Does any one know a shop, person, company who can trouble shoot Ecotec electrical networks- both hardware and software- so not just tuning support. I am in Hernando County Florida but will to drive far if need be.
I recently purchased George-LandOLakes' 1.8 Chevy Ecotec 16' Dixon Twister made by the great Chuck Rackley who has sadly passed on as many of you know.
When I bought it it was in perfect running condition and Land O Lakes George is truly a class act so don't mistake this post as buyers regret or drama or such.
I absolutely love this light weight agile rig... but I might have royally screwed up.
After installing a new battery I forgot to connect the 2nd ground wire on the battery that goes directly to the starter, but rather only connected the frame ground.
When I cranked it to make sure everything worked, the engine fired but stalled out after 2 seconds of running and would only crank but not start again until I found the disconnected ground. I reconnected the ground and now it will start but is running very rough, making unpleasant noises like its missing badly, and appears to be in some sort of safe low power mode judging by the throttle response. It is also throwing an OBD code for every sensor you can imagine. Replacing one of the sensors did nothing to that particular code- it came right back after clearing. No blown fuses that i can see. I feel like I either fried the ECM or the wiring harness or something else i can conceive of.
Either way i'm out of my depth. I sent the ECM to an Ecotech tuner, he cant see any problem on the initial scan but the ECM is both locked with a code and reconfigured so the outputs don't match factory so no one else can tune it... i'm guessing by Trifecta. Trifect wont talk to me, car shops wont touch it, so i'm officially out of options.
Any help from the ecotec veterans would be greatly appreciated.
Jantzen
