Just wanted to share a little experience I had with you guys. Saturday night I was coming home from a friends party and I was just cruising down the road in 5th gear. I let off the gas for a little while coasting down a hill and I go to get back on the gas and I get no response. So I downshifted into 4th the rpms just up but I still get no throttle response. Downshift to 3rd and the results are the same. I pull over and put my 4 ways on. Get out check all my intercooler pipes, fuses, vaccum lines..etc. Nothing.

A cop stopped and asked if I needed help and I asked him if he could call a roll back for me. He did that set up a flare and left. I called some friends (keep in mind this is about 3am) to come pick us up. We get the car towed to my friend Mandi's house and at this point have no idea what's wrong. The car won't turn over at all and it makes a clunk noise like the starter is engaging the side of the flywheel. At this point I didn't think that was the problem because that would have made some hellish racket and I didn't hear any of that. SO we decide to leave it for the night and come back tomorrow and figure out what's going on.

Well yesterday we go back over to her house and try to figure out what's wrong. We tried to jump the car in the off chance that would work. Highly doubting that it would. Of course that did not work. So we get her step dad to hook up his truck to the back of my car and pull it up the hill so we can coast my car down the hill and up her driveway into the garage. We do that and get it in the garage. We put a racket on the crank to see if it turns. It does. We then decide to take the starter out and check to see if that was what was causing the problem. No luck there either, everything looks fine with the starter, flywheel..etc. We decide to check the ignition. We take the plugs out and turn the crank again. As I'm looking down into the cylinder and my friend is turning the crank a stream of liquid shoots up about 4 feet out of the car and hits me in the face. I just stand there kind of stunned at first trying to figure out what's going on until I start to smell it...it's alcohol.

We get a light and look down into the cylinder #4 and there is just a puddle of alcohol laying in there. So we get an empty windex bottle and take the sprayer off and get as much as we can out of there. Cut up a t-shirt and soak up as much as we can, while turning the crank to get as much of it out as we can. This took about an hour. My alcohol system obviously was spraying when it should not have been and just drowned out the spark plug. We continue doing this until we think we have all of it out. Try to start the car and it starts and runs like hell at first, obviously. After everything burns off the car is idleing like normal and everything seems to be ok. I rev up and everything is normal. My friend is looking over the engine bay and decides to use the tb to rev it and he hits a little bit of boost and more alcohol comes flying out of the bov and hits him in the face. Obviously we didn't get it all.

We take off the upper intercooler pipe and alcohol just comes running out of it. That's where we stopped for the day. We are going back this evening to unbolt the front bumper and take the intercooler off and dump that out. Recheck everything and make sure we have everything out of it. I'm going to change the oil once we get everything done as well just to be on the safe side. I have the hyperdrive digital alcohol injection kit. It's obviously a software glitch or some kind of pump problem. I'll try to keep things updated on what happens. As far as we could see no rods or valves were bent and everything seems to be normal.

 

Wow.. good luck with everything, keep us posted!

 

Yeah definitely give us an update. It sound like nothing mechanically is harmed in your engine though. Fix your alky injection and you should be fine. Good luck with everything.

 

tow truck of flat bed???? please say flat bed!!
all wheel drive car with good transfer case + tow truck = fubar

 

CHANGE YOUR OIL!!!!


More than likely, the alcohol in your cylinders leaked down into your oil. Alcohol and Oil do not mix very well at all.

 

damn... i hope my kit never does that...

 

If you look at my post I said I told the cop to call for a roll back...aka flat bed.

Also like I said I'm definetly going to change my oil as well.

 

Sad but amusing story. Like a baby pissin on a doctor. What wouldve happened if you were using just water injection? Thats a tough engine for taking that

 

what alky kit do you have??

 

Most of the questions you guys are asking can be found in my post. Hyperdrive digital alcohol injection is the kit I'm using.

 

Update:

So we had the car running today and everything seemed fine. We took it out for a test drive and made it maybe about 3 or 4 miles...and the damn thing died again. It will turn over this time and sounds like it wants to start back up. Had to get it towed back to a friends house. More tomorrow if I can figure out what the hell is going on.

 

uh oh... alcohol was set-up again? or running without it?

if you were running without it this time and it did that, doesnt sound good to me.

good luck keep us updated.

 

Alcohol system was unplugged and it never saw more then 5psi of boost when I was driving it around. The alcohol injection doesn't kick in until 15 psi so it is tuned and capable of doing what I was doing. The tow truck guy kind of laughed when he came to pick up the car because we already had the bumper, bumper support, and intercooler ripped off when he got there.

 

Update: I changed the oil and plugs. I have the car running again and was actually able to make it home without any problems. Everything seems to be back in order as of now. I'm half scared to go anywhere or do anything with it though. Haha.

 

glad to see u got it together so far