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[beavis]

well my wife has been driving my car for a week and she tells me that it sounds funny... no explanation. just sounds funny. so i go to start it up yesterday and holy crap does it idle rough... almost feels like it is running on 3 cylenders. it runs for a while then smooths out and tosses me a check engine light. so I go to start it today and no start.. kinda sucks. any ideas?

 

[Emode]

get code checked at autozone, its free

 

[mspdfreak]

What mods do you have?

 

[beavis]

The only mods i have are colder plugs. (installed 1 year ago) and a set of kart boy shifter bushings.. i am going to call my dealership tomorrow.. I made sure the battery wasn't dead. my charger said it was fully charged.

 

[BlkZoomZoom]

No crank no start? Or did it crank and not start?

Why do you have colder plugs if everything else is stock?

 

[mspdfreak]

Yeah, I don't think the colder plugs are doing you any good on a stock motor. Now, extended reach, however...

Anyway, the plugs *may* be the problem, what with the colder temps outside.

 

[BlkZoomZoom]

The factories are extended reach...

 

[sickspeed94]

mine did the same thing, on the way home from the track about 80 miles away, i shifted and instead of the RPM's dropping to ~750, they just kept going and the car shut off... IN MID DRIVE. it kept happening all the way home, next morning i went out to check it out and drove it around... nothing. if it's a porblem maybe i have it too and it just fixed itself.

 

[jurgs01]

well my wife has been driving my car for a week and she tells me that it sounds funny... no explanation. just sounds funny. so i go to start it up yesterday and holy crap does it idle rough... almost feels like it is running on 3 cylenders. it runs for a while then smooths out and tosses me a check engine light. so I go to start it today and no start.. kinda sucks. any ideas?

#1 Don't let your wife drive a turbo car unless you tell her how.

#2 If you are all stock take it to the dealer.

#3 If you installed your new plugs did you gap them correctly? I know the ZFR7F plugs come gapped to .044", so make sure they are gapped to somewhere around .032" before you take it to the dealer.

 

[beavis]

it cranks and dosen't start. and as for the plugs I gapped them to .032 . they were a christmas gift last year. I was hoping to get a dp and cai. then turn up the boost. but my other car got totalled and had to purchase a new one. I'm calling mazda in the morning. i hope i dont have to pay for a tow all the way there...

 

[Mr. Win]

rough idle? was the whole car shaking? Did the cel flash?

have you looked at the spark plugs?

 

[beavis]

very rough idle. yes the car was shaking my shifter looked like it was doing a strip tease. I haven't looked at the plugs yet. i was planning on doing that in the morning

 

[mspdfreak]

The factories are extended reach...

Are you sure? I could swear I saw a thread here that showed pictures of the stock and extended reach, and they weren't the same.

 

[mspdfreak]

Nope, I looked again...the poster said he got one step colder AND extended reach, so I assumed the stockers weren't. On a side note, I have a set of BKR7E's sitting around. Inever put them in because I heard negative things about them on stock applications. Anything new on this? Sorry for the threadjack.

 

[Mr. Win]

sounds like the car is misfiring... but if you didnt get a flashing cel then im not really sure whats up. When going colder on stock in certain conditions and what not you could get pre-det which constantly could cause damage.

could also be a bad coil not allowiing one or two of the cylinders to fire. Id check the connectors, coils and plugs...

 

[beavis]

just checked the plugs. they are pretty black... mazda roadside assistance is on the way to my house in the next 60 min.

 

[Dr.Sound]

stock - ZFR6F - extended reach
a lot of people use - BKR7E - one step colder, not extended reach
they should be using ZFR7F - one step colder, extended reach

 

[Mr. Win]

were thier any bubbles in the coils or anything? i guess we will no soon enough.

 

[mspdfreak]

stock - ZFR6F - extended reach
a lot of people use - BKR7E - one step colder, not extended reach
they should be using ZFR7F - one step colder, extended reach

The ZFR7F's better for stock applications, in other words?

 

[beavis]

no I didn't see any bubbles. but there was a lot of black crud on the electrode. i cleaned them off some and stuck them back in and still didn't start...