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bheld
07-14-2002, 05:56 PM
So anyway, I'm being a dumbass last night and trying to impress people by burning out and then taking off at a high rate of speed.  I have the tach up to about 6000-7000, and suddenly my engine stalls as I pull up to a stop sign.  I restart it, and it stalls again going around a corner.  Anyway, my idle is screwed up now.  When I start it up and let it idle, it runs up to about 1500, drops down to around 600, then coughs and dies.  It runs fine when I put some gas to it.  So I thought it might be the MAF sensor, but I'm not really sure.  I took the harness off to see what happened and it just idled really high at about 2000rpm, which is not what it did when I accidentally knocked it off while changing my plug wires.  Anyway, I'm completely stumped.  I've started to think it's the ECU or something, but I'm not sure.  Any insight is appreciated.

Thanks

Natty
07-14-2002, 10:20 PM
Shit man, that sounds really bad.
I am guessing your ECU knows you screwed something up and it is running in safe mode aka "limp your busted car home or to a shop" mode &nbsp; <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'>
As for wat you did when you overrevved it, I would guess the valves got floated.
Sorry, I don't know much. &nbsp;<img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/blush.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':blush:'>
Jeff

bheld
07-15-2002, 03:01 AM
Is there a way to reset the ECU? &nbsp;I'm pretty sure I didn't float the valves though because I didn't misshift and that's about the only way you could do it unless the rev limiter wasn't doing anything. &nbsp;Anyway, thanks for the reply.

boosteds14
07-15-2002, 08:22 AM
MAYBE someone slipped some s4 cams in your car behind your back <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/eh.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':eh:'>

sykikchimp
07-15-2002, 11:53 AM
check the Faq for how to reset your ECU. &nbsp;I would check it for any error codes first though.