Minnesota Focus Owners Club

I thought your car could not run without a MAF?

Pappy wrote: I thought your car could not run without a MAF?

It will run, it will load defaults. If you remove your 02's, it will run with defaults also. I belive the CEL comes on when you disconnect either, but, oh well.

Ok I'll give it a shot. It isn't throwing a CEL yet either...

You can always go to an autozone they will check codes for you, some times you get a code and no cel...

I threw the stock intake backon. Still idles a little rough, but it can drive now. It drives pretty normally (i was only able to go up to about 25 mph as I couldn't close my hood, as my n20 module is bolted in where the stock airbox goes, so it was just sitting on top with my hood open on top, haha. Sputters a little while decelerating. Still feels like possibly a bad plug wire. I think I am going to order a whole new intake system (as I had an ebay one before ) and just buy some stock plug wires and some new plugs.
I think that should fix her up.
Nils

If your going to keep driving it w/o replacing that head gasket, if it is the head gasket, keep an eye on your oil and coolant. Once that coolant hits your oil and is in there for a legnth of time, say buh-bye bearings.

Don't forget the part the plug wire connect to at the other end, Can you say Coil pack?

I have them $49.10.

It is a fairly common failure.

if you need another head I have my stock one still you can have if needed

You cant run stock foci wires with that aftermarket coil pack. You have to get zx2 wires.

get zx2 wires then, lol

Maybe I'll switch the coil pack back to stock also. It would also make finishing up the hook up of my oil press. guage a hell of a lot easier also.

The stock coil pack failed under boost.

Just hook up your oil pressure gauge to the back of the block. There is a nice little hole tapped there from the factory. Thats where i got oil for the turbo.

Will I need a T fitting off of it or is it just plugged and can I hook it up without needing a T fitting. I guess I'll just grab some plugs first, maybe I just fouled out a plug, and not a wire.

Its just a plugged hole. No need for a t fitting.

alright first check the connector at the coil pck the wires like to come out of there( hard excle, now running on two cylnders). i have a stock coil laying around here some where. then while engine is running take a spray bottle and spray downt the wires , it helps to dimm the rooms lights, look for arcs hoppin around, then check the plugs them self pull one out plug the wire on and crank dose it spark? check all four this way, then inspect all pugs for cracks in the porsolin, or for a loose electrode( i had a misfire in the intacke on a exscape, put a new head on, then found that the plugs porsoline would get red hot and move up and down on the electrode and fire the fuel as it was coming into the cyl.).