OK looking for some suggestions on what problem may be. Got in the car this morning and it took about 3 seconds to turn over, I thought nothing of it the first time, but its been happening every time I have started the car since. Here is what has happened with my car in the last few days, uninstalled my vafc w/harness and put it back on (same settings done on dyno) , put gas in it two days ago, im wondering if I have a battery or alternator problem. Once the car is started it runs fine. Ideas? Thanks in advance

Jeremiah

 

Ok part two, the battery and alternator are fine , just had them checked at auto zone, so I bought some gas treatment (water remover) and fuel cleaner (5 bucks total) figured it was worth a shot. If anyone has ideas let me know thanks

 

Does it spin at a normal speed, then not start, Or spin slowly?

 

Its intermittent, it will catch and then die sometimes but others it will start up with only minimal (extra button holding)

 

Is the VAFC installed with a PnP harness? Or did you unplug the PCM? If so you need to re-do the Idle learn procedure. Start the car and let it run at idle with no additional loads. Untill the cooling fans cyle.

 

Yes I have a harness, ok I will do that in the morning, motor is still hot right now

 

Thanks for the help

 

got in the car this morning and it started right up, I will wait until I try again before locking the thread, thanks for the help Chris

 

Ok while going to lunch it did its intermittent thing, Stuff I have checked so far, battery (good) , alternator (good), I have even added fuel water remover and cleaner and dont think that has done crap either, anyone think it could be a sparkplug or injector problem. I am going to take the VAFC completely out and plug the ecu in and see what happens also. Thanks for all suggestions (BTW No CEL)

 

After pulling the VAFC and starting it , it did the same thing. So I start looking under the hood and found the problem this thing (in picture below) was loose, so I tightened it and it started right up



Thanks for the help everyone (will leave thread open until someone identifies that connection)