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Here's the story:
I was at a stop sign making a left hand turn. I was just about finnished the turn when I felt the engine just lose power totally. After a second or so of stumbling, it died.
I tried starting it again and it wouldn't run unless I gave it some gas, but it would only last about 2 seconds before it would die again. The car was also backfiring and just running really rough.
So my genius idea was to start it, then floor the engine. It revved nicely to about 4000rpm then BOOM it made the bigest backfire ever. Turns out I blew up my brandnew muffler, blew the weld right apart and left a nice black mark on the pavement.
So I have it sitting in the parking lot at my work, I've checked the t-belt, and it's all put on correctly and perfectly lined up. The fuel pump primes and after letting it crank over, you can smell fuel pretty well. I took the distributorcap off and all seems correct. So I'm stumped, why isn't it running?
'90 D15B2, if that helps, and there's no CELs.
My next guess was to find a known-working distributor and see if that solves anything.
I was at a stop sign making a left hand turn. I was just about finnished the turn when I felt the engine just lose power totally. After a second or so of stumbling, it died.
I tried starting it again and it wouldn't run unless I gave it some gas, but it would only last about 2 seconds before it would die again. The car was also backfiring and just running really rough.
So my genius idea was to start it, then floor the engine. It revved nicely to about 4000rpm then BOOM it made the bigest backfire ever. Turns out I blew up my brandnew muffler, blew the weld right apart and left a nice black mark on the pavement.
So I have it sitting in the parking lot at my work, I've checked the t-belt, and it's all put on correctly and perfectly lined up. The fuel pump primes and after letting it crank over, you can smell fuel pretty well. I took the distributorcap off and all seems correct. So I'm stumped, why isn't it running?
'90 D15B2, if that helps, and there's no CELs.
My next guess was to find a known-working distributor and see if that solves anything.