Jump to content
SAU Community

Recommended Posts

Hey guys my car is missfiring from idle & all through the rev range, no smoke coming from the exhaust so no engine failure i'm hoping.

Yesterday this happened & after a couple of start ups & holding the revs at around 4000rpm the missfiring went away & it drove home fine on the highway & for around an hour. This morning when i started her up she is coughing up the same but no sign of going away this time. It is pretty much running on 4 cylinders or 5 maybe i'm no mechanic.

I thought it may have been a bad bit of fuel but no such luck it seems, i'm thinking it maybe my Splitfire coilpacks, they've been on the car for around 4years now, car was last tuned in august last year & has run great as normal until just now.

I will be taking it to my tuner hopefully this week & getting it sorted but i thought i'd ask some of you gurus & get an idea what it maybe.

These are my mods

Highflow turbo

Injectors

Coilpacks

Link ECU

Platinum Plugs

& All the usual support gear.

Thanks guys

Link to comment
https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/213628-rb25det-missfiring/
Share on other sites

take off the coil pack cover and replace all the other parts so the car will run. Carefully remove the coil pack plugs one by one and plug it back in. The one that doesn't change is the cylinder that is misfiring. Now you've done step one, you need to determine whether it's cylinder, spark or injector.

if u say there's no smoke coming from the exhaust then i'd start with the missing cylinder having no fuel. cause if it was misfiring but the injector for that cylinder was still working then it would have unburnt fuel in the exhaust and make black smoke. easiest way: determine which cylinder/s are dead check for spark condition of plug and coilpack, check for injector working by putting a screwdriver onto injector and putting your ear on it and listen for it pulsing. sometimes disconnecting the injector will make it run better but this is only if the injector is leaking too much fuel. failing that try a good old compression test

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now


  • Similar Content

  • Latest Posts

    • I can see between the water jacket and cyl 3 there wasn't a hard line of combustion gas. It certainly appears that the issue is coming from there. Yes, checked the tension. All at 100ft lbs where I set them 5 years ago. These blocks can crack but generally when they have been over bored. Mine is only 0.5mm oversize at 89.5mm. They break between cylinders around the 91mm mark. No sign of that with mine. My gut feeling is the head gasket lifted a while back when the studs stretched and i bandaided it by retorquing the studs. It's finally let go.
    • My Nismo 1.5 churps a bit on reverse turns when cold, but besides that feels like a stock diff.
    • Yes, but, I paid cash and I'm pretty sure the receipt was in the bin 10 minutes after I got home Note to self, keep all receipts
    • Bunnings would have just handed you your money back on that one!
    • So, version 4 intake is on its way I was looking at these a while ago but at around $200 or more it was a little pricey for something that might not work, but, I had it in my watch list, but, I got a message saying it was on special, and I had a code thingie to use, it eventually came in at $120 delivered, so BAM, BUY NOW.....LOL I'll need to have a look when it arrives but I feel it will "look" better than what I currently have, as it comes with a PCV fitting, so I will be able to get rid of the alloy pipe that goes to the throttle body with the PCV fitting  Well, that's what the voices in my head are telling me  Oh, and this happened today Yeap, it was a Trojan, and it was cheap, so I headed back to the hardware store and actually spent a little bit more on a heavy duty,  one that was actually recommended by a plumber mate, a Cyclone one with a fibreglass handle that is actually rated for clay The broken shovel will eventually be "modified" into a short handle shovel
×
×
  • Create New...