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acet
10-26-2009, 11:11 PM
WOW If you guys knew what happened today! So I decided to spray some starting fluid into the intake while cranking the car. It did start for about half a second or so.

I decided to spray some into the throttle body, and when I took the intake pipe off along with the ICV, I started messing with the ICV. All of a sudden there was something equivalent to a shotgun shot and a flame came out of the ICV hole. It made my ears ring for a good hour. No, I am not exaggerating.

What could have caused this? The battery was connected, the key was in the position 2.
E34Big6
10-26-2009, 11:47 PM
IVC has an electric solenoid that lit the starter fluid.
acet
10-26-2009, 11:54 PM
ICV was in my hand when this happened.
E34Big6
10-26-2009, 11:57 PM
Oh well then I'm not sure what lit the fluid the ICV was what lit the starter fluid on my car when I was diagnosing a dead fuel pump.
David325e
10-27-2009, 12:04 AM
Do you have bad wiring to your engine?
Binjammin
10-27-2009, 12:31 AM
You may have had a coil discharge, it's not impossible for that to happen.