Well, ive been doing everything you guys have suggested. And nothing. I give up. I do not have the time, money or patience to continue to figure out the problem. I just plan on selling the car and if that doesnt work ill be junking it. i apologize for the time that was wasted on helping me out on figuring it out. i really do appreciate the advice.

 

Where are you located? Perhaps a member here will buy it from you.

 

Wuz kinda thinking the same thing .....

 

Heck, I once bought a 94 Chrysler off a dude for $100 and a dvd player. His cousin was a "mechanic" and just couldn't get it to run right. It had a bad miss in the engine. I closed the deal, put 2 plug wires back on the coil pack and drove it home. I spent about $150 more on parts and transmission fluid and filter change and sold it for $1,200. Someone might do a similar thing with this Saturn if the OP is giving up.

 

That's how I got my saturn except mine needed an engine overhaul paid $100 for the car put about $2000 into the motor and steering and now I have a car that runs and is fun to drive. Kinda thinking about finding another one and doing it again

 

Im located in Connecticut. I am trying not to go to the junk yard because they will offer me $350 and thats hard to swallow. Between buying the car and putting parts in (that I have not even enjoyed using) im invested in about $1600. I attached 2 photos of the car.

 

Man, that's a nice looking car. I'm wayyyyy too far south to make an offer and make it worth my time to come fetch it. Good luck with it. I still think it's fixable, but would take a smarter person than me to figure it out. I'm just a dumb old hillbilly.

 

If you still have it next week, I may have an answer for you that will solve the problem. Hold on.

 

I'm home now and looking in the book. The FSM is made for a dealer tech who has a factory scan tool, not just a generic one, so troubleshooting this one can be difficult. However it does say to solve the code P0300 first.

P0300 is random misfire. You have replaced everything in the system so unless you used parts that are not specified for your car, you should not be getting this. One common mistake is to use low resistance (performance) ignition wires. You need the correct total resistance in the secondary circuit for the computer to see the pulses it needs for the cam position sensor.

I'm going out on a limb here and suggest something that is not typical for this type of failure, but remotely possible and that is a really bad leak in the intake manifold gasket around the #1 cylinder. This would throw off the MAF and cause the #1 cylinder to run very lean and the #4 to run very rich. That would cause the random misfire as well as making it difficult for the cam position sensor to work.

Spray some type of volatile chemical spray around the gasket of the #1 port and see if it affects the idle. You can use carb cleaner or WD40. If the idle is affected in any way, you need a new gasket. Use an aftermarket felpro and not a factory gasket, they are much better.