11-05-2012, 07:28 PM
It's alive! (no thanks to me 
)
Spent the best part of today trying to get the engine ticking over. Got the loom all sorted and went to fire it up.. nothing. Flat battery despite being on charge overnight. Me thinks the charger is goosed...
So the trusty work Transit came onto the scene, thank god for "free" fuel. Left it running to give the battery a kick. Pulled off the injector lines to check for flow and... nothing.
Quick call to Dan and he suggested I get the voltmeter out and check the stop solenoid. realised I had a loose connection so re-crimped it and bang, 12v. Turned it over again and.. nothing.
Pulled off the fuel lines and swapped them round, because i'm an idiot like that. And what happened? Fired up almost immediately. But then it would chug to a halt especially if any throttle was tried. Hmm.
More fecking about with advance, injector unions, all sorts, and then I checked something on here. My own thread asking about connections on the pump. And those fuel lines i'd been intelligent enough to swap around? Yeah, I put them on the wrong way. Which explains why the fuel grenade was blown off the fuel line, fuel was trying to go the wrong way. In my infinite wisdom it would seem I had them the right way round and must have just cleared an air lock by the time I decided to swap them round. It would burst into life for a few seconds while it used what was in the line, then die again.
Rule number one about building a car: don't be a spastic and READ YOUR OWN THREADS.
/rant
Anyway it sounds to be running sweet. Yet to tap the boost gauge in and still needs coolant, PAS fluid and a couple of other things but it's nearly done!
)Spent the best part of today trying to get the engine ticking over. Got the loom all sorted and went to fire it up.. nothing. Flat battery despite being on charge overnight. Me thinks the charger is goosed...
So the trusty work Transit came onto the scene, thank god for "free" fuel. Left it running to give the battery a kick. Pulled off the injector lines to check for flow and... nothing.
Quick call to Dan and he suggested I get the voltmeter out and check the stop solenoid. realised I had a loose connection so re-crimped it and bang, 12v. Turned it over again and.. nothing.
Pulled off the fuel lines and swapped them round, because i'm an idiot like that. And what happened? Fired up almost immediately. But then it would chug to a halt especially if any throttle was tried. Hmm.
More fecking about with advance, injector unions, all sorts, and then I checked something on here. My own thread asking about connections on the pump. And those fuel lines i'd been intelligent enough to swap around? Yeah, I put them on the wrong way. Which explains why the fuel grenade was blown off the fuel line, fuel was trying to go the wrong way. In my infinite wisdom it would seem I had them the right way round and must have just cleared an air lock by the time I decided to swap them round. It would burst into life for a few seconds while it used what was in the line, then die again.
Rule number one about building a car: don't be a spastic and READ YOUR OWN THREADS.
/rant
Anyway it sounds to be running sweet. Yet to tap the boost gauge in and still needs coolant, PAS fluid and a couple of other things but it's nearly done!
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