[cycleguy77]

I just bought a 1992 si. Everything seemed good at the time of purchase from a private party. The next day I noticed that the car did not want to start right up like usual. It cranks and sometimes for a fraction of a second it fires up, but then dies. It reaIly only lasts for about .2 seconds when it does fire up. I usually have to crank it anywhere from 3- to say 13 times to get it to actually start and not die. It drives perfectly when driving. It has 150k miles. This is an intermittent problem that only happens when the car is driven and turned off for 5 to 20 minutes. I believe that it is a fuel problem of some kind or an ignition problem? Like I said, it only does it part of the time, maybe 10%.

Something else happened to my car today. I was trying to figure what was wrong with the starting problem and continued to turn the car on and off about 7 times, then suddenly the car stopped all together. I mean the battery was immediatly almost dead. It would not even crank at all and my cd player automatically spit out my CD and my oil light, abs light, and I believe my check engine light came on and would not turn off. I tried to start the car with a battery box, but that did not seem to help. Very strange, does anyone know if this may be related to the starter relay problem or does it sound like it is just the alternator problem? Thanks