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Post by paguy13 on Jun 26, 2016 21:21:07 GMT -5
Hey guys, first time Derby builder and I sure need some help. I just finished stripping a 94 dodge intrepid, and I fired it up to make sure it still ran. In the process, I think I fried the engine computer. I've heard of guys bypassing/eliminating the computer systems completely by running direct power to the necessities and a switch board in car. Can anyone offer any guidance, or did I just ruin this car? Thanks, Nile.
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Post by klicky96 on Jun 26, 2016 21:23:57 GMT -5
100% impossible running fuel injection.
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Post by paguy13 on Jun 26, 2016 21:37:07 GMT -5
No way around it? And what would you suggest is the easiest way to fix this whole situation?
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Post by boom61 on Jun 27, 2016 5:34:04 GMT -5
what makes you think you fried it? jumped it backwards?
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Post by klicky96 on Jun 27, 2016 13:24:51 GMT -5
Unless you get a stand-alone injection module for it, you won't get around the pcm. No way possible.
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Post by wreckage on Jun 28, 2016 21:41:20 GMT -5
Sounds like you need to go to the junk yard and pull another computer. Go trough check all the wires you cut. Make sure you have a good ground to the computer and try hooking up the junk yard computer.
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Post by DemolitionMissions on Jun 30, 2016 14:12:39 GMT -5
Yep all modern FWD compacts will need the computer. What is your reason that the computer is fried?
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Post by Luke Wells on Jul 1, 2016 4:52:36 GMT -5
Do the guys running carbs on 3.1L still use computers?
Not trying to sound like a smart @$$, I simply don't know much about that subject.
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Post by DemolitionMissions on Jul 1, 2016 7:18:17 GMT -5
The w-bodies using carbs do not need the computers anymore once switching to carb.
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Post by taterjuice on Jul 1, 2016 13:16:32 GMT -5
Do the guys running carbs on 3.1L still use computers? Not trying to sound like a smart @$$, I simply don't know much about that subject. if carbed, one only needs the coil pack and the sensor that triggers it. Crank sensor I believe. |
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Post by paguy13 on Jul 6, 2016 14:26:36 GMT -5
Just pulled another computer, and it fired right up. The old one was shorting out in the pcm itself, pulled it apart and ran power to it to see if that was the case, and one of the diodes in the board was red hot and burning up the rubber. Long story short, old one just went bad, new one from a junkyard fixed my problem. Thanks everyone
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Post by redneckracing12 on Jul 6, 2016 21:02:43 GMT -5
Just pulled another computer, and it fired right up. The old one was shorting out in the pcm itself, pulled it apart and ran power to it to see if that was the case, and one of the diodes in the board was red hot and burning up the rubber. Long story short, old one just went bad, new one from a junkyard fixed my problem. Thanks everyone I see you are from PA, what part of PA are you from and where are you running your car at? |
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Post by paguy13 on Jul 7, 2016 10:44:08 GMT -5
I'm from Montoursville, northeastern pa. Ill be running in the lycoming county fair, over in Hughesville
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