Hey guys, so my turbo GSR was running the best it ever had about 3-4 weeks ago. I noticed the rear motor mount bolt had popped out, so I tightened it up.
In the process I broke off a fitting in my FPR, specifically my vacuum fitting in my AEM adjustable fuel pressure regulator. I removed the FPR and brought it to a machine shop to have the fitting removed. I marked the adjustable part of the FPR so I 100% know that it has not been adjusted to a different setting when they were removing the broken fitting (it took them not even 2 mins to remove it, so I know they didnt monkey around with it).
I replaced the broken fitting with the correct fitting from AEM and in the process of reinstalling I lost the O-ring to the FPR in my engine bay. I did a small amount of bay detailing while looking for that O-ring, never found it and replaced that with the correct O ring from AEM.... Now the car wont start...
Symptoms
-At first, cranked everytime
-Seemed like it wasn't "catching"
-At first, I would be able to sometimes get it to "catch" and run (only by gassing it to keep it from dying, and it would run reallllyyyyy rough, the moment I let off the gas it would die)
-When started good amount of white smoke from exhaust and some from engine bay
-Now, the car cranks about 50% of the time and it wont "catch" at all....
-No constant CEL's, but will occasionally flash a CEL at me while in the process of trying to crank (especially if its really struggling to crank)
-When trying to repeatedly crank im getting a small amount of white smoke from the bay
What I've looked into
Checked all sensors
Checked firing order (dizzy wires)
No fuel, vacuum, coolant or oil leaks
Checked fuel pressure seems normal ~50-60PSI and I can hear the fuel pump turning on
Double checked all connections on the fuel pressure regulator, adjustment was not touched
Checked/refilled tranny fluid (just in case)
Checked battery terminals
Tried to look into it with SManager. Doesn't look like im recording any error codes..
So im getting fuel pressure, so I can rule that out of the equation, I think it may be something related to ignition/spark. Maybe my dizzy? I'm really hoping that I didn't get a metal shaving in my engine from all the FPR monkey business.. I did run water through it, hit it with brake cleaner and let it dry out though..
I retraced my steps and couldn't find anything at all that would cause this. I'm losing my marbles over this one... Please help me out T-I!
In the process I broke off a fitting in my FPR, specifically my vacuum fitting in my AEM adjustable fuel pressure regulator. I removed the FPR and brought it to a machine shop to have the fitting removed. I marked the adjustable part of the FPR so I 100% know that it has not been adjusted to a different setting when they were removing the broken fitting (it took them not even 2 mins to remove it, so I know they didnt monkey around with it).
I replaced the broken fitting with the correct fitting from AEM and in the process of reinstalling I lost the O-ring to the FPR in my engine bay. I did a small amount of bay detailing while looking for that O-ring, never found it and replaced that with the correct O ring from AEM.... Now the car wont start...
Symptoms
-At first, cranked everytime
-Seemed like it wasn't "catching"
-At first, I would be able to sometimes get it to "catch" and run (only by gassing it to keep it from dying, and it would run reallllyyyyy rough, the moment I let off the gas it would die)
-When started good amount of white smoke from exhaust and some from engine bay
-Now, the car cranks about 50% of the time and it wont "catch" at all....
-No constant CEL's, but will occasionally flash a CEL at me while in the process of trying to crank (especially if its really struggling to crank)
-When trying to repeatedly crank im getting a small amount of white smoke from the bay
What I've looked into
Checked all sensors
Checked firing order (dizzy wires)
No fuel, vacuum, coolant or oil leaks
Checked fuel pressure seems normal ~50-60PSI and I can hear the fuel pump turning on
Double checked all connections on the fuel pressure regulator, adjustment was not touched
Checked/refilled tranny fluid (just in case)
Checked battery terminals
Tried to look into it with SManager. Doesn't look like im recording any error codes..
So im getting fuel pressure, so I can rule that out of the equation, I think it may be something related to ignition/spark. Maybe my dizzy? I'm really hoping that I didn't get a metal shaving in my engine from all the FPR monkey business.. I did run water through it, hit it with brake cleaner and let it dry out though..
I retraced my steps and couldn't find anything at all that would cause this. I'm losing my marbles over this one... Please help me out T-I!