'92 Hatch with B16A2.
AEM CAI
2.25" exhaust from header back
Kenji Chipped P28 ECU

After entering the freeway late last night, my car started this really awful bubbling sound. Kind of sounds like a WRX/STi that has exhaust. I took some video of it, but the video is 27MB and I only have 56k.

When at a stop it idles really rough and almost seem like it's going to die.

 

Sounds like a dead cyl. Is it running rough?

edit: nevermind I just read it all.

Sounds like a dead cylinder.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by B20 EJ6 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Sounds like a dead cyl. Is it running rough?</TD></TR></TABLE>

Sure is. Any way I can do some kind of test here at home?

 

Pop the hood while the car is running, unplug one wire at a time.(plug it back in before you pull another). Do this until you do not notice a difference in it running. The one that you pull that does not make it run worse is the dead cyl.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by B20 EJ6 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Pop the hood while the car is running, unplug one wire at a time.(plug it back in before you pull another). Do this until you do not notice a difference in it running. The one that you pull that does not make it run worse is the dead cyl.</TD></TR></TABLE> Yep Thats the way to go.

 

Well, uhh, I found the problem. .

My dad just happend to have a compression checker. So I got everything set up, hooked up an air compressor to blow all the **** out away from the spark plugs so nothing would fall into the cylinder.

Popped my hood.....and one of my wires was disconnected from the distributor ! again ! Not sure how it happend... But everything runs better now.

 

Awesome! glad you got it fixed.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by onefast93sol &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Awesome! glad you got it fixed. </TD></TR></TABLE>

Me too ! No car = No job !

 

lol this happend to me once, but one of my spark plugs was loose.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by B20 EJ6 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Pop the hood while the car is running, unplug one wire at a time.(plug it back in before you pull another). Do this until you do not notice a difference in it running. The one that you pull that does not make it run worse is the dead cyl.</TD></TR></TABLE>

just to be sure because i too want to test this on my motor. when i pull each plug the motor should want to die correct? AND the ones that doesn't sound like its dieing is the bad cylinder? is this right or did i get it backwards.