car starts idiles for a min then dies

[rollinsmoke]

to start off i own a 97 n/t ecplise with the 420a 2.0 and would really appreicate any and all help



hi there everyone new to the forms but not to the.eclipse i just got my hands on a new project that has me stumped pretty bad the car will start up and run just fine with a.little miss to it when its cold after you drive it for around 20 miles it will die and not start up it will also pop up 3-5 codes and will burn out the interior lights fuse under the hood and will not allow me to scan it. change the fuse and it will run the scan no problems other then the 3-5 codes.
also i know my coil is jumpin fire i have a new one on its way

a little back history on the car i bought it about three weeks ago with a blown head gasket i replaced the head gasket and all other gaskets that went along with it while i was in it i put a new timing belt both tensioner pulleys along with the tensioner also the water and oil pump are new something else about the car the ol boy i got it off of has hacked the wireing for the cd player i have taped all that up since he also ran some makeshift alarm system with olny half of it there and still cant figure this one out he ran a wire straight from the alternator to the ecu.


any help would be greatly appreicated also the codes its giving me are

p0122
p0403
p1390
p1296
and p1496


thanks for looking guys hopefully someone here has had this problem before and knows right where to lead me ive neen scouring the.internet trying to figure this out to no advil but who knows might get lucky oh also one last thing the.car ran fine when i got it other then it burning water and sorry for the random periods i trying type this on my phone and the period is right next to the space

FORGOTEN INFORMATION
almost forgot to add in there i have driven the car for three days after fixing it it wasnt until today it started acting i also fudged a little on the torque specs on the head the cheildton book says to torque the bolts to something like 56 the back them off torque them again to around 20ish then mark the bolts and turn them a quater turn past that i was talking to a friend of mine at the local machine shop he says according to their books you torque them to 56 lossin them off to finger tight then torque them to 32 and turn a quater turn past that so not much differance but it may be some of the probelm thought it was worth mentioning also i have ran a compression test which came back with around 150 on each cylinder so i dunno i belive its something to do with a short somewhere in my wireing but you guys may have a better outlook on the situation

 

[jay_wurts]

When you drive the car does it shake during highway driving? I had a faulty TPS on my 96 rs,i replaced it and it fixed the problem immediately. On "p0403" with the egr being faulty that could definately make your car die,it could be clogged and not flowing correctly. I would start there and the parts shouldnt set you back that bad.

 

[rollinsmoke]

well swapped my egr setup with another and drove for well over 3 hours today with no problems other then every time i hit the clutch or come to a stop it idiles really high usealy around 3-5k which if my memory is correct that would be the IAC i checked it and sure enough it'll click but wont go in and out i talked to my grandpa inlaw (50+ years exp under a hood) mainly because i wasnt sure what would make the IAC go out so randomly he told me a backfire through the throtle body could be the culpurt and with the misfire code popping up with his recomendation we did an ohms test with.my coil and sure enough he said my 3rd and 4th spot on my coil is jumping fire between them so i guess a new coil and IAC i should be good to go thanks for pointing me in the direction of the egr i dont think i wouldve ever thought of that

 

[jay_wurts]

Yeah man not a problem, I would definately change out that coil then. You might as well pick up a msd coil and ngk wireset while your under the hood.