| RAMBLE PORTION: I have a 95’ cobalt green z32. Beautiful body, but I made the mistake of purchasing it as it was a salvaged EXPORT title. It’s up on jacks in my garage right now, with the engine partially taken apart as I gave up on it in the middle of a project. I bought it in California as an automatic and drove it almost all the way back home in Nevada. It broke down before I got back, but I KNOW she wants to drive. I only made my problem worse because before solving the issue, I tore out the automatic transmission and tried manual swapping it as a complete novice(this being the first car I ever worked on). The last thing I tried doing was replacing all of the injectors, injector pigtails, spark plug connectors, and some other smaller things. I gave up after replacing all the injectors, and halfway through the hell hole of soldering new connections on. BACKGROUND ON PREVIOUS WORK: I had this car taken to a mechanic shop where they were able to give me a lot of hope! They replaced all of my vacuum lines, as well as installed some new hardware on for me. It was idling very strong and I thought they had solved the issue. As i continued to try and get it to drive, it would start up and die out faster and faster. After a few other fails, i decided I’d push all my chips in and take off the intake manifold and continue researching for the culprit. Even though I gave up halfway through, i came up with a few ideas for what it would be! A faulty EGR, bad PTU, or a bunch of bad misfires due to faulty wiring with the injectors AND spark plugs. I want to stop the manual swap, stick my auto harness back in and revert any other changes I did. Try to start from what should’ve been square one if I really do try to revive this car. BUT I NEED A GOOD FULL DISCUSSION. I have a bunch of previous posts on this car, I’m not sure if that’ll bring more info. But please, I don’t think I’m truly ready to give up on her?? I’m better experienced and equipped than before. That’s why I bought a better, DRIVING, CLEAN TITLED CAR. I love these cars, I don’t want such a beautiful Z to get crushed because I ruined any chance of it driving again. TLDR: salvaged 95’ z32. Broke down coming back to Nevada from California. Previous work: - Vacuum line repair @ mechanic shop, worked fine after that - after I continued to work on it, it would idle shorter and shorter Checked: fuel pump/fuel pressure, replaced damn near every main relay/fuse. There’s a lot I’m forgetting, I have it all written down though.
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13:52:53 03/14/26
