Car won't start

[davidgt97]

My car has not ran very well since I bought it. It has always had a hesitation or miss especially under boost. After many new parts including a new Kar King long block, new MHI evo 16g, header, exhaust, o2 housing, 560 injectors, walbro 255, etc.. I'm still in no better shape. Last week I tried tweeking w/ the car some more and while driving the hesitation seemed to get worse. I pulled the car in the garage and left it set. Today I went out to move the car out of the garage to do a brake job on my wife's car and it wouldn't start. I cranked for quite a while w/ no results. I have never been able to hear the fuel pump while trying to start the car but I thought I'd try hot wiring the fuel pump anyway. I hot wired the pump while I had my wife crank for about 10 sec w/ no results. Then I did a comp test just for the fun of it. I got about 155 across all 4. Then I pulled every plug and grounded it to a valve cover bolt to ensure every plug was firing and they were. Now what?

 

[davidgt97]

Today I went out and did something I know I shouldn't do but oh well. I pulled the throttle body hose and sprayed a little starting fluid in. The car fired right up and I quickly tried to give it some gas but it only ran for about 3 sec. and then it died and refused to start back. I'm guessing this means I'm getting no fuel. Any ideas?

 

[tbonitz301]

Maybe your pump was failing. Causing you to run lean and get some timing pulled. Sounds like a bad pump. Do you have a logging device?

 

[cavillac]

umm.. does jumping a failed component make it work?

you could've seen if the pump had power with a 2$ DVOM.

Or you should've T'd in a FP guage to see if you are getting pressure.

 

[davidgt97]

I pulled the line from the fuel rail and put it in a glass jar. I had my wife crank the motor for about 10 sec........ nothing. I guess next I'll check to see the pump is getting juice. I think I might be a little pissed if my brand new walbro 255 has already died, but as I mentioned before I have hot wired it and could hear it pump. I just thought of something as I was typing. I wonder if my fuel guage isn't working and my dumb ass is out of gas.

 

[spyderman1997]

please let us know if thats the case so we can laugh with you

 

[davidgt97]

Well it's official, I'm the king jackass. My car runs better w/ gas and my fuel guage isn't working. Thanks guys.

 

[tbonitz301]

Dont worry we've all been there at some point or another. Glad you figured it out