For the past few weeks on my spare time I've removed the turbo and just about have the car back to completly stock. I removed the body kit, sold it, shipped it, what a pain making a box for it and getting it to a shipper. Removed the comptech strut bar, sold and shipped. The real effort was the removal of all the smaller support items of the turbo that I installed over the months. I must have added a mile of wiring that had to be removed not to mention the componets they hooked to. Then to find the nuts and bolts that I dumped into one box and figure where they go, quite a puzzle, and oh, the hoses....suckage

One thing that's the "dammitt" happened yesterday while buttoning things up. I had a spare motor in my shed that I robbed for stock injectors, fuel rail and injector clips, a ja32a1 motor, same injectors and rail as ja32a2. A while back I sold my original stock injectors and modified my original fuel rail to accomodate the RC injectors. That motor had been sitting for a considerable amount of time.

So off with that intake manifold, take the parts, do a little clean, spend 100.00 on new "o" rings and seals, wait 10 days for those parts and do the install yesterday. It went together well. After spending a little time figuring out the hose connections, trust me, confusing in it's simplicity, it was time to fire it up before the finishing touches. It wouldn't start, cranking cranking and nothing. I ran through everything in my head as to the install and was a little fearful something was wrong with the ecu. I thought it through again and thought no way the ecu is bad, it worked before the stock injectors went in. It was late and gave up.

This morning I did a little trouble shooting by checking the plugs on the front part of the motor. All plugs were dry. No gas whatsoever was being injected. That brought me back to the ecu. I again thought, no way can that ecu be bad. So off with the manifold on the salvaged CL I'll be stripping, off with the injectors and fuel rail. Then off again with the manifold on the good CL and remove those injectors again. Swap out the injectors and put it all back to gether in record time. By noon the car was running smooth. The problem was the old injectors were clogged for sitting so long. What a pain in the ass..and I'm still not really finished, but the rest is a no brainer.

Next on agenda is to strip the salvaged CL down, that's coming next when my silver CL is back on the road. Now if someone would just take this turbo kit off my hands....

 

<---boo for owning an auto...
the right someones gonna do it man

 

i think i have injector issues too. all 6 brand new aren't too expensive.

 

It still amazes me when I read about pulling motors and tearing them down and building them back up. I envy you guys that have the know-with-all to do things like this. I install an intake and I feel like I'm a super hero. You put it all into perspective! That's cool you found the problem though and didn't end up getting a new ECU to find out it was the injectors the whole time. Cool stuff.

 

thanks, it just didn't make sense as I took off the emanage earlier and gave it a test drive using the stock ecu to drive the rc injectors. It worked to some extent but overall the ecu wasn't happy with the arrangement. I really did think something was wrong with the ecu or connections as not one injector was feeding fuel, that's what led me to believe something might have gone awry with the ecu. I was still pretty sure the ecu was ok, because the injectors were quite old and smelled of rotton spongy gooey dried gas. Lucky for me it was the injectors as it started right up with the others I put in. But to think all 6 were clogged... live and learn.


would one of you turds on acuarazine buy the turbo kit? And I use that term Loosely..hehe

 

How long were those injectors out for? I'm just kind of worried because I have a J32A2 that's going into my Accord but that motor has been sitting for 3 years in a garage. It wasn't subjected to heat or moisture though. Should I be worried as well? The motor has 15K on it.

 

My guess is they're clogged. This problem occurs when the gas in the injectors and rails just dry up and leave a residue inside the injector. I'd take them out and send them for cleaning, it's a fraction of the cost compared to buying new ones.

 

Im very surprised someone has not bought the kit yet. One of these ballers needs to buy it or maybe were all just ballers on budgets. Im with Farva, i feel like a super mechanic when i installed my CAI :meow:

 

rout it for an auto, set up a finance plan,