Car has spark! My suby setup, Now just dbl checking all wires to be sure load are good before running Options

[JRust]

Okay so my wrench called last night. Car was all finished & he went to fire it up. Turns over fine but no start. This is what it was doing before the fire. Also off & on it has plagued me since I got the car. I've replaced the ignition with multiple times. I added a push button for the starter to take that off the switch. Seemed like there was to much power going through it which I thought was from the starter. Obviously it is not.

One thing is almost without fail as soon as I put in a new switch & use it I get smoke from it every time. It would be fine right after the brief smoke so I didnt worry to much about it. What else is feeding the ignition switch that may be pushing to much power through it? What do you guys recommend doing here? Cutting out the switch completely? Do you think the problem lies somewhere besides the switch?

[Subietech]

Hello 914 world.

Subietech here. Im new to this forum and I am the one working on Jamie's car.

Jamie was referred to me by Outfront Motorsports. I have worked a lot with them in the past and they know and trust my work. That being said, Im a Subaru mechanic with a background in Performance and VW Vanagon swaps so as you can imagine, The 914 is a little new to me.

The ECU and harness install was pretty straight forward.

In my head, I'm thinking a bad ground and or bad ignition. Ive gone over all of the grounds in the engine bay and all seem good with the exception of some thick paint (most likely not an issue)

I do get a god awful sound and vibration from the fuel pump with the key turned on. Thinking it was maybe a bad ground at the fuel pump. I relocated it to a location with no paint. Still no spark and no change in noise or vibration.

Now I am in the process of replacing the ignition switch. If I get a spark, I am going to ad a 30amp toggle to both the fuel pump and ECU/ ignition as r_towle suggested and hope that it last though more then a "few" on/off cycles.

The four Red wires going to the battery were melted in the fire. as were most of the wires that come together just behind the Fire wall. I cut out the bad sections and patched it all up. if the new ignition switch doesn't work, I going to pull the four red wires and go from there.

If anyone has any other ideas, or has had this issue come up in the past. Please don't hesitate to chime in. At this point I'm seeing wires in my sleep.

(Jamie, Im heading to LA for Xmas.. I am gonna talk it over with the guys at Outfront and see what we can come up with.. I ordered the Ignition switch so once I get back up to Bend ill pop it in and cross my fingers…)


Happy Holidays everyone~

Mike
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