I'm gonna give it a little more time then I'll bug the crap outta you. I appreciate it, cap'n. Thanks for the advice, and it's great to see you back on the forums again. You'd been dormant a while.

EDIT: Jumping sounds a lot more plausible now that I've narrowed things down a bit. I'm still gonna see if I can pinpoint it before going the trial and error route.

 

dormant..yeah i guess you can say that. i sorta fell for turbo dodges and put the lancer on hold until i get a better job since turbo dodges are CHEAP to make very fast. the lancer just kills my wallet.

 

Welp, she's up and idling again. Drove her a few feet just in and out of the garage. I'm getting a lot of smoke on startup, but I'm pretty sure it's just coming up through the back of the engine bay from the half-connected exhaust and unplugged 2nd O2 sensor.

I've always had a problem with my dome light ever since I had a botched alarm install done (for which I was credited more than the cost of the install and the alarm, so I didn't complain at the time). Turns out the short was in the radio and/or dome light fuse in the engine compartment. Took a friend and a few hours to figure it out, but figure it out we did. Thanks everyone for all the help. At least the car runs now. The radio and the dome light I'll fix once I get the car back together.

 

Awesome dude! I'm glad you tracked it down. And so the problem was just fixed when you removed that fuse and cut off that circuit?
-N

 

Yup.