Bad Night For The Talon
 

So I'm in Oklahoma City for training and on my way back to the apartment last night, the Talon starts running on two cylinders. Then we get this hellatious wind storm which blows a bunch of shingles off the building and of course the car gets hit putting some nice scratches in the paint. Welcome to Oklahoma. :angryfire:

So I have no spark to the outer two holes. I was able to find a power transistor but that didn't fix it. I have all kinds of spare parts at home of course. ECU, coil pack, CAS, etc. Not sure what the fuck to do now.

Anyone with this problem ever fix it and what was the cause? I've been searching the boards and I can find many posts made by guys with the exact same problem but they never say what the fix was. If there was one.

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Sounds like one bank of your coil pack probably died. cylinders 1 and 4 are fired off the same coil.

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Have to figure out the most economical way to get home this weekend and haul back some spare parts. :(

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Coil pack dude. 1 and 4 run off of the same coil

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Any cell lights? Could also be your power transistors.

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Power transistor would kill all spark. It's the 1-4 coil.

See if there's a local board, someone will have a coil laying around.

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Just buy a new coil pack at napa, it will be way cheaper than coming back up here to get one or have someone ship it to you.

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swap coil packs, call it a day.

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Coil it is!

Checked the resistance of the secondary windings of the coils. 2,3 was 13k ohms and 1,4 was 6k ohms. Tolerance is 10-13k ohms. Of all the cars I've owned, and there have been many including 7 DSMs, I've never had a coil go bad.

My buddies Andrei and J.R., co-proprietors of Abel Racing in Midwest City, OK, hooked me up with a hacked up '90 coil pack that I was able to use until I get home and can put the proper one in.

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Ah, the joys of DSMs. Sorry about the scratches in your new paint!

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Andrei is the shit. Tell him hi for me and I've got some cheap-ass Vodka for him.

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Will do.

Got hailed on tonight. :scared:

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I was at the shop today watching them dyno a 700+ hp RB26. Damn!