if this **** keeps happening my hatch is going off a cliff...wtf my car can idle all day, blast down the interstate at 7k rpms all day but my car cannot stop without dying, no matter how hard im hitting the brakes, whether i hvae the lights on or not, no matter how many new parts i put into it INCLUDING : map sensor, o2 sensor, dizzy, spark plugs, wires, iacv, fitv, fuel pump, adjustable fuel pressure regulator, vaccuum lines, coolant flush, oil change, mess with the timing, WHAT THE !#$# is wrong with this piece of ****? check this **** out, my car was running fine for a few days, starts dying again i put new spark plugs in it and i get like 5 check engine codes? wtf?

 

shatty alternator??

 

bought a new one from honda about year ago

 

and you've checked to make sure its not grounding out on something when you're braking?

 

where exactly would this happen? and y would it start 3 months ago when its ran fine all summer and winter before that without me touching it?

 

when my stock mounts went bad whenever i would brake the motor would shift forward and the intake would touch the battery terminals and cause the car to die.

 

lol that better not be the problem...if it is...somethings gettin blown up
brb im gonna go move everything possible and go drive it

 

do you have an aftermarket intake?? if so check for small burn marks on the tube.

 

yeah...its a short ram tho...and its a b18 swap so the motor mounts should be good, i jus drove it and it died again

 

99.9% of the time it's that one simple stupid thing that your overlooking....something sounds like it is shorting out, are all your other interior lights dying at the same time as the actual engine kill?

Brain

 

well yeah...the cars not running...so there fore the alternator stops making everything else powered so my headlights/cluster dim and my volt gauge reads about 11 when that happens

 

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im beginning to think the fuel pumps bad...i fill up the car and it runs good until my gauge reads about half and then it starts again

 

Sounds like it might be a loose ground wire. I would check those first. Loose grounds can cause all kind of wierd problems.

 

all my grounds seem fine to me

 

grounds are good...and i filled up the tank and it runs good until it got to about half and then it started quiting again...also about 15 seconds after the car is fully warm i get a lot of engine codes...1,3,4,5,7 i believe...sometin like that...and that happend after i put new spark plugs in and fixed the coolant leak lol

 

Buddy, your wiring is shot. If you fix everything except the wiring, and it runs like ****, then that's the problem. Fix it. My prelue used to just die when I was driving around. Everything would die. What was the problem? Bad grounds in the alarm. Rats love EF wiring.

 

how am i gonna rewire my whole car?

 

I ******* hate wiring...

 

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you dont have to rewire the whole thing just check for continuity* on the wires and fix the bad ones

 

any1 else feel this is my problem? wiring is shot? if so? how would i go about doing all this?

 

where should i start looking? near the ecu or jus randomly in the engine compartment?


Modified by efyou at 9:34 PM 2/6/2006

 

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i would have started by checking the main grounding points for the engine, replace them if they look abit funny. test them as well, if you have the instruments for it.

Start with the basics, then work your way up the ladder. I would also have checked the stereo wiring for any loose wiring.