I was putting the ECU back in and I must have grounded a wire accidentally by bolting it down...next thing I know smoke is billowing out of the dash like mad...I finally figure out what is happening, and take the ecu out fast as possible.

it's too late in the day to find out just how extensive the damage is....

Good news is....the car still starts, and idle's fine. the carpet is fine as well, just the padding is burned.

Bad news is....I'm not sure what this wire goes to yet, but it burned a lot of other wires on its way to hell.

so I guess I'll be pulling the dash this weekend.

 

oh no

 

I thought you had a WRX? Dude leaves for a few months, comes back things are all shook up!

 

Hmmm...the flaming R.

Not enough people on Honda-Tech flame you, so your car decided to pick up the slack.

 

Sorry to hear that Antonio.

I hope all is easily repaired & the smell goes away.

 

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Not enough people on Honda-Tech flame you, so your car decided to pick up the slack.</TD></TR></TABLE>

lol

 

have fun with wiring and melted wires

i destroyed 2 ECU's, an ecu connector, a rear o2 sensor, and half of my harness with an electrical problem similiar to yours, complete with smoke etc

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by DragII &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I was putting the ECU back in and I must have grounded a wire accidentally by bolting it down...next thing I know smoke is billowing out of the dash like mad...I finally figure out what is happening, and take the ecu out fast as possible.

it's too late in the day to find out just how extensive the damage is....

Good news is....the car still starts, and idle's fine. the carpet is fine as well, just the padding is burned.

Bad news is....I'm not sure what this wire goes to yet, but it burned a lot of other wires on its way to hell.

so I guess I'll be pulling the dash this weekend.

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sorry to hear that.. but.... i don't understand what wire did you ground.. isn't all just harnesss plug-n-play?

 

Damn, that sucks. Glad you were able to find the problem quickly. Image if you went inside, and didn't realize it..

 

Damn, sorry to hear that. Good thing it only burned the wires and padding. That could of really been bad. Good luck

 

Damn. I thought I had it bad when installing a distribution block in the R when (after installing 2 gauge wire to battery early) touched the block to the chassis and burned the **** out of it, not the mention a loud noise and narrowly escaping a little jolt.

My story pales in comparison, but good luck on the wire surgery!

 

i know that they're just machines, but i swear, it's beginning to look like cars just don't like you antonio...

sorry to hear about your pyro mistake.
i'm sure you'll have it back to normal quickly.
it's the smell of smoke that'll linger in the interior for the next 3 years.

 

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sorry to hear that.. but.... i don't understand what wire did you ground.. isn't all just harnesss plug-n-play?</TD></TR></TABLE>

the wire wasn't part of the harness, it was separate, I ran out of daylight but it traces all the way be hind the gauge cluster somewhere. I think it will probably end up being part of the alarm or something.

 

i see.. i guess make sure everything is insulated well while in wire surgery

 

Damn bro, sorry to hear that, at least the damage was minimal, when i read the topic i was about to drive over there right now.

 

I didn't even know you had an ITR.

That sux and I hope the damage wasn't t00 extensive.

 

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That sux and I hope the damage wasn't t00 extensive.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Oh thank god I thought I was the only one!

 

damn hate to hear that, hope everything works out

 

Damn, the day was going so well too. Don't worry about it mang. We'll patch it all up on Sunday.

 

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lol....let me catch you guys up.....I sold the wrx like almost a year ago....i bought an eclipse gsx to get me by....came across a 97 itr that I picked up a few weeks ago.



everything depends on what happened behind that dash....there is such a cluster of wires there could be big damage, or hardly any damage....
find out this weekend...yay!

 

Did yuo still have the fireextinguisher in the car?

 

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haha nope...how ironic.

maybe the previous owner wasn't a ricer, and it was actually there for a purpose?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by DragII &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">haha nope...how ironic.

maybe the previous owner wasn't a ricer, and it was actually there for a purpose?</TD></TR></TABLE>

and it was mounted soooo close to the source of the fire.

 

WTF mang!

Wiring sucks. Period.

 

good luck