Hey, My name is Gamy. I have an 88 TII ive been trying to get running for the past year. It has all kinds of problems. Mostly electrical. I just had the engine Street ported and rebuilt. The has really good paint but the rims ar horrible. I used to have an 88 N/a for 4 years. Loved every second of it. Finally found a tII and has been a few years of nightmares trying to get it running. I think im close.

 

The place that rebuilt it and street ported the engine just left it to you to get tuned?? Who is this horrible shop you went to...?

Mario III

 

What kinds of electrical issues are you running into??

 

It was not a shop but some rotary guys i know. I bought the car from a friend who bought it for like 7g. But the engine only ran once and never started again. We took the engine apart and found out they used different apex seals and one ported housing and another not ported. A frankenstien.

I had to find new rotors and housings, pretty much everything so they would rebuild an engine for me. they put it together and gave it to me. They couldnt figure out the electrical problems and gave up.

I figured out most of the electrical stuff was just missing parts. No Fuel cut relay, fried injector relay, bad ecu. Now i got it to run but its starts and idles at like 200 for a second or two then dies. If i get it to rev up above that it will back fire like crazy and sound like crap. Its weird cuz with the bad ECU it would run and sound really good but would smoke really bad. With new ECU it doesent smoke but runs like crap. And it seems like im getting intermittent spark from the trailing coils.

 

Shops generally only do the work they are requested/paid to do. From what I understand, it's "industry standard" to sell someone a rebuilt engine block and ship it out the door without having any clue of the person's individual setup in their car. I think in order to get a shop to be responsible for tuning, you have to pay for them to do the entire remove/rebuild/install and pay extra for tuning...this assumes that you even have an ECU that can be tuned (power fc or something). Bottom line, you're talking 5-10 G's for a job like that, and most owners won't drop that coin all at once...so they get the engine built as the foundation, then later they add mods and then once that's all done, they try to get it tuned.

 

You're talking about a dyno-driven supertune vs. just a tune to make sure you don't blow up your engine before the mods. Glad the shops around here in the Metroplex don't think like that "industry standard" you mentioned.