Ive had my car parked in storage over winter. I just put my new tial q blow off valve and 44mm wastegate. I took the car out and everything drove smooth. Later in the day it was missing like it was running on 2 cylinders. so i pulled over and checked to see if the plug wires had a faulty connection. I started it up and it worked fine. Again about 10 mins later it did it again and then returned back to normal. I thought maybe it was the distributor or plug wires so when i got home i changed both and it continued to miss. The car sounded like an STI and would barely drive. So next i thought it was fouled plugs. i tried some other plugs and it ran bad and cleared up and started running good.

Today i put my old "bad" spark plugs on and my old distributor and wires and its running fine.

Anyone ever have this innerminute problem with there turboed b series?????


Oh and i compression test it and everything was perfect.

 

sounds like a wiring issue to me.

 

perhaps fuel quality? fouled plugs?

sorry if i missed either of these, tired and eyes aint workin well

d

 

what wiring could it be? the car was perfect never had problems. but its been parked in my garage about two months. the gas isnt bad cuz i just filled it up so i doubt its bad gas. i thought it was fouled plugs and switched them and it ran bad then got good out of no where. so my next test was to put the old plugs in to see if it would make it run bad again and it didnt. im thinking something electrical but almost everything is new so idk where to start.

 

Here is my take. You see, your car was hibernating like a bear. While your car was in storage a bear was also in storage hibernating. During the long cold winter he would wake up in the middle of the night and slowly wrench on your car. He is actually a pretty smart bear as you can see. He posts on HT all the time, that is how he learned everything from welding to tuning. Anyhow, it was one cold night he decided to have a really cool "build" thread and post the updates all over the place. Little did you know he swaped a STI engine in it. He did mostly all the work himself because that is how bears roll, you know. He even tuned it and looked at the maps and said, this map has too much timing, this map it too rich, but this map is just right. So all you need to do is find the map he tuned that was juuust right, according to the bear.

 

lmaooooooooooooo
its past someones bedtime

 

clean your injectors

 

Nice art. lmao

 

Someone been reading too many kiddies books...lol.

To the OP, maybe something crawled in and chewed on your wires while the car was in storage. Check your wiring, grounds, fusebox, alt, etc.

 

i had a similar issue mine sounded like it was a diesel but i called around and everyone said let it warm up if the sound continues then u have an issue but once she was warm the sound went away. tends to happen on built motors down here in canada with the extreme cold but once they are warm its back to normal.

 

Lol@Art...

Well it runs fine with your old dist, just roll with that?

my dist acts wierd, plug wires keep popping off, so I hose clamped them.

 

My guess is that your valves need to be adjusted. I had that same problem and an adjustment helped alot.

 

was there any fuel stabilizer in it?

 

why would it need valve adjustment? it runs good then bad then good and bad its electronic not mechanical

 

im in seattle and its not to warm either but the car did it even when it was warm and running fine before

 

lol i havent heard of to many 1000cc injectors getting dirty with in line fuel filters. but i have thought of fuel and electrical. maybe ballast resistor for the injectors or the bosch relay is taking a crap already even though its only a few months old

 

LOL, all you want, im not the one that has the problem. like i said, clean your injectors. maybe while your at it, drop your fuel lines and filter, maybe you will find some corrosion in there.

 

get some new plugs and wires

 

then sounds like moisture in the wires or something electrical , might just need some good old drying.

 

In the frozen land of minnesota, it's usually dirty injectors that cause such issues. We have long winters and it gives the fuel plenty of time to gel up in the injectors.

 

how about this question whats the shelf life on race gas and whats shelf life of 94

 

im with davef. clean your injectors, it sounds like a injector could be dirty an intermitenly sticking.

 

gas is fresh. i just did the fuel system about two months ago and the car is in a warm garage and the injectors are almost new just had them on the car this year. what about ballast for the injectors. or anything else that wears out on integras