Frosty's S16 6 speed

[Frosty]

Couple more snow pics from today

[Frosty]

Bit of a weekend update. I went down work Saturday morning and got the rear axle changed over and fitted with braided lines. Also got a blue calliper back on the near side front at least. So now with the brake lines the brake pedal feels pretty awesome.

Finally got round to fitting my club stickers as well





Just need to check the avac system out cause it is feeling flat till it gets up to 4k rpm. Hopefully find the fault and get it sorted by Saturday for the rolling road

[Frosty]

this car is really anoying me at the moment. i seem to fix 1 think and something else just goes wrong!

i went to have a look at seeing about the avac sysytem and went to take a pipe off and just snaped the nipple off 1 of the diaprham things so need to see if i can get 1 off my spare engine tomorrow night.

also i fort that i had sorted out the stop light by bleeding the cooling sysytem and get 2 new bleed screw which made the stop light go out but yesterday the light decided to ramdomly come back on so im now near the point in taking the bulb out which i dont really want to do as i like to fix things properly

[Jonny b]

One thing to check bud there is a electro valve by the battery, it's a cylindrical thing with what looks like a pipe missing off the top! Off the top of my head its under the 4 way valve to the right of the engine, there is 2 pipes connected! Try swapping the pipes round, if you find it's alive before 4k but dead after then that's the problem, took me fookin ages to figure that one out, about £20 from pug

[Frosty]

Ok cheers will try and pop a diaphragm on tomorrow night off my spare engine and then go from there.

The stop light is really annoying me though!!

[Frosty]

i really dont understand this stop with. driving to work this morning i get in my car start her up and the stop light is on. i drive about 5 miles and it just goes out and then about after mile it comes back on.

any ideas? i cant work out why it seemed like i had fixed it when i rebled the cooling system and then it randomly comes back on and goes out for a bit every now and then

[C.A.R.]

Does a phase 1 have a separate coolant level warning light? Or is that definitely why the STOP light is coming on?

If it was then I would suggest a coolant level sensor connection problem, but I'm all out of ideas otherwise as I've never had a phase 1...

[sam]

Which car you bringing on the second dude?

[ozonehostile]

Does a phase 1 have a separate coolant level warning light? Or is that definitely why the STOP light is coming on?

If it was then I would suggest a coolant level sensor connection problem, but I'm all out of ideas otherwise as I've never had a phase 1...

yeah theres a separate low coolant level light

[Frosty]

Which car you bringing on the second dude?

The S16 mate. I'm really looking forward to this and am interested to see what the S16 has got

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Does a phase 1 have a separate coolant level warning light? Or is that definitely why the STOP light is coming on?

If it was then I would suggest a coolant level sensor connection problem, but I'm all out of ideas otherwise as I've never had a phase 1...

yeah theres a separate low coolant level light

Which is the coolant level light? The stop light is on as well as the little red light by the temp gauge

[Jonny b]

Red light by the temp gauge is overheating light, I believe the stop comes on at the same time! Sure you got a decent temp sensor? Do your fans cut in at the correct temp? Could go as far as as having to much resistance in the harness

[Frosty]

Red light by the temp gauge is overheating light, I believe the stop comes on at the same time! Sure you got a decent temp sensor? Do your fans cut in at the correct temp? Could go as far as as having to much resistance in the harness

Is the temp sense the blue 1 on the back of the thermostat housing?

The fans all work fine when it gets to about 100 on the gauge and it sits at 80 on normal driving

What do you mean by to much resistance in the harness?

[Jonny b]

The wiring gets old and crappy and when it does the resistance on the wire with regards to how easy it is to push electric signals through it increases, so if you are only pushing a small amount through in the first place, a small increase in resistance can make a big difference

Lay men's terms lol

[Frosty]

Ah right do you think it would be worth trying a new temp sensor? The blue 1. I've already replaced the brown 1

[Jonny b]

Yeh try it bud! They are only cheap, process of elimination unless your handy with a meter, and know the circuit

[ozonehostile]

but if you do change any wires, make sure its with the same gauge and resistance as the original. seen too many problems caused by people using the wrong wire

[Frosty]

I think I will try replacing the blue temp sensor before I get to involved in the wiring. On the spare engine I got its got the full wiring so could swap that over

[Frosty]

Sorted a few bits out on this over that last few days. Firstly I've sorted out the flat spot which I did by fixing a nipple on a diaphragm and it now seems ok.

Also have given the idle control valve a clean out as it had been playing up on idle and I will see how it behaves now as it doesn't always play up.

And as for the stop light it is now bulb less. For the time being till I get the motivation to have another go at trying to sort it out.

A few pic of the car at the moment







Need to give it a wash tomorrow ready for the RR meet on Saturday. Really interested in what it is going make. I duno what to expect really. All standard apart from de cat and stainless exhaust system. What do you guys think it will make on the rollers?

[sam]

Yeah mate defo needs a clean haha mine is in need of one sooooo bad, hopefully youll make 150

[Frosty]

Yeah mate defo needs a clean haha mine is in need of one sooooo bad, hopefully youll make 150

Yeah defo needs 1. I would be happy with 150 as it is pretty old and done over 120000 miles.

[sam]

To be honest for the age of the pug thats not bad millage though dude

[Frosty]

To be honest for the age of the pug thats not bad millage though dude

Yeah not to bad really. I don't think there is many 306s out there with below 100000 on the clock these days

[sam]

Mines just hit 68k low miles ftw haha

[rocker8742]

Feck that reminds me ill need to wash the car before Saturday

[Frosty]

Mines just hit 68k low miles ftw haha

That is bloody low. When I got my d turbo it was on 94000 and I fort that was low

[sam]

Yep was a good find tbh found an xantia dt engine with 33k which I really want though

[Frosty]

Now that is low milage. That ain't even run it!!

[ozonehostile]

i spent £40 refilling my polishing kit in preparation for saturday meet haha

[Frosty]

I like my car when it's dirty cuz it's harder to see all the bad bits of body work lol

[Frosty]

Went to the rolling road meet today and got it on the rollers and come home with a smile on my face after it made 159.6bhp.



Really happy with that as I was only expecting about 150bhp and the only things its had done to it is de cat and stainless cat back system.

A few pics I got