Was working on the car etc today, removed the intercooler and turbo pipe. Come to start the car and it wont! Have a new symbol showing on the dash too! Look at the pic below its the left one! Whats it for, I need the car for tomorrow.

 

It means your casserole is ready!

Have you refitted the intercooler and turbo pipe?

It looks to me like a Cat'.....so maybe there's summat up with the Lambda/Cat area?

What year is the car?

 

94 wrx wagon mate. Reallly confused, it turns over etc, just wont start. It was giving off some weird evaporation type smoke out of the exhaust yesterday?

Surely the car should start without the intercooler?

 

why try to start it with the intercooler detached?

 

well to be honest, have been working on the car for some time now. So I at my house, I've just been reversing the car in and out of the garage really. Not driving! The uprated tmic was and is still proving to be hard to fit.

if it helps, i did remove the heat shield and not put it back?

 

check the earth strap to the right of the throttle body, I forgot to screw mine back on when I was messing around with mine! you would have unscrewed it when removing the TMIC

exactly the same symptons (less the casserole lamp!)

 

right update. Done a sensor code check! nothing!

I have checked the strap? its just a thick wire which followed from the negative terminal, but mine is bolted to the tranny? So I didnt need to remove it?

All I can say, something has failed. Because when I was moving the car back and forth in and out of the garage, my friend noticed loads of smoke from the exhaust! (whilst the intercooler was off)

Some one please HELP!

That damn cat light is on for some reason??

Someone confrim why this light is on?

 

nah thats the battery earth, check for a wire that bolts on below inlet manifold, its covered in shiney heatshrink stuff, ill have a hunt for a piccie to help you, might not be the correct name for it but thats what we decided it should be christened

if you drive the car without the IC on it there will be a fair bit of smoke

 

kind of around here



excuse my awful piccie

 

mate your gonna have to give me better picture. I dont remember removing anthing but the three bolts for the ic and turbo pipe. Is it possible for a picture for the exact wire your taking about?

This whole situation is bizzare lol

 

its not connected to one of the ic brackets? or icv?

 

did you remove the TMIC from the brackets or take the brackets out too? if you took the brackets off too when you removed the IC there is one bolt on the left and two on the right, under one of the right bolts there is a wire fastened underneath one of them

 

oh, bugger, this is gonna be tricky now, because I have installed brackets from 97 onwards. Lets just hope I find the wire

 

somethings wrong. The battery is fine and is powering up all electrics. But when I connect the positive terminal, there is no great current, if u know what i mean? like theres no power coming from something?

What on earth is wrong here.

I have searched all the wires, and there is non that are loose or not bolted in........

 

SOMEONE HELP ME!!!





Took the intercooler all off again checked all wiring nothing!

 

reconnected your maf?

 

yes mate. The car is turning over fine, just wont start.

 

okay, is all your intercooler reconnected and all pipework in place? if not the car wll overfuel without it and would struggle to start.

when you turn the engine over is it catching as though it is going to start or just turning?

 

no its just turning over.

 

Are the sparks firing ? take out the drivers side plug and have a look to see if it is sparking when you turn the engine over

 

an overfuelling engine will destroy a cat pretty quickly. so maybe it is cat related

 

but Surely the cAr should Start? the cAr hAs only been on At A mAx of 20Sec , gArage in and out.

 

'calling the one and only API David for help'

 

mate I cant find that wire? you got any pics?

 

The car won't start without an intercooler, well it might if you have the maf joined to the throttle body, otherwise ..it wont.

Re-connect the intercooler and maf and it will start.

If it doesn't, do a CEL test by joining the wires under the dash and see what error codes you have

Do a search for CEL and you will find out what the codes mean and exactly which wires to connect.