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Old Mar 12, 2010 | 07:05 PM
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My car has been running good since i bought it and right now(10mins ago) It started vibrating and my SES light started flashing! I have never seen it flash before. I read the code with my obd2 code reader and its saying P0300 Random Misfire Detected. What the **** does this mean? i am ****** pissed as the car has been running perfectly...The plugs are new and so are the dam msd wires. Could it be a sensor that went out? Car has headers EGR and AIR was removed and the o2 sensors in the back were replaced by o2 simulators. The front sensors are plugged in to the headers...Please help me...
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Old Mar 12, 2010 | 07:39 PM
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Just went to autozone and they told me it could be my crankshaft positioning sensor and the funny thing is on the drive to autozone the car started running fine and as soon as i came home put in park the car started vibrating alot and my obd2 reader picked up a
P0307 Cylinder 7 Misfire Detected. What do you guys think it is?? please help me as this is my daily driver car!
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Old Mar 12, 2010 | 07:56 PM
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hi, could be the plug or plug wire and possibly the coil. check the plug and plug wire and if that don't fix it switch the coil to another cylinder and run it and see if the random misfire moves to that cylinder. if it does bad coil. start with the plug and wires first. i had a bad plug after my header install and it did the same thing.
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Originally Posted by MIKEY'S 2002 TA
hi, could be the plug or plug wire and possibly the coil. check the plug and plug wire and if that don't fix it switch the coil to another cylinder and run it and see if the random misfire moves to that cylinder. if it does bad coil. start with the plug and wires first. i had a bad plug after my header install and it did the same thing.
Ok ill try that thanks man. I was checking all the sensors and i found one thats kinda broken. its right by the first injector on the drivers side. its really loose and barly pluged in im wondering if thats the problem it looks like the sensor is going into the block so im assuming a crank or cam sensor??? Can someone post the diagram of the firing order on an LS1 or where can i find one?
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I cant recall the firing order, but if your wondering which coil is #7 it's the last one on the drivers side. 1,3,5,7 driver's side and 2,4,6,8 on passenger side. And to add a comment, it's prolly gonna be your coils. I have a 98 with a 109k and had to replace all of mine last year. Number 7 went first then #2, then it seemed one every week. Theyre like headlights. When one fails the others arent far behind. I think they were $102 a pair at O'Reilly's. After my second pair they started giving me a discount on them lol.
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The sensor you mentioned sounds like the temp sensor.
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I cant recall the firing order, but if your wondering which coil is #7 it's the last one on the drivers side. 1,3,5,7 driver's side and 2,4,6,8 on passenger side. And to add a comment, it's prolly gonna be your coils. I have a 98 with a 109k and had to replace all of mine last year. Number 7 went first then #2, then it seemed one every week. Theyre like headlights. When one fails the others arent far behind. I think they were $102 a pair at O'Reilly's. After my second pair they started giving me a discount on them lol.
Yep my reader picked up p0357(Coil #7) failing. Looks like i know where my money is going this weekend ...and thats exactly what the old guy at autozone said he told me to replace all of them because once one goes out there isnt very long until the rest join it. And its funny because i had a guy do my plugs and wires last year because i didnt have time to and i got thos MSD wires that have the little tags on them with the cylinder number and he put 2,4,6,8 on the drivers side and 1,3,5,7 on passenger side. Im sure you probobly know more than the guy that did mine so im taking your word lol...Thanks man.
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Does anybody know where i can find the Coil pack wiring harness that goes from the coil to the computer?
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have you driven the car in the rain lately. . .? J/W
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Old Mar 15, 2010 | 09:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Mong00z
have you driven the car in the rain lately. . .? J/W
Actually yes it rained all last week. What does the rain have to do with the misfire?
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Well my car started running normal again...it was still misfiring today so i went to autozone to see if they had the #7 coil. They didnt so i decided to go to advance auto parts on my way there i stopped at the gas station to refill since i was low on fuel. Filled up and drove to advance. Car was still misfiring at this point. I got to AAP's and shut off the car and went inside to see if they had coils in stock. They didnt so i said thanks and left got into my car started it up and what happens??...My car was running normal no more misfire it was idling smooth like it used to no vibrating. So i pulled out my OBDII reader and did a scan...and i got the same code as before which is the EGR message because i removed it when i stalled my headers. No more misfire codes and car ran good all day today. Very weird.....
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Old Mar 15, 2010 | 09:39 PM
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Water got in your opti. You got to be carefull of what lurks under the car when you drive in puddles.
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Old Mar 15, 2010 | 11:04 PM
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If you just changed your wires that exact same thing happend to me turn off all the lights in the garage and see if you see an arch trust me you most likely will if it comes back. When i changed the plugs i drove out from cali and everything worked fine i went through really thick fog and light started to flash and as soon as a came out of it everything was fine two days later came on again and looked under the hood and saw it arching off of the headers on the passanger side. I would try that before you change the opti its not likely that the opti got wet but the moister in the air and an exposed wire will make it do that but yes be careful when driving in the rain because of the opti.

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Water got in your opti. You got to be carefull of what lurks under the car when you drive in puddles.
Sorry if this question is retartded but what the hell is an Opti? Is it something to do with my EGR removal.?? I know the guy that helped me left a few wires just hangin around in the engine bay but nothing really hangs low to the ground except my O2 extension.
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Old Mar 17, 2010 | 12:08 AM
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Your opti is your distributor it is located underneath the water pump
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Old Mar 17, 2010 | 12:37 AM
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Wow i didnt know that...Y would GM locate that **** down there???? So is that where the coils connect?
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Old Mar 17, 2010 | 01:13 AM
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I thought ls1's don't have optisparks? Isn't it just for the lt1?
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Old Mar 17, 2010 | 01:29 AM
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Optis's were on LT1's NOT LS1's so with a 2000 you don't have one. Also PO300 can also be caused by vacuum leak.Here is a very informitive link about ruff running,check it out:

http://www.aa1car.com/random-misfire/
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Old Mar 17, 2010 | 10:55 AM
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Originally Posted by stburgpete
Water got in your opti. You got to be carefull of what lurks under the car when you drive in puddles.
opps my bad. I'll have to look at sig next time
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Old Mar 18, 2010 | 12:52 PM
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haha me too
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