chazten

Hello there zilvia members, i have a concern that doesnt seem to plague many of us sr20 owners(believe me ive searched). My car has ran and drove fine up to this point.

I left the windows down on the car yesterday and while i was gone the random florida rain decided to piss all over my car and when i got back i only expected a wet seat and some puddles. I start it up and it idles fine, no hiccups or misses.

Then im cruising down the street and i get to the big street where i can get out of first, i give it throttle, first stumbled once it got to about 3500rpm then i shifted to 2nd not thinking anything of it and then it started sputtering like crazy with anymore than 1/4 throttle and was spitting out black smoke. did this in every gear and wont rev past 4k AT ALL.

So obviously something got a little too wet. What i almost always read about when i was searching this was a wet distributor, obviously we dont have these so its gotta either be a spark plug, coil pack, some ground, or some plug/subharness piece. but what confuses me is that i drive my car in the rain all the time so i doubt the rain got up under my cars hood and ruined something.

i checked and dried the ground on the passenger side above the ecu, its fine. anywhere else in the car i should be checking?

Also if you have any more ideas let me know, i didnt see any cracks or naked wires that couldve tooken on some water, so im kind of stuck in my search right now.

Could the maf have gotten wet and fried? its been a day and been dry for a while now, still tjhe same problem

dallasc

boost leak check your intercooler piping

chazten

Hahaha are you trolling me or did you not read it? I'm pretty much 100% sure it's an electrical problem yo

anti tyler

I'm trolling you...

I have a suspicious feeling that this has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the windows being down... I've done this many times. I actually have no A/C and sometimes have to drive with the windows down a little.


I would be doing the simple things like checking every fuse/relay. Also do the voltage test on the MAF and make sure something didn't ground out in water.

I really don't think that your problem has anything to do with the rain... I just think something happened to crap out at the most convenient time.

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chazten

What?

You think it's a coincidence the first time I ever left my windows down while it was parked in a downpour is also the first time it ever has a funny electrical problem? Haaa but yeah I plan on checking the normal things tomorrow, I was just wondering if anyone else has made this mistake

jr_ss

Do you have an interior? What I mean is, is there a kick panel covering the ECU?

4k seems like a MAF issue to me. Find someone you can test it with. I think it's a coincidence as well.

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chazten

Wellllll damnit I'll stand corrected, this guy was right, coincidentally a coupler had popped off, idk when, before I parked or after but it was off! Runs smooth now. Buuuuuuut there's a new idle issue that was never present before? It revs fine but the idle is super jumpy,

I'm going to go get a new spark plug socket later cuz I lost my old one, but could this new idle issue be fouled plugs? Yesterday I babied the car down the street with the big boost leak cuz I hadn't realized yet and the issue started about when I get to my shop, could the super rich and sputtery conditions have wetted up my plugs?

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