Here's what happened, maybe you guys can point me in the right direction. Over a couple of months the problems progressed like this:

- car started and drove normally, was hard to warm start
- warm starting got worse until it wouldn't start at all until it cooled off
- car began hesitating and losing power after warming up
- finally limped home sputtering and won't start at all

Does this sound like a failing fuel pump? Or should I check something else first?

 

So you drive the car for a while than you turn it off, and it wont turn back on until you let the car cool down for about 15 min?

if so its's your Main Relay

 

I would also put my money on that relay. I hated it when it went out in my Sedan.

 

Ok, I removed the relay and resoldered the connections according to this site http://techauto.tripod.com/mainrelay.htm Now when it turns over I can smell gas, which I couldn't before so I assume the pump is now working. However, it still won't start and when I turn the key off there are 4 rapid beeps that keep repeating. Any ideas?

 

ya get a new relay. you have shorted a few of the joints inside that thing.

and check for blown fuses. if u shorted the relay u may have popped a fuse or two.

 

Please, somebody slap me upside the head. The beeping was because I had the frickin door open. I checked the ecu and there are no error codes, cranked a bit more and it fired but won't quite start. I'm hoping it's just a combination of flooding and old gas (it's been sitting since Xmas).

 

whhoooaaa where have you been not using yo honduh

 

i kinda have the same problem but my car still runs and it will warm start...but my problem iz that when i floor it my power cuts out at 4500 rpm's.....and it idles at 500rpm's then it will die when im stoped...some time....i think its the TPS...or the map ??? dose anybody have a clue???

 

have you tried replacing your Coil?

 

im gonna say chek the coil!!! same thing happened to me, and then i had it towed home, and the coil was char-broiled white and melted ad waht not

 

I finally got it running, but it ran like crap and died on the way to work . . . right in front of a tuneup place I pushed it into the parking lot and left it with them. The remaining problems are due to the car being branded as a DX on the hatch, but it's actually an Si. Whoever had the car before me thought it was a DX and had the wrong plugs and rotor in it. I don't know jack about ignition stuff so I was happy to let someone else do it.

The main relay was definitely nonfunctional though, so fixing that myself saved a few $$.

 

i have msd... and my coil is good....how much iz the new relay???

 

its going to cost alot at the dealer, you can get it at a junk yard for about 15-20 bucks.