Thanks Roos,


Found an interesting area to improve today and potentially could have been terminal.


I reversed the car out of the garage and parked in front of the house, turned off the engine and went to get my daughters school bags. We got back in and turned the starter to get it started and just got a clicking as if the battery was flat...then noticed smoke! I assumed this was a knackered starter motor and I have a spare. So left the car there.


At lunch I rocked the car whilst in gear and tried again whilst my mate watched...he said that smoke and sparks were NOT coming from the starter but higher up on the engine.


SO, I got him to crank whilst I watched...scarily the braided fuel line ws sparking against the boost pressure sensor on the Hart inlet and was burning the braiding and smelt of fuel....I will need to strip it but think at the moment that the braiding has chafed against the live on the starter and now the fuel line braiding has become live on cranking....


All will come off and I will order the billet fuel rail I have been planning to fit for ages and make neat new runs under the car with solid fuel lines and new connectors.