Just finishing rebuilding my S2 RST, and just got a niggling problem. The car will start first time, but will NOT stay running no matter what you do. It just starts then immediately stops. Im not sh*t hot with these RST's, but have found a few issues! I have put a brand new fuel pump on which is working correctly, and changed the fuel relay.

Then got underneath her to check all wiring etc and found the following................

1) There is a unit on the gearbox that the speedo cable comes from, it also has a wiring plug that is not plugged into anything?!? And there is nothing nearby to plug it into. The 3 wires are: yellow/brown, black/brown, and brown.

2) There are two wires that come next to the metering unit. (all plugs are connected to the metering unit, so it isnt anything there). According to the wiring diagram, it should be connected to the wastegate solenoid. But where the haynes manual says it is, it isnt! (its supposed to be under the dizzy)

3) Underneath the car - the knock sensor cable and the sensor itself are just hanging down doing nothing

4) The car has Defi gauges fitted. Where the oil feed for the turbo comes out next to the oil filter, there is a metal block that has the wires for the defi gauages coming ot of it. It has only one wire from the cars loom connected to the bottom of it (green/brown)

5) There is a temp sensor and its wires also hanging down behind the engine. The wires to this are brown/green and brown.

Looking round and there doesnt seem to be anything that isnt plugged in, nothing obvious to me that seems out of place. The auxilliary air device is plugged in.

The thing baffling me is the wires that apparently are supposed to go to the wastegate solenoid?!? Yet its not there?

The block is indeed a 1.6, the car does have some form of uprated actuator.