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Hi everyone,

I have been member of this forum for a while now, but have only recently (6 months) had a R33 Skyline. I had a lot of issues with spark after I got it, so I went down the path of putting 6 Bosch Coils on a mounting plate, and ran 6 high quality bosch spark plug leads to each spark plug. I made up the loom and checked it time and time again. When I stated the car for the first time after this mod, it ran and idled fine, I didn't rev it because it was late at night. The next morning I started it up and it was running with a slight miss. Then I drove it about 1km and it stopped, and won't start again.

When I try and start it winds over three or four times then it gives a kinda kick, like it is firing out of order.

I have checked the loom I made it is wires into the module plug in the order of 1 5 3 6 2 4 now this is the same as the firing order so I am assume I have this correct. All of the coils are putting out spark, all the leads are on the right way. I have checked everything and double checked and can't find anything wrong. I even moved the crank angle sensor back and forwards to see if it would make a difference.

What I am considering is that I am thinking it is something I have done wrong, but it might not be. Possibly an Air Flow Meter has died or a fuel pump.

I am booked into to do a track day in the Skyline on March 28th at Eastern Creek, so I am desperate to sort it out before then. If it was my good old Falcon race car I would fix it in a flash, but the Skyline is a whole new world to me at the moment.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Adam

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Have you checked to see if your getting fuel? (just pull a hose off, into a bucket and turn the key).

Easy way to test the fuel pump is at least working for a start

AFM, could be. Hard to tell from that. It should at least crank over with a dead AFM, mine was.

Why you'd change the coil/coil setu[ though is :)

This may sound silly, but check your intercooler piping, my hose came off once, and it puzzled me for days... The car was still a little drivable, only because the hose was still partly connected to the pipe.

Worth while checking.

I have checked all the hoses, and checked the fuel as well. One of the members PM'd me with a suggestion it could be that the stock ECU can not handle the coils. I have a mate who does a lot of dyno tuning investigating an ECU. Any suggestions? Haltech, Wolf?

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