I have 38 miles on this d16z6 engine (ycp and fj-r) engine so far, and I have adjusted cam timing one tooth each direction.. but it still sounds a little off and no power in low RPMs...

my friend drove the car and was like "man it sounds like its running on 3 cylinders" so we took out the spark plug wire for cyl 1... no change in engine sound.. ran the same, with no plug wire in... hum....

plenty of spark though! and we took out the plug and it was getting gas...

its a brand new dizzy.. new plugs...used p28 ECU.. I have also changed that injector out...and switched the sparkplug with another ngk one... samething...

I also checked compression and I was getting 150 a cross the board...

so i'm getting spark, fuel, good compression.. I have no idea...

but runs pretty good for only being on three cylinders... I also have my vtec disabled (wires not connected) if i plug that in does that make the extra cylinders run, haha thats some crazy vtec yo!

I feel like i'm so close to having this engine running, yet so far.

 

I just swapped a D15B VTEC into my 2000 hatch. As soon as I fired it up, one cylinder wasn't working. It didn't make sense to me because I had just installed a brand new distributor, and new spark plugs. The only part that wasn't new were the ignition wires (I used the wires from my D16Y7, which were only 3 months old).

I put on the wire that came with the swap, and sure enough it started firing. I guess (somehow) pulling the wire out and checking for spark a couple times after I put the motor in damaged the wire, and it wasn't connecting with the plug at all.

So to make a long story short, try another wire on that cylinder.

 

ok ill try that, but I was getting lots of spark out of that wire with the plug out of the engine... thanks for the help!

 

I was, too!

But I was putting a long-handle screwdriver in the wire and somehow it mis-shaped it. So when I put the wire back in, I guess it didn't make contact with the spark plug anymore.

 

My wires are also from a d16y7 and I replaced them a year or two ago with some autolite brand or something from autozone.. I wonder if its something as easy as that... ill go home and switch some wires around and see what happens...

 

Yep it was the stupid WIRE!

crappy auto-lite wires from advanced auto!

So FYI: you can have spark from the wire and still have a bad wire.

-Stephen

 

Glad it's fixed