Originally Posted by LantanaTX

Thanks for all the comments it was very nice to read all the messages after wanting to pull all my hair out a few times. The car is not in Bedford. I is in Lewisville at Krause's Automotive on Mill Street. I left the shop a little while ago and was a dissappointed that I can't quite drive it home. We still are resolving a few issues that are mostly related the engine sitting around since 2002.

You may all be wondering how we got it running?? Well yesterday we tried a few things with the DRBIII thanks to Ferris but we still didn't get anywhere. I don't think the DRB is required in this conversion. it is basically doing what the MB STAR sytem does but not as well and no Developer mode. We just got fed up with all this modern computer stuff and went old school. We checked for fuel and spark. We then jumped the starter which we had done before but this time we just let it crank much longer. Then it started! We still coudn't get cranking so Robert wired in a relay to activate the starter when the key is turned to start. While this will work we are finding that sometimes the engine starts right up and sometimes it takes too much time to start. We are starting to think we need to go over the power cotrol module again. it worked fine when the V6 came out so it is hard to believe it went bad but the symtoms are very much like the Mystery no start issue. It could also be a slight error in some of the coding strings we did. We spent most of the time tonight working on the now intermittant starting problem and didn't have a chance to resolve the missfire on cylinder 4 issue. The engine did get to temp and my dual fan conversion worked just great. Thanks again everyone for the support. Words cannot decribe how challenging this whole project has been. Keep your fingers crossed for the first video and drive report. It drives half as good as it sounds, I am in for a real treat. The Anza exhaust now has a much deeper growl. I am now going to go read the Mystery no start thread and see what i can learn. i also saw on MB world SLK guys having a similar problem but I am not sure it applies to us but they seem to have a common problem with older cars and they dry solder connections around the K40.