This is a repost.... from another area.. thanks for your time..

I recently put on an fmax turbo kit, with an rideal head gasket/spacer. I had the cylinders o-ringed, got a valve job and had some minor porting done. the car ran great execpt for some idle problems and it was not running smooth (slight hesitations) under normal driving conditions. The car ran well at WOT and had plenty of pickup. After doing a leakdown test i noticed that there was a leak in cylinder #3 into the water jacket suronding the sleves. So i took the head off and found that the problem was the o-ring on #3 didnt seal to itself and left a gap about the size of a pencil mark. i cleaned everything off and replaced the bad o-ring. This time I only put the coper layer of the gasket back on and sealed the whole thing with suzuki 1207B silicone.

When I went to fire the car back up it started perfectly, ran great for about 15 seconds and now it wont start. As far as spark goes, when i take the plugs out and ground them to something, they fire in order. The spark itself is pretty big and white. I have compression, and as far as fuel goes the plugs come out of the cylinder wet with gas. i can dump race gas right into each cylinder through the spark plug hole, and shoot it into the intake manifold and it won't fire, not even a backfire or a sputter it just cranks and cranks. It doesnt take that much to ignite race gas. one would think that if you have fuel and spark it would do somthing. right? I also checked that my rotor was phased and that the relation of the cams to the crank was good. The computer wont spit out any error codes, other than the once that i force upon it, like if i were to disconnect the map sensor or somthing like that. I am completely baffeled and really dont know what to do.

Did i mention the car was running??

A) before i redid the head gasket
B) When i first started it up after fixing the leak.

I checked and rechecked that everything was hooked up properly. It really wasnt that hard of a job and everything is put back in its proper place. the only electrical connection that i had to undo was the distributer and the 2 sensors on the head. I am going to go out and buy a new Coil and possibaly a new ICM just to be sure my spark is strong and getting through the fuel/air mixture. I really cant think of anything else that can be wrong. what am i missing? am i stupid? did i mention that the car started right up and ran before dieing?

I am writting here hoping that some of the people on here with such a great wealth of knolwedge and experience may be able to help me out, and get me running again.

Thanks a bunch!!


-Chris


1993 b18a1
tubronetics t3/t4



[Modified by maddog2200, 4:54 AM 4/8/2002]