UPDATE: Changed the spark plugs, and plug wires tonight and she fires right up with no hesitation or missing. The only problem now is it seems to have a high idle around 1500....on a cold start the idle is like 2k...tapping the gas makes the idle go down to 1000 and then it raised back to 1500 rpsms? what gives? ignition timing is perfect.


97 ek with d16b7, car broke down on me tonight, something popped and it died pretty instatnly. no cel's, would not start after it quit just would turn over and over and smoke was coming from the intake. I replaced the coil with that of a distributor king obd1 coil and the car starts up fine now but idles rough and is powerless, seems to be running on 3 cylinders maybe? throwing code 45... any thoughts on this? i'll know a bit more tomorrow in the daylight....


Modified by crexer at 10:51 PM 9/13/2006


Modified by crexer at 6:39 PM 9/14/2006

 

Check your ignitor. Code 45 is due to to much fuel and that could be caused due to the ignitor being bad.

 

Well, Code 45 usually resorts ot hte O2 sensor. But before you check any of that, check your spark plugs. And I am pretty sure you shoul have an obd2 Coil. Not sure if that has anything to so with it.

 

if you decide to get a coil i'll sell you a new one for cheap, i replaced mine thinking it was bad and found out it wasnt

 

ok im gonna throw in some new spark plugs, and try the ignitor, does anyone know for sure if the obd1 and obd2 coils are perform same? they look identical...

 

Internal components are the same throughout obd1 and 2 only difference is external and internal coil.

 

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why the high idle?