I have an 06 Speed6 that I just performed a GT2871R upgrade on. The car has all the supporting mods necessary. I have a CP-E high pressure pump, Sure 3" Aeros intake with 4" inlet, CP-E injector seals and top mount intercooler, and AWR engine mounts. I just did an oil change and topped off the antifreeze. It has been dataloged and is in process of being road tested.
My current issue is the car is consistently blowing Engine Ignition fuse 1 located in the driver side fuse box inside the vehicle. I believe this is due to a grounding error on my part, (I attempted to make a temporary battery tie down by rigging up some metal braces from the stock tie down to an unused Bolt on the fuel pump housing bracket, in retrospect this was an absolutely terrible idea, as it was most likely grounding out the motor). I removed the offending item, but now the issue is even more persistent. It has even evolved to effecting the coil pack closest to the fuel pump bracket. After replacing the blown fuse, I turned over the motor, it fires right up, but coil pack #4 begins to emit a white smoke and the plastic on the underside begins to melt.
I swapped the malfunctioning pack to cylinder 1 in attempts to identify whether the wiring is bad. The problem followed this particular pack. Upon further inspection the pack was found to be extremely hot, while none of the others emitted much, if any heat. The car would idle roughly (still ironing out the tune) and then blow the Engine Ignition #1 fuse again.
No other fuses were blown, and it seems to be after about 20-30 seconds of idling.
I'm going to try to replace the damaged coil pack and see if that solves the issue. But I'm concerned that's not the only problem. We checked over our grounds and all sensors multiple times before reassembling the car, and found nothing out of place (save my stupid metallic battery tie down).
I had suspected the AWR passenger side mount of being the culprit as the location of the ground is different than the stock mount. Where the stock mount had a ground posted on the engine side of the mount, this AWR mount relocates the ground to the frame side of the mount, which I immediately found very odd. We attempted to temporarily relocate the ground in efforts to solve the issue, with no luck.
If the coil pack replacement is not effective in solving this issue, would anyone have any ideas on how to go about locating the source of the problem? I will admit I know very little about electrical, my experience is in engine mechanics, so be easy with the electrical lingo if you have any advice.
My current issue is the car is consistently blowing Engine Ignition fuse 1 located in the driver side fuse box inside the vehicle. I believe this is due to a grounding error on my part, (I attempted to make a temporary battery tie down by rigging up some metal braces from the stock tie down to an unused Bolt on the fuel pump housing bracket, in retrospect this was an absolutely terrible idea, as it was most likely grounding out the motor). I removed the offending item, but now the issue is even more persistent. It has even evolved to effecting the coil pack closest to the fuel pump bracket. After replacing the blown fuse, I turned over the motor, it fires right up, but coil pack #4 begins to emit a white smoke and the plastic on the underside begins to melt.
I swapped the malfunctioning pack to cylinder 1 in attempts to identify whether the wiring is bad. The problem followed this particular pack. Upon further inspection the pack was found to be extremely hot, while none of the others emitted much, if any heat. The car would idle roughly (still ironing out the tune) and then blow the Engine Ignition #1 fuse again.
No other fuses were blown, and it seems to be after about 20-30 seconds of idling.
I'm going to try to replace the damaged coil pack and see if that solves the issue. But I'm concerned that's not the only problem. We checked over our grounds and all sensors multiple times before reassembling the car, and found nothing out of place (save my stupid metallic battery tie down).
I had suspected the AWR passenger side mount of being the culprit as the location of the ground is different than the stock mount. Where the stock mount had a ground posted on the engine side of the mount, this AWR mount relocates the ground to the frame side of the mount, which I immediately found very odd. We attempted to temporarily relocate the ground in efforts to solve the issue, with no luck.
If the coil pack replacement is not effective in solving this issue, would anyone have any ideas on how to go about locating the source of the problem? I will admit I know very little about electrical, my experience is in engine mechanics, so be easy with the electrical lingo if you have any advice.