many dollars on my engine and then the last thing I didnt look further into was the tps, it sometimes out of range, it was a bastard of a problem I gotta second hand one but it did the same. but with all my tinkering, replacing knock sensor, replacing fuel pump even wastegate actuator all made my car better in the long run, I had my car hooked up on some scanner and it was reading the outputs of my sensors like the tps, he reckoned it was dodgy again but by then gave up with it and replaced engine and ecu with a v4 sti engine.

Did you check the last post date, and the OP? Dude's deleted himself (lol ragequit) and the thread is nearly 9 months dead...

[kamineko]

lol, i didn't notice either

guess he wasn't joking 'bout that cliff

[dubbedup]

 kamineko said:

lol, i didn't notice either

guess he wasn't joking 'bout that cliff

hehe