Well I just had a sudden clarity of mind on why I had issues besides the capacitor of course...I was looking over a picture and saw a thick black wire poking up by the brake booster.

Oh hey...look...my engine ground is disconnected.

God I hate myself at times.

Also grounded my headlights to the stupid starter instead of the alternator....hence the constant power being on.

Friends don't let friends connect wiring sleep deprived.

Yeah but like, aren't you always sleep deprived? :party:

Yes but there are several stages of sleep deprivation

24 hours:mild discomfort and a slight decrease in memory and a large decrease in short term memory

48 hours: physical discomfort, food tastes bland, memory is shot unless you read something 5 times just to get the idea in your head

72 hours: welcome to zombie state, you better not have to do anything that requires thought or physical ability otherwise you are going to fail

96 hours: Fuck. That. Never again. I think I was close to death at that point.

Insomnia sucks, especially when meds like Ambien and Lunesta don't work. There is one drug that worked(read past tense) but considering it is a class 1 and Utah frowns heavily on it, it isn't worth the risk.


Anyone have a good source for local 10k capacitors? Largest I've found is 4700k. Maybe try a car dealer or an audio store?

Meh, that mistake wasn't so bad. Try hooking up the PCV system on your subaru wrong and pulling/doing a headgasket on the motor because of it; only to find out after the fact. :rofl:

IDK, hallucinating due to sleep deprivation in 500 person college lectures actually made them somewhat interesting. All those pretty lights.

FM intercooler piping makes the normal one-piece idea foul out.

I legitimately don't remember half the work i did this last time putting the MX6 together. 68 hour straight through wrenching bender FTL.

Ahhhhhhhh. Didn't know that.

For future reference, if you're willing to pony up 16 bucks, M-Carr has these baller machined aluminum 1.25" barb couplers. They are AWESOME. http://www.mcmaster.com/#5357k77/=rh7am2

I bought one for my FM lower rad hose (needed to extend it due to my rad relocate).

-Zach

-Zach

^ Awesome. That'll be in my next Mcmaster shipment for sure. Thanks!

Will I do any damage to the COP without a capacitor on it until I can find a 10k capacitor to replace the burned out one?

It's debatable that the capacitor is actually required (that's what I got from the COPs thread anyway) ;)

I never ran one on my 90 because i read the capacitor was built inline to the oem wiring i used for it, or something of that sort.

I dont run one on my 94. Never had any issue. Im wondering if the cap prevented you from blowing the coils?

How is the cap wired up?
If it's a power supply filter cap then bigger might be fine.

If you can show a crude napkin drawing of the circuit we'll tell you your options ;)

We have a whole 20,000 page thread dedicated to this, go read it. Its even a sticky somewhere :brain:

No capacitor on my COPs. No issues.

Connected the engine ground in hopes that it would solve the no power issue with megasquirt, still no dice. I have all the drivers installed, and still no lights from megasquirt, and the fuel pump still doesn't prime on ignition key.

Time to track down a fault with the power wire.

Hmm ok ignore that. For some reason the fuel injection fuse was missing, so I scavenged one from my old car, turned the key, and my laptop instantly recognized MS.

still no fuel pump priming though...