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Old Jul 27, 2006 | 11:26 PM
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Exclamation Another engine problem

Well I got the car up and running and I can bring it to idle, the trick is if I press the gas at all, it will die out. I was told to search for vaccume leaks and I found two, one a giant hose on the back of the lower intake manafold against the firewall. The other the sub-zero cold start assist plate I made a year ago failed. I just patched those two up and with high hopes fired the beast up...only to have it preform in the exact same way. Any new ideas or thoughts would be helpfull as i'm running purly out of ideas at this stage.
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Old Jul 28, 2006 | 11:46 AM
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this is totally out there, but it once worked for me. pull the injector switch in the fuse's one of the 6 in engine compartment. the green one...thats it lol. then turn it over till yuo here it start dying out, then pop the switch back in and see if it starts. i find that my old rx like to flood alot and having mondo fuel couldnt allow if to keep goin. flsuh it and see if thats your prob. its an ez thing to do, always start simple when breakin down ****. let me know if it works.
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Old Aug 3, 2006 | 02:06 PM
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Damnit

Well I took the car into Greg's Japanese auto and they nearly died. When they saw I had so much blocked off and so much of the harness unused they didn't know where to begin even for a diagonistic. So i'm at a total loss now, I can't even get this bastard to work. So anyone know what I should do with this? Yeah they whole fuse thing dosen't work because I can get it to start and idle as long as I want. Its just when I tap the gas, it wants to die on me.
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Old Aug 4, 2006 | 12:27 AM
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What generation is the car? What mods? What have you dont maintenence wise?
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Old Aug 4, 2006 | 05:09 AM
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Do'h

Well that was quite stupid of me. Yes, its an 87 non-turbo car without any kind of emissions on the beast. Just simple required vaccume lines and eletronic wires.
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Old Aug 4, 2006 | 09:55 AM
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Is the Throttle Position Sensor (or its 2nd gen equivilent) calibrated correctly? O2 sensor bad? Any sort of idle stabilization controller? Is it bad/calibrated? Sorry, Im a 3rd gen guy, so I dont know exactly what sensors there are.
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Old Aug 14, 2006 | 05:28 PM
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Give Andy a try if you are in the lynnwood area or Jerrys little car shop.. Both are excellent mechanics that have been around for Years!
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