help: random misfire

George Roffe geo3@earthlink.net
Sun, 30 Dec 2001 00:27:59 -0600


NISMO SER wrote:

>Any advice would be greatly appreciate.

I don't know as I can help or even give good hints, but I'd guess if you're
getting such poor mileage, your ECU is getting readings from somewhere that
it thinks are bad, *or* it just isn't getting readings from someplace it
expects.  Just a WAG.

>I have 8.5mm Magnacore Wires (3 years old), will a bad wires cause
>this?  Anyone using other brands wires that's good on SR20DE?

Bad wires might.  Stick with OEM.  When researching my article for SCC, I
talked with Clark at JWT about plug wires.  There is a specific issue with
most aftermarket plug wires it seems.  Many seem to arc within the plug
wells.  This isn't something that happens all the time with aftermarket,
but it doesn't seem to happen at all with OEM.  He related a story where
someone drove from Phoenix to try to correct a problem.  After checking a
lot of things over, in frustration they threw some ratty old OEM wires from
a core engine and the guy's problems instantly went away - and he had
*brand new* performance wires.

You make the call.  And try some OEM wires when you get a chance.

George Roffe
Houston, TX
91 SE-R (well modded)
91 G20  (well modded)
84 944 SCCA ITS race car under construction
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