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Please help fast!!!! Car wont start!!!!

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Turbo Monk3y

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Oct 14, 2002
Orlando, Florida
Well i was driving normally and i gave it some gas in 2nd gear went up to 5000 rpms and then let off the gas. Now my rpms came down as normal but instead of stopping at 750 rpm idle speed it just went to 0 and the car died while i was going about 35mph. I had my lights on and my stereo is still blasting away but my car wont start. I pushed it to the side of the road and checked my fuel pump and sure enough it works due to everytime i try and start the car my fuel pressure gauge goes back up to 40 psi. Then i checked all the fuses 5 times over and none of them are shot. The car cranks over and over and over but does not start. i even checked my timing belt and its fine as well. Then i pulled out one spark plug wire and started the car and my friends told me they did not see any spark at all. I checked all the wires and none of them spark. So i checked all the connections to the coil and they are all plugged in. So now WTF am i sposed to do now i have no idea whats wrong or How to get coils to start sparking again. please help my car is sitting across town and im worried :(
 
yes but how could i have been driving fine and then 1 second later the coils dont work???? yeah i think thats the same odds as winning the lottery its got to be something else. Also everything else works the fuel pump lights ac, power windows EVERYTHING. so how could the ecu just decide to cut out my spark if it was going bad?????
 
I think it might be your coil pack. If you dont' have any sparks then it could be it. Take them off and test it to see if they're okay or see if they're burnt. They either work or they don't.
 
where is the mpi fuse??? Also the power transistor is behind the coil packs right???
 
myne is a 2nd gen it does not have 3 off the positive end only 1gs have that any other ideas where myne would be ??
 
hey thanks for your help anyways me and a buddy of myne tested the primary power of the coils and got 10-11 volts then we tried to get spark but couldnt which now we have found the problem to be my coil is dead or shot... And he said 1g coils can be used on my car it just will bolt up different does anybody know of this is true ???????
 
Not sure about the 1G coil thing, but try this procedure just to be sure, its the one mitsu techs use (I scanned it out of a service manual)

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UPDATE!!!!!! NO luck at all ive changed the Power transistor to 93 tsi awd and the coils to a 93 tsi awd. Tried starting again and i get nothing but cranking over and over and over... Absolutely no spark at all, the problem has not changed. my ecu doesnt smell like fish so i dont think thats it... Im running out of options and i need spark !!!!! please help ...!!1 :cry:
 
SpeedFreak03 said:
Not sure about the 1G coil thing, but try this procedure just to be sure, its the one mitsu techs use (I scanned it out of a service manual)
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I may need it too to help me out with my car-Thanks for the scan!
 
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