So I have been diagnosing this for a while. The car will crank fine with no issues now but it will not try and start. This is what I have tried thus far.
-pulled the plugs. They were completely black and I thought they smelled like fuel. It may have just been the carbon or a bit of oil in the galley that fooled me.
-while I had a plug out I placed it against the head and turned it over. Did not see spark. Therefore I figured that the car had no spark and started to diagnose that.
-pulled all my coils and the subharness I made. I did the IS300 mod. Checked the primary coil resistance. All three coils had 0.9 ohms.
-Checked the subharness for continuity on the wiring and they all checked out. 0.5 ohms resitance for all three signal wires.
-Checked the placement of the coils and wires. Coils were placed on cylinders 2,3 and 6. Wires went from 2 to 5, 3 to 4, and 6 to 1. Still need to make some hold down brackets but that won't affect anything.
-I also tried to check the voltage from the terminal to the ground (head). With the ignition switch one, the TSRM says it's supposed to have 12 volts. I found it to have 0.3 volts at all terminals. This test did not make sense to be though. I would think the car should be cranking over during this test.
This is my spark issue thus far. Now on to the fuel problem.
-When I pulled the second set of plugs out, I did not smell fuel. I checked the gauge on my Aeromotive AFPR. It has zero pressure registered. So I guess this shows that my next problem is fuel. I have never had an AFPR before and I do not know what I could be doing wrong. The manual for it says that after install the key should by cycled to the on position a few times to build pressure in the system which will register on the gauge. From my understanding or our fuel pump system this will not work. I believe our pump does not turn on until the key is in the start position. Regardless, when the car is cranking it doesn't build pressure either.
So here I sit on a wednesday night, very confused. Any help would be appreciated.
-pulled the plugs. They were completely black and I thought they smelled like fuel. It may have just been the carbon or a bit of oil in the galley that fooled me.
-while I had a plug out I placed it against the head and turned it over. Did not see spark. Therefore I figured that the car had no spark and started to diagnose that.
-pulled all my coils and the subharness I made. I did the IS300 mod. Checked the primary coil resistance. All three coils had 0.9 ohms.
-Checked the subharness for continuity on the wiring and they all checked out. 0.5 ohms resitance for all three signal wires.
-Checked the placement of the coils and wires. Coils were placed on cylinders 2,3 and 6. Wires went from 2 to 5, 3 to 4, and 6 to 1. Still need to make some hold down brackets but that won't affect anything.
-I also tried to check the voltage from the terminal to the ground (head). With the ignition switch one, the TSRM says it's supposed to have 12 volts. I found it to have 0.3 volts at all terminals. This test did not make sense to be though. I would think the car should be cranking over during this test.
This is my spark issue thus far. Now on to the fuel problem.
-When I pulled the second set of plugs out, I did not smell fuel. I checked the gauge on my Aeromotive AFPR. It has zero pressure registered. So I guess this shows that my next problem is fuel. I have never had an AFPR before and I do not know what I could be doing wrong. The manual for it says that after install the key should by cycled to the on position a few times to build pressure in the system which will register on the gauge. From my understanding or our fuel pump system this will not work. I believe our pump does not turn on until the key is in the start position. Regardless, when the car is cranking it doesn't build pressure either.
So here I sit on a wednesday night, very confused. Any help would be appreciated.
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If they don't make adequate contact with the plug.....no spark. Mine just cranked; but, wouldn't fire. That's when I went back to the stockers...