Car not Starting
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On The Tree
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From: College Station
Car not Starting As you have prob read, I recently dyno tuned my 96 TA WS6 car after heads,cam, and shorties w/ very dissapointing numbers of 297/321. Today, i tried to start my car for the first time in 4 days. Is about 45 degrees outside, car would not turn over for several minutes. Left car came back 2 hours later, car started on 5th try, ran fine w/ no surging or weird idle, yet the SES light is still on, even after I replaced the dead O2 sensor. Still doesnt feel like the power it had after the dyno tune. Any ideas?????????Please help. Opti? Need new ignition? Has new wires/plugs.
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On The Tree
Joined: Jan 2004
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From: College Station
Car not starting As you have prob read, I recently dyno tuned my 96 TA WS6 car after heads,cam, and shorties w/ very dissapointing numbers of 297/321. Today, i tried to start my car for the first time in 4 days. Is about 45 degrees outside, car would not turn over for several minutes. Left car came back 2 hours later, car started on 5th try, ran fine w/ no surging or weird idle, yet the SES light is still on, even after I replaced the dead O2 sensor. Still doesnt feel like the power it had after the dyno tune. Any ideas?????????Please help. Opti? Need new ignition? Has new wires/plugs.
Teching In
Joined: Jan 2004
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From: SE Michigan
Best thing to do is get it on a scanner get the codes and tell us what codes you're getting. Without codes it's just a guessing game.
Also, where did you get your car dynotuned at? Do they know what they're doing? They should've known something was wrong when they seen the numbers you put down. With headers a cam and even stock heads you should be putting down much better numbers than that. What heads and cam are you running btw.
Also, where did you get your car dynotuned at? Do they know what they're doing? They should've known something was wrong when they seen the numbers you put down. With headers a cam and even stock heads you should be putting down much better numbers than that. What heads and cam are you running btw.
On The Tree
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From: Houston/ Austin, TX
Mine used to do a similar thing. I found that if i left the ignition in run for about 10 secs before i tried to start it it would fire right up. Im not sure exactly why that was, but it hasnt failed me yet.
It could be your ignition control module or maybe a faulty sensor. Id bring it to a good mechanic and have him run a scanner on your car when its running and check if you have any faulty sensors. Thats the best way to figure out what sensors are funky. SES codes are bullshit if you ask me. If you just go by those it is all a guessing game.
Good luck man
It could be your ignition control module or maybe a faulty sensor. Id bring it to a good mechanic and have him run a scanner on your car when its running and check if you have any faulty sensors. Thats the best way to figure out what sensors are funky. SES codes are bullshit if you ask me. If you just go by those it is all a guessing game.
Good luck man