I'm coming home last night and I stop at a light. Next thing you know, my car dies... I try starting her up but no luck. Pop the hood, I see white smoke coming from the HKS ignition amp unit.



Question...



1.) I'm suspecting it came from a short, else, how else could I blow the unit? So... could carbon build up on my spark plugs cause a short thus blowing the unit or could it be a faulty install? (KDR installed it for me.)



2.) I think I should be OK running the car, though I'd run a bit lean... Right??? (Turned down the boost just in case...)



AC

 

it should run fine without it..... maybe a bad ground.... could be many things. first of all disconnect the unit and contact whoever you bought it from and get a new one....smoking electronics........well smoking anything is bad

 

Q1.. NO and then Yes to the second part..



Q2.. probably run rich with out it or the same

 

Did you pull the spark plugs to look? It shouldn't take any time to do this, so get to it

 

yeah, pulled the plugs... they looked fine... i dunno, I'm just going to bring it back to kdr cuz they did the install.