Summary of the last few months. . .
For starters, I should have never sent my charge/start harness off. Complete waste of time! What should have been a quick turnaround or a simple can't-do-it, burned over a month of my time. When I finally asked for it to be returned prior to leaving for my honeymoon, it was forgotten about. . I returned over a week later to no package (I called) and didn't receive it till days before DGRR! No worries, I was able to build a fairly decent looking piece with a salvageable harness from Charles' spare car.
If it's not one thing, it's another
Go EFI they said, It'll be fun the said!
The day before DGRR I couldn't get my car to start, and it was running the day before! I narrowed it down to a short in the harness at the ECU. I was able to get it to run long enough to walk over and wiggle things. As soon as I touched the harness to Haltech the car died instantly! Being extremely tired and running on fumes, I called it quits before doing something I'd regret (I used to have patience, still working on the temper issue) but decided to pull the harness before going to bed. Unfortunately my car wasn't going to make it (again) but I'm glad I pulled the harness because I saw that LMSEFI would be attending the event and I could show him my issue. Here's what I found:
The wire in question is the black wire next to purple.
Expensive paper weight removed for inspection
I get to DGRR and present this new issue to Ludwig and he was curious what the ECU looked like after seeing the discoloration. . I disassembled the ECU there and I get the news I was dreading. . The ECU is damaged
(I wish I took a picture of it, the terminals to the board burned away on the backside of the connector) No worries, he took the harness back with him to inspect further after DGRR and also sent the ECU to Haltech for repair (if they can repair).
Still waiting on word about the ECU and the harness issue is still being diagnosed. I kind of wish I never went EFI, this has been a headache since day one. . Literally! Most have great results with standalone ECU/harness upgrades. Me, not so much. . I have the "Luck of the Irish"
Anyways, that's my sob story. I just wanted to vent a little since I'm reminded if this every single day as I walk past a dusty RX7.