Should I?

Working on a DOHC or 2.4L swap, or maybe you have some other idea and have some questions? Feel free to ask them here...
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Should I?

Post by vielecustoms » Thu Apr 24, 2008 4:12 pm

as most of you know (and probally sick of hearing me whine about) my 96 sohc hasn't been running in a while (no spark) and I have gone through it and changed sensors and tested away with no luck.

Ok now, I have a 2.4 that I am currently building and getting close to swapping it in. my question should I give one last attempt at getting the sohc figured out before I start screwing with the 2.4 and DOHC pcm?
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Post by geezy21unc » Thu Apr 24, 2008 4:43 pm

part it out. or just keep it and play with it when you finsh your 2.4
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Post by vielecustoms » Thu Apr 24, 2008 4:51 pm

so my problem could be solved when I do swap the 2.4? I just hate spending a bunch of time/money getting the sohc running to just pull it and stuff the 2.4 in
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Post by mahifish » Thu Apr 24, 2008 6:23 pm

Yeah just put the 2.4 and be done. Dont worry about the 2.0 its not worth the effort.
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Post by vielecustoms » Thu Apr 24, 2008 6:47 pm

thats what I wanted to hear :lol:

I'm hopeing to finish the engine early this summer and hopefully put it in and get her running before the end of summer.
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Post by Ladi3sman55 » Thu Apr 24, 2008 7:18 pm

mahifish wrote:Yeah just put the 2.4 and be done. Dont worry about the 2.0 its not worth the effort.
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scrap it or part it out for some pocket change
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Post by chipdogg » Thu Apr 24, 2008 10:46 pm

Lol, if you are putting the 2.4 into the SOHC car, it would help to make sure it all works first. But if the 2.4 has it's own sensors with the right pigtails, it could "fix" itself. To each his own though.

Nothing sucks more than getting a 2.4 in a car that you got with a blown motor, and having it not start up and you have to figure out if it's your fuck up or something else. Then it sucks when you find out the fuel pump is junk as well as the old motor, so you chase your tail awhile making sure you did it right.
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Post by vielecustoms » Fri Apr 25, 2008 1:37 pm

everything works, I just have no spark. but I have tested and checked everything and changed a few sensors and pcm. I am at the point that I am close to dropping it off at a garage but I know thats going to cost a ton just to take it all back apart it would be kinda stupid to waste that much that could be put to much better use.
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Post by chipdogg » Fri Apr 25, 2008 3:35 pm

Well you must have missed something, if you were closer I bet I could figure out why it doesn't have spark within half an hour :)

If it were me, I'd just do the 2.4 swap, but then again I've done plenty of them and have had pretty much everything go wrong with a Neon that you can have go wrong, so I know what to look for. And I hate diagnosing stuff online cuz half the time people are too stupid to do what needs to be done to verify if sensors work or not.
'97 black ACR coupe- #3 - Scrappy
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'11 Chevy Express
'02 atx - #48
'98 Intense Blue R/T - #49
'04 SRT-4 - #50
'99 Intense Blue R/T - #51

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Post by vielecustoms » Fri Apr 25, 2008 9:08 pm

I hear ya there, thats what sucks about living here everyone seems to be in PA or out west
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Post by neonjr » Thu May 07, 2009 9:48 pm

no spark?

measure resistance of wires between pcm and ignition coil.

PCM PIN 2 (C2) ---- TO COIL PACK PIN 3
PCM PIN 3 (C2) ---- TO COIL PACK PIN 1

These should be no higher than 0.3-0.5 ohms. if the are you have green death somewhere.

otherwise, plugs, wires, coil.

if not, check your ground, pin 2 on the coil pack harness connector. backprobe with a jumper to ground. if the little shit starts, then you have a problem with that wire and its several splices, but doubtfull considering you say you have fuel, but no spark, and the injectors also ground off the same ground as the coil.

if that then fails. PCM my friend. Coil drivers would be fubar. wouldn't be the first time.
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