Well, it runs!

We got it running on Friday night but we struggled to get it to fire up. Then we got it to start but then it would only run for a few seconds before it cut out.

I pushed the car back in the garage as I lost the daylight so just went home happy but cheesed off at the same time. Happy that the engine sounds sweet (nice one Tony! ) but cheesed off about the running fault.

Went back the next morning armed with a fresh head, loads more fuel in case it was the fuel level causing the problem and some helpful advice from Tony.

Dumped another 20 litres of fuel in it - no difference.

Started checking sensor voltages at the ECU.

TPS working as it should so went to check MAP sensor voltage at ECU. 0.2 volts with ignition on and reading not changing when sucking on the pipe. BINGO! Unbolted the map sensor and had a bit of a fiddle about and got it to read 1.5v with ignition on changing to about 0.3-0.4v when sucking on the pipe.

Cranked the engine over and it burst into life and ran sweet as a nut and revved up as it should!

Gave its first few minutes running as Tony advised me and it's all good on the engine front so far! I had my heart in my mouth when I first fired it up due to the problems I had last year but I needn't have worried! So relieved now!

The brakes on the other hand are giving me a headache now as I can't get them to bleed but doing a few wiring checks and stuff has led me to diagnose the brake pump as being buggered so got to get another one of those now which shouldn't be too bad!

So happy it's finally on its way!

Big thanks to Ade and Tony for their helping me get it all sorted as well!