McMichem

So I redid the spade connectors on the relay and just jumped them for now to get my car started.

There ended up being a loose 20 or so pin connector on the back on my fuse board. I had the ignition lead jumped on the starter, so when I plugged the connector in and hooked up the battery it started right up...

It runs really ****ty right now and when I give it a little has to try and rev it to keep it going, it revs a little then stalls. And on top of that I'm seeing a tiny bit of white smoke that looks to be coming out of the valve cover gasket that got blown out when I started the car?..

McMichem

Also pulled the plugs today and they are dry fouled. I think the guy before me adjusted the valve by the metering plate without much of an idea and think it's probably set to rich but I'm afraid to mess with it to be honest

fasteddie313

Run the fuel pumps with the engine off...
Let the air metering plate sit at its rest position..
Adjust the 3mm allen mixture screw until the injectors start to spray with the air metering plte at rest..
Turn the mixture screw back lean just until the injectors stop spraying with the metering plate at rest.
This will put the system at the verge of spraying with any air measurement and is a grat base setting to start out with, it should run like this..
clockwise=richer - counterclockwise = leaner
You should run and tune with this mixture screw hole covered as it itself is a vacuum leak.
Check for vacuum leaks, just replace any and all cloth braided hoses you can find. Seriously, even if they look good throw them away. And check the boot from the fuel distributor to the turbo and the little 90 elbow to the turbo in the same location.

fasteddie313

Did you replace that TIMING BELT?

Please don't risk that rare engine over a $35 belt and tensioner..

McMichem

Dumb of me to do but just wanted to see if it would idle, my next day off I'll change that. Won't crank it again until I do.

Gonna make a day of it and do the timing belt, new plugs, valve cover gasket and replace the vacuum hoses. There aren't any that can't be reached without removing a bunch of **** right?

McMichem

Went to go change my valve cover gasket today after I let it idle for that 30 seconds the other day before my last post, and there is no oil in my valve cover.

It's practically bone dry besides a few tiny drops on top of the cam. No crud, no debri, nothing.

Alpineace

why are you posting here? almost nobody with real 924's post on RL

fasteddie313

Check the oiler tube plastic elbow where it goes from the tube to the head by the back of the cam pulley, they commonly fail. You can run the engine with the oil cap off and watch the oiler tube squirt on the first lobe there to confirm cam oiling..