6 bolt swap wiring 97

[bisoo369]

Hey everyone i'll make this short. P.O did a 6 bolt swap in my 97 talon. Everything was wired correctly, car ran fine. I unplugged all the swap harnesses to clean the intake manifold, tried to plug them back in correctly, now the car doesn't get spark(?) or the cas isn't letting the car turn over or something. All i get is a bunch of clicks. so I unplugged all the wires and took pictures

First picture looks to be the rre swap harness? (I barely know what i'm talking about)

Second picture i'm holding the coil pack harness

Third picture is the 3 triangular harnesses with green pin locks or whatever those are. I believe one of those is ac which i've deleted.

Fourth pic is a zoomed out view of everything.

5th pic is this plastic piece on the coil pack. Its loose, maybe that's a problem?

I figured i get all this sorted, and if i still cant get it to run i'll move onto checking the plugs and wires and all that.

Car was running fine, then i took all that apart, unbolted the coil pack, fuel rail, injector harnesses/injectors, cleaned the intake manifold and switched to an afpr setup. The car is getting fuel. I also sprayed some soapy water here and there for a boost leak test. Forgive me but i can't understand this any better by reading through previous posts about this, or rre's write-up on their website.

 

[keveka2]

If it's clicking and not turning over it could be the small wire on the starter

 

[synthetek]

If its not turning over at all it wouldn't be any of those things. Is it not getting spark or not turning over at all?

 

[bisoo369]

Turns out I was being a bit of an overzealous noob. The battery wasn't charged enough. Right now I have the triangular plug side of the rre harness connected to one of those three green plugs, and the coil pack connector to another one of those three. The third is left off as it's an unused for AC which I don't have.

the car starts, but My problem now is some sort of weird arcing issue, is my guess. the car sounds like its ticking, or somethings making a weird ticking, electric shorting noise right around the VC, coil pack, fuel rail area. this happens randomly, and the car idled great for a few minutes and went back into making these weird noises, running lean and generally crappy. I pulled the valve cover and the head is fine.

My plan now is to change plug wires, possibly the coil pack too as I could have shorted it during my wiring endeavors, or when i was spraying soapy water to check my injector seals for boost leaks. Or maybe I have the swap wires wrong still anyway? I'll post back...

 

[keveka2]

Could be the common lifter tick if it runs fine take it for a spin and see if it clears up any