For starters; 92 GS with JDM B18C (Type R) swap with S80 transmission and a chipped P28 ECU. Bought it about a month ago, put it up on 4 stands, stripped everything, did energy suspension bushings and everything, during this time I occasionally started the vehicle with no problems to let it warm up etc.
Now just put it back on the ground 2 days ago, reassembled most of the interior, put the cluster back in properly and drove it up and down my driveway to test to make sure the speedometer was working, all good, so I put the center console, and the bezel back on, and all of the sudden all hell broke lose… the car would no longer start and is making all kinds of weird noises. So i had to tow it back up my driveway with my other DA :rockon: so I could push it back into my garage and go to work.
Now since that I have put roughly 12 hours into hunting for the culprit of this elusive electrical nightmare. I have since ripped apart my entire dash again, cluster, bezel, heater controls, center console, all has been removed again. It seems as if something is shorting out because my battery is always dead, it will not let me turn anything on, not even the dome light unless it is hooked up to a battery charger. Weird part is when I have the battery charger on I cannot hear where the wire is shorting out, even when I set the charger to 12amp charge I still cannot hear a wire shorting out anywhere…
With the battery charger hooked up I can get some things to work like the lights, but I can’t get the fuel pump to kick on, which is retarded because it was just working… And no there is no fuel pump kill switch on the car. And when I try to start the car there is a shit load of clicking and such like a bad ground tripping out. See this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14HtHPj7NcY
Also my RPM gauge seems to be functioning as a voltage gauge right now lol when I have the battery charger on and turn the key to on and turn on any lights or use the horn the RPM gauge jumps… videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp_dr9eOgKA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1doL_YKdrA
Since the videos I have taken apart the fuse box and taken off the ICU, I have popped the cover off and everything looks normal inside.
Other mentionable things:
With the battery charger hooked up I turned on the wipers and the RPM gauge jumped like the other videos but there was also a lot of clicking coming from the dash, sounding just like in the video when I try to start the car.
I have checked, double checked, and triple checked all my fuses in my driver fuse box and under the hood fuse box, and they ARE ALL GOOD. Initially the 15amp fuse for the interior light/clock/cigarette lighter was blown but I replaced it and it has not blown again since…
Any thoughts on how I can fix this issue would be greatly appreciated as I am quickly running out of ideas as to what the fuck has gone wrong here…
