Good news


After finally getting the loom sorted and feeding it through the bulkhead so the Ecu's and relays are inside the car, plummed everything in, made brackets for rad and intercooler.

basically The Mk1 was ready to fire up

well the fooker turned over, but wouldnt fire, hmmm whittled it down to a very weak / no spark. shitter..

the loom was a bit of a nightmare when we got the car due to the previous butcher, and we just put wires where we could remember them being, and we weren't getting a propper feed to the coil.

after much head scratching and wire swapping, it still wouldnt spark although we had followed the rs turbo wiring diagrams in the haynes (although some of the wires are a different colour for some bizzarre reason which pooed things up a bit.

then I remembered that i had spotted wiring help on A11 XRT a few years ago... off to set my mates pc up as he is decorating and it was tucked away in a cupboard. only to discover that i couldnt find the A11 XRT website, but luckily remembered a link from Retrofiesta so popped on there and read the wiring help to the letter.


JOB DONE , plenty of sparky goodness

all plugged back together and it still wouldnt fire pisser.


had an idea of towing it to get a bit of compression into the engine as we don't know how long it hasn't run for.

towed it all of 5 yards in 1st gear and the fooker burst into life , smoked its tits off for a second then idled perfectly, although it was noisy as fook due to it only having 1/4 of an exhaust on it at the moment .

sounded like a turbo'd V8


THANKS FOR THE INFO ON THE SITE LADS, its REALLY helped us and made my day

so thats one more MK1 XR2 turbo on the road , just a bit of tidying and a few more jobs to do then its MOT time then PLENTY of fun for summer


Cant fookin wait

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