Honda Sport

here's the deal. I just finished swapping in a d15b7 into my brother's 93 CX. car has been sitting for about a year and so has the motor. the car cranks but doesn't want to turn over. I reused the CX harness. MAP sensor isn't hooked up yet, but does that even matter right now? No CELs right now either.

here's the things I've done so far.

replaced: dizzy cap, rotor, plugs, new battery.

I know fuel is getting to the motor cause when I pull the plugs, fuel is dumped all over all of them. the car has been sitting for almost a year now with less then 1/4 tank of gas. could the gas be bad? I added 2 more gallons on top of the gas that has been sitting in the tank.

Dizzy is fine, checked the igniter with a volt meter, checked the internal coil with an ohm meter, both came out to specs. I also pulled each plug wire one by one and stuck a screwdriver into them and grounded it out while cranking. I was getting a spark on all 4.

I'm going to do a compression test as soon as I can get a hold of one.

what else should I check? I'm at a loss...help of any kind would be nice. thanks in advance.

Jimmy

iTrader: (5)

Check all of your grounds..

If your getting spark and fuel and your 100% sure it won't be hard to narrow down at all.

Does this motor you put in have a history of running at all?

Check your tranny ground and all the others..

let us know

Honda Sport

thanks for the helping out.

I'll double check my grounds tomorrow. I'm freezing my *** off and it gets dark, fast now. how many main grounds should there be and where?

The guy I bought it from said it was running but would ocasionally smoke when you hit WOT. he said he passed emissions with the motor.

I tried cranking it again and it sounds like it wants to turn over but won't. I'm still at a loss...

Honda Sport

double checked my grounds, looks good. what else should I check?

hondaeg8

you need to have the map sensor connected. thats why its not turning on.

Honda Sport

hooked up the MAP, ran a vaccum line from the MAP to the throttle body and hooked up the connector. still no start...dang, starting to get frustrating!!...any more suggestions?

senpai

car will start with map unhooked - run like ****, but will start

Honda Sport

that's what I was thinking, but I still hooked it up and still doesn't want to turn over. ****, pissin me off...any more suggestions?

klungemonger

Sure you got the plug wires in the right order after changing the cap/rotor?

Honda Sport

yup, correct firing order. double checked with Helms. any more?? thanks for the suggestions so far.

Honda Sport

new dilemma. so I try push starting it earlier. no good. anyways, I push the car in, try to start it again, now it sounds like the starter is screwed. when I try to start it, the starter just sounds like it's spinning and not catching the flywheel. just spins and spins. ****...so anyways, I put on the old CX starter. when I go to crank it, the motor sounds like it's really struggling to crank now. man, so what do you guys think? bad motor? ****...

Apocolipse269

im gonna go w/ gas. Year old gass breaks down and dosnt work so well. Try draining the tank, taking out your spark plugs for a night to drain the cylinders, and fill 'er up w/ about 2-3 gal's, then see what happens

Honda Sport

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Apocolipse269 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">im gonna go w/ gas. Year old gass breaks down and dosnt work so well. Try draining the tank, taking out your spark plugs for a night to drain the cylinders, and fill 'er up w/ about 2-3 gal's, then see what happens</TD></TR></TABLE>

will try that tomorrow. how would I go about completely draining the tank? is there a drain plug on the gas tank?

just a side note, before the starter went bad, when I cranked it, it sounded fine, just didn't wanna turn over. now, the motor sounds like it wants to seize.

Bakeoff

sounds like the timing belt skipped a tooth or 3.
other than that what ecu are you running? the p05 from the cx or the p06 from the b7?

Honda Sport

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Bakeoff &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">sounds like the timing belt skipped a tooth or 3.
other than that what ecu are you running? the p05 from the cx or the p06 from the b7?</TD></TR></TABLE>

p05 from the CX. how would I check the cam timing?