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       #Post#: 240--------------------------------------------------
       SR20 Help
       By: fogls Date: February 23, 2014, 9:34 pm
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       Ok long story short a while back I wired up a SAFC NEO to my
       car.  S14 with S13 Sr20det.  I didn't realize it at the time but
       I had the wrong pin out for my ecu.  Come to find out I had the
       power wire for the NEO hooked up to the number one cylinder
       signal wire.  Car went in to limp mode.  I got it back out got
       rid of the NEO and found out I had lost spark to cylinder one.
       I have now replaced the entire engine harness with a brand new
       Wiring Specialties harness, replaced the coil on cylinder one,
       and tried four different ignitor chips.  The ignitor I bought
       off ebay gets hot and the car will not run on its own.  I was
       given a different chip and the car runs the best on that one.
       will idle all day long but definitely still only on three
       cylinders.  The original chip that was on the car makes the car
       run a little rough but it will stay idling.  with any of the
       chips I can unhook the coil for cylinder one at idle and nothing
       changes.  I pulled the coil and checked I am definitely not
       getting spark there.  I am getting fuel as I checked that as
       well.  Compression is 1-4 138 138 140 140 so compression is not
       an issue.  The only thing I have not checked or replaced is the
       ecu.  Is it possible that something shorted in the ecu for
       cylinder one?  Nothing looked or smelled burnt on the inside of
       it.  Car is driving me nuts.  Also my wideband reads 14.8 while
       car is running all the time.  Never moves.  used to bounce all
       over before this happened.  Any help is greatly appreciated.
       #Post#: 241--------------------------------------------------
       Re: SR20 Help
       By: oni_jake Date: February 23, 2014, 10:59 pm
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       You should check the ECU by replacing it with a known good one.
       It seems you have eliminated all of the other causes.
       #Post#: 245--------------------------------------------------
       Re: SR20 Help
       By: fogls Date: February 24, 2014, 3:49 am
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       That is kind of what I was thinking as well.  Thanks Jake.
       Does anyone know of any place that sells ecu's other than eBay?
       #Post#: 246--------------------------------------------------
       Re: SR20 Help
       By: tungm Date: February 24, 2014, 6:09 am
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       unplug your injectors one at a time.
       #Post#: 256--------------------------------------------------
       Re: SR20 Help
       By: fogls Date: February 24, 2014, 3:05 pm
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       What will unhooking the injectors one at a time tell me?  I want
       to make sure that I am looking for the right response.  Also
       would the cam angle sensor have anything to do with this issue?
       #Post#: 263--------------------------------------------------
       Re: SR20 Help
       By: tungm Date: February 24, 2014, 7:30 pm
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       just let you know if one injector is dead. It happened to my SR.
       Admittedly I didn't think of it, Tyler did this for me at an
       event. He solved the problem for me. Whichever one doesn't
       change the idle/rev quality is your bad one.
       #Post#: 269--------------------------------------------------
       Re: SR20 Help
       By: fogls Date: February 24, 2014, 9:23 pm
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       I got ya.  I kind of did that by swapping the injector from
       cylinder one to cylinder two and two in to cylinder one.
       Nothing changed when I did that.  However while the car is
       idling if I unhook the coil on cylinder one nothing happens.  If
       I unhook the coil in cylinder two the car dies out.  Kind of the
       same thing as the injectors only with the coils instead.  I took
       that to mean that cylinder one still wasn't firing.  I will
       check the injectors anyways just to be sure.  Thanks for the
       info.
       #Post#: 605--------------------------------------------------
       Re: SR20 Help
       By: fogls Date: March 26, 2014, 4:34 pm
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       Ok so I am back out messing with my car and I am at a loss.
       Still doesn't seem to be running right. I pulled the plug out of
       cylinder 1 and put it in the coil and cranked it over. It is
       definitely getting spark now. Also when I pulled the plug it was
       a little wet like some gas had been getting in there. I unhooked
       each injector one at a time to see what that would do. When I
       unhook 1 nothing changes. when I unhook 2, 3, or 4 it starts to
       die out. If I unhook the coil for cylinder one nothing happens.
       I am going to try 2,3,and 4 now and see what happens.  Also the
       whole time this is going on my wideband is stuck on 14.8.  It
       used to bounce all over the place before this.  I did also get
       the brand new harness and another ecu I picked up hooked up in
       the car.  It seems like I am making some progress but not sure
       if I am missing something.  Anyone have any ideas?
       #Post#: 606--------------------------------------------------
       Re: SR20 Help
       By: fogls Date: March 26, 2014, 6:34 pm
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       If I unhook any of the other three coils the car starts to die.
       It is definitely running rich now. There is a fair amount of
       black smoke coming out now.
       #Post#: 607--------------------------------------------------
       Re: SR20 Help
       By: oni_jake Date: March 26, 2014, 6:42 pm
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       Something is obviously wrong with cylinder one. Since your
       compression test came back fine I would suggest your problem
       lies in the injector or coilpack. Get a voltemeter, they're like
       $20, and check voltage and ground to the sensors, and resistance
       as well. If those two come back fine, your problem is
       %100000000000 million trillion an air problem, either a boost
       leak or MAF. Infact, you probably already looked over the
       problem and thought there was nothing wrong.
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