so i was outside today trying to boot up the laptop to make another attempt at running the lc-1 wideband
i had forgoten to tighten the clamp on the MAF cause its been on and off a few times the last few days, and it shook loose and fell 2 inches onto the wheel sheild … car backfired and died
just thinking that the car didnt feel like running, i tried to restart … no dice … just another backfire
after discovering the maff was off, i reinstalled and tightened it … wont start
so i pulled the plugs, cleaned them off and tried again … this time the car would just barely fire for me … as long as i had the throttle 1/2 open and the starter engaged it would putter along , but thats it
pulled the plugs again … once again coated in carbon and fuel … died them out and used a blowgun to air out the cylinders, checked for proper spark from both coils, checked for fuel pressure , triple check all the sensors
nothings apparently wrong! i have everything i need for the car to start
Make sure all of the connections at the MAF are tight first. It would be a shame to spend a couple hundred bucks on a new MAF if it was just a connection that pulled loose during the shaking/falling/impact.
Yeah, but the car should still start and idle with a bad or no MAF. My car will run and drive up to 3000 rpm with out a MAF.
Test the MAF. Hook up the ground, and power. Hook up a voltmeter to the return and a ground. Use your mouth and blow through the MAF, you should get tsome readings.
all the maf did was slip off the pipe and land against the plastic sheild that hangs off the drivers side frame
it didnt even fall off all the way either … it just kinda stuck between the sheild and the pipe … i just was under the car and seriously the fall was about and inch, i cant even get 2 fingers into the space between the 2 pieces
i cant beleive thats nearly enough of a fall to ruin a maf … especialy because ive seen cars plow into gaurd rails at 70mph and still fire up
Was the car running right until the MAF fell off? It almost seems like just coincidence that the car is not running after the MAF fell a whole 2 inches. It sorta sounds like the plug wires got shuffled out of order or something like that.
it was running shitty, but only because its a turbo project w. dsm blue tops / adj FPR, a 255 pump and an safc2
i had earlier pulled the battery cable which reset the fuel maps on the ecu, so it was gonna run bad till the ecu maxed out its fuel map to the limit of its adjustment, which would have put the fuel ratio back to “acceptable”
a few pulls down the street would have taken care of that pretty quick , but before i could do that this happened
apparently 4 plug cleanings werent eneough … it needed a 5th time …
now i can adjust the fpr to where i want it, fire up the wideband and fiddle with the safc so it runs nice down the street… again … w/o boost for the moment
i was gonna turn it into an animated gif if i can find that pic of the clown in the red honda with his hat sideways driving like his car is the shit
make him saying “bltsi made my stock honda run run 10 sec 1/4 mile times yo !”
im not about to go tune anyones car … anyone that isnt willing to spend the money to have inn-tune do their tuning shouldnt be modding thier car anyways
