[s-cars] Let me down weekend

[Charlie Smith]

Earlier, MILAMBERB at aol.com wrote:
>
>  This was the first time that my s-car has let me down. Went to Providence
> friday night,(maybe the car wanted to go to Paul's) and on the trip back
> saturday the car's check engine light came on and of during the ride. I
> thought maybe that she was just envious of the grin I had on my face when I
> stepped out of the S8 that they had in the showroom at Inskip. Anyhoo  I shut
> the car off and went to start it again and nothing. Luckily friends have a
> trailer so I got her home. Sunday run codes..injector #1. Ok. Start the car.
> Runs fine. Drive up the road light on car drives with no boost. Drive to a
> friends and shut it off. No start again. Run codes and run the test codes and
> all injectors are fine.WTF! Now I say screw it and I put all of the RS2
> injectors in . Car runs. Take it for a ride somthing is still wrong.....run
> the codes....mixture is off.....so I put in the Rs2 maf. Car runs again. Take
> it up to Stop&Shop in Colchester to buy diner and it's overboosting like
> crazy. Shut her off buy some food......She is still at stop&yourcarbreakshere
> in Colchester. But now the code comes up that I was looking for...camshaft
> position sensor. My question to you guys is why didn't that code come up
> before?

I've heard that the cam position sensor failure may show temperature
sensitivity, especially at first.  That may be why you could start
it when cold and not otherwise.

I strongly syspect that changing the injectors and MAF, especially
to some with different calibrations, just confused the issue badly.

    - Charlie


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