well i recently did a d16z6 swap on my ef with a si tranny drove it fine for a couple of days until one day while driving home it made a poof sound and it turned off and now it doesnt want to turn on and for some reason my check engine or brake light on the dash do not come on by the way im using a obd0-obd1 conversion harness runnin on a stock harness just converted to multipoint

 

i already tried a good known distributor and checked to see if my timing belt had snapped both are good so dont know what to do now

 

Run a compression test thats were I would start then I fuel pressure test fuel pump could of went out you sound like you already checked the spark those are the first things. What ECU are you using? what else have you checked so far and any other symptoms?

 

well im using a p28 i know the engine is getting fuel cause i smell the fuel

 

i would like know how to read and see if i have any codes but idk how to do it with the obd1 conversion

 

you have to put a wire or something like in the fuse box under the hood so your dash or ecu will blink can't remember which fuses you connect but I will try to

 

ok its the plug on the right the "medium size" plug


if your ground this wire the check engine light will blink the code so just set it to a switch i do believe

 

^ get the codes and post them up

 

well i got my car started but i have to press the gas to keep it alive and it makes a weird rattle sound coming from the engine and when i let go off the gas it dies? any suggestion the engine has oil could a loose flywheel ,clutch and pressure plate cause it to do this?

 

is it a knock sound? sounds like you put a hole in the front of your block to me.

 

there is no hole i checked its not a thrown rod cause i would have seen the oil but i just checked compression and cylinder 3 has no compression and has no movement what so ever

 

chances are, if cylinder 3 isn't moving, you blew the motor. check the back of the block of a hole. or you snapped the connecting rod, and managed not to put a hole in the block.

 

my first reaction when the car died was hopefully no thrown rod so i already all over to make sure the engine has no hole in it and it doesnt so it is possible that the connecting rod snapped and ended up not throwing a rod and making a hole in my engine

 

so my question now is if it the connecting rod that snapped and if i take the engine off came i just get away with a simple fix of replacing that piston and rod ? or would i have to send it to a machine shop and get all types of work done to it

 

i would guess that if the connecting rod let go, you have internal damage to the motor. you're better off finding another bottom end.

 

really hmmm i guess i might as well take the engine out and figure out how badly damaged its inside

 

that sounds about right that you had a connecting rod go up....