HHHEEELLLPPP!!!

[RhodeStiva]

The wire runs straight thought to a connector then to a relay it looks like I might of burnt the relay up. I will test it out tomorrow. But the wire insulation completely melted that one entire wire

[RhodeStiva]

it doesn't plug to starter that is a mount to mount it and i think the wire that burnt was a ground and the engine vibration made it touch the starter wire you know the rest. initially i was trying to get the right firing order like i discuss earlier then hooking the right order up and trying to crank the engine shakes, wires touches starter, lots of smoke, had to pull positive off battery to stop smoking. the wire seem to only effect a couple of things that why i think it burnt up that relay. i'll test it later and find out but i will rerun wire then try again. i hope that was the only thing. this car is becoming more of a pain than any thing.

[RhodeStiva]

where is the relay for the instrument cluster?

[RhodeStiva]

YAH!
Got the cluster back to life. Now all i have to do is fix the firing order. Back to square 1

[RhodeStiva]

OK, finally got the car running in the right firing order. Now the idle fluctuates and will hang a little in a high idle and the engine gets hot real fast. tried to drive it a little but it is acting real funny. any advice?

[denguy]

Based on you saying "heats up real quick":
Cool it down, take off radiator cap, start and warm up until thermostat opens,check for bubbles in the rad coolent, if so could be blown head gasket.

[RhodeStiva]

The head gasket is good. I was driving it fine before just wrong firing order now it's fine it just has real high idle.

[RhodeStiva]

The head gasket is good. I was driving it fine before just wrong firing order now it's fine it just has real high idle.

[RhodeStiva]

Yeah the car is finally ready for the road. the only thing now is the throttle is sticking some wd-40 should fix it right up. thanks everyone for the help.

[RhodeStiva]

by the way

The firing order is not changeable!

by the way you can have the wrong firing order. you simply rotate the rotor button and it fixes it.

[pyrothehitman]

do a compression test,

this^^^ you might have a multiple misfire code...try running the codes also.

[Movin]

The festiva uses binary codes

[RhodeStiva]

1011100010101100100010110100

[RhodeStiva]

so it has been running good for a week now. the only problems is at idle the rpm's goes up and down and up and down.... i think it might be the iacv but it's weird because before all this it didn't do that but it takes off fine it drives fine when i come to a stop it starts the fluctuation of the idle, i can reach down with my foot and pull the gas pedal toward me and it idlesfine no fluctuation . WEIRD!!!

[Movin]

Lifting on the pedal should have no effect. Do you have something sticky holding
the throttle open ? There should be a little slack out at the throttle body.

The idle jumping is normal when the tps shows idle position and the idle is
to high. The computer thinks you are decelerating, this logic does not use
vehicle speed, only RPM , TPS , brake and clutch.