I have it bad...

"DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully" (danceswithrotors) 01/06/2014 at 12:21 • Filed to: Fiat, Italy, Damn L-Jet!!!

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I spent last night dreaming of Fiat Spiders, I've been looking at Fiats online, drooling over a couple of Alfas, in addition to Fiats, listening to recordings of old twin-cam Fiat racecars.

In addition to this, I'm trying to figure out why the ECU isn't grounding pin 85 on the Fuel Injection relay on the Spider I'm seriously looking at... (Friend's car == Get to play doctor with it.) It's either the ECU isn't getting power, or the sealed-in-box rebuilt ECU is dead. I know the relay works, because with a test button, I can ground pin 85, swing the "weathervane" in the airflow meter and get the pump to pulse and the injectors to fire. I know she's getting spark on all 4, so...

Damn L-Jetronic.

Have a semi-related picture for the patience with my rant.

Tom McParland > DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully 01/06/2014 at 12:23

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Well at least you were dreaming about Fiat Spiders and not real spiders.

HammerheadFistpunch > DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully 01/06/2014 at 12:24

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Man, I've been there. I was literally kept awake thinking about land cruisers...and then I bought one.

DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully > HammerheadFistpunch 01/06/2014 at 12:37

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I did that with my 740 wagon and then my 240, when I bought them... It's the Project-Car-Itis, I think.

bkempert > HammerheadFistpunch 01/06/2014 at 12:39

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Did the same thing with my e30.

Jeff-God-of-Biscuits > DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully 01/06/2014 at 13:22

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you might try giving that website I listed with the exhaust a call. In the videos, he seemed like a pretty full on Fiat guy, and might give some advice.

Dusty Ventures > Tom McParland 01/06/2014 at 14:30

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*Insert vine of "suddenly spiders"*

chuck07 > DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully 01/06/2014 at 14:52

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I have an 81. Very fun car. Not difficult to work on.

Just make sure you get one that isn't full of rust. I have been trying to sell mine for months, and nobody wants it because of the (admittedly intimidating) rust.

DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully > chuck07 01/06/2014 at 14:56

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Agreed on the not rusty bit. I'm looking seriously at a friend's 82 with only one serious rust spot, and a little surface rust on the trunklid. I just need to figure out what the hell is up with the ECU on it...

chuck07 > DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully 01/06/2014 at 15:06

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Have you tried to clean the contacts on the ecu and the connector?

I have only taken that out once, and tend to let it be.

DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully > chuck07 01/06/2014 at 16:15

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I have.. The ECU was, until yesterday, still sealed in the box it came in after being rebuilt. However, I tend to trust rebuilt ECUs far less than I trust an original, unmolested Bosch one, so I'm going to chase one of those down on the Interwebs, this week.