dynevahn

Ok I drove my car the other day and it drove great, it idled perfectly and didnt smoke. I went to work and came back 5 hrs later. It wouldnt start, i checked the egi fuse, it had blown. I changed it and started it up. Took it home went to sleep and the next morning had same problem except the fuse didnt blow, it keeps on flooding itself. The engine has good compression. I took the spark plug wires off the coil and tried starting it, im not getting any spark.. please someone help me. This is my third engine and about 6k later. This fc is a money pit. More details this is a s4 vert. Thanks for any input.

WAYNE88N/A

It's a long shot, but disconnect the black box looking thingy that's bolted to the chassis frame under the trailing coil pack. It's a capacitor that shunts EMF interference for cleaner timing signals for the ignition system, and if it decides to start shorting to ground, problems such as you described might happen...

Put a new fuse in after you unbolt it (and isolate it) from ground, and see if that helps...

dynevahn

you mean replace the main 80A fuse? Thanks wayne

WAYNE88N/A

No, no, no, not the fuse. The animal I'm talking about is a capacitor, bolted to the back of the left strut tower, below the trailing coils. If you get a flashlight & bend over & look under the coil pack, you'll see it. It looks just like the one that bolts to the clutch slave cylinder...