Originally Posted by
j.hammond1
Good and bad news, car is now running with no misfire. However, it is occasionally running lean now and the garage reckon it could either be map sensor or ECU.
I'm running a level 1 Ahmed Bayjoo chip with 18 psi boost and just been looking through my folder of receipts and found out a previous owner bought a 3 bar map sensor. I'm pretty sure a stage 1 is supposed to be a 2 bar but as the car was running fine when I bought it so I'm not sure whether I should be putting in a 2 or 3 bar sensor.
The car has apparently had a 3 bar map sensor in it since 2011 (haven't checked its actually in the car) so I would have thought the car would have run badly when I bought it, not just started playing up now if it wasn't set up for a 3 bar.
Any advise would be much appreciated.
A while back my 2wd started playing up, would not idle, kept cutting out when I stopped at traffic lights etc. It was a knackered 3 bar map sensor, put a new one on and it fixed it straight away.
I have had a new engine, fans and fuel pump wiring loom and wasted spark ignition plus all new sensors and it runs like a dream.
Old original wiring looms are are source of a lot of problems on Sapphires.
I have had mine for 21 years and things do wear out just like they do on any other car. I realise it all costs money but you can "modernise" a Sapphire and build reliability into it.