Okay, that VIN is not showing up, are you located in the US? But the only models with a 1.8 are the two I listed previously. I'd be really surprised it doesn't have a check engine light, even pre-1996 (OBD1) had check engine or malfunction indicated lamps. There should be a tag either under the hood or in the driver side door frame that has a build date on it, just a month and year (ie, 06-94 for example).
But for the MX-5 on the MAIN ECM relay I do see 2 White/Green wires going to one pin which feed the load side of the relay, that relay in turn, feeds the fuel pump relay on the White/Red wire, the White/Red wire also powers the fuel injectors and bunch of other things.
The MAIN relay also has a double pin Black/White wire which is the ground for that relay, its activated by the ignition switch feeding it power.
If you can post a picture of the VIN, I can search for that a little bit more.
For the Protege that White/Red wire comes from the relay labelled "MAIN Relay (FUEL INJ)" but it powers many other components as well as the ECM with the key On. It also powers the Distributor so that's probably why you aren't getting any spark, but the two vehicles have a slightly different setup when it comes the engine harness wiring.
Just trying to look over this as close as possible, the Protege has a Distributor, but the MX-5 looks to have two coil packs, so we'll go with the Protege wiring diagrams for now.
The White/Red wire does have a splice after leaving the Main relay, where it breaks of continuing as a White/Red, but also a White/Blue wire, which can also cause some confusion when trying to trace down these wires, the White/Blue wire feeds the injectors.
Strangely enough the White/Red wire goes to another splice which turns Lt Green/Black and that feeds the MAF and runs to the ECM.
So, some really stupid wire colors changes that shouldn't be like that. I'll go over any OEM diagrams as well if there are any,
This Main relay should have a constant ground on the black wire, so that's something you can check with a test light hooked to battery positive, with the relay out, the Main relay should have one pin with constant power, then the black/white wire with power from the Ign switch, You can check those with a test light hooked to Battery Negative. And then I would move on to the Fuel pump relay if that first one is okay.
I'll post the diagrams i'm looking at here.
Monday, January 13th, 2025 AT 9:19 AM