well just went out to pick 2 mates up from football,started driving up the road,gave it some in 2nd,then went to 3rd,put my foot down,and bang!a big flame out the exhaust!so started to slow down to plull down a side road,started to gave it a little gas then the second bang!and an even bigger flame!!!


a lad saw it who was on his bike and said the second flame was like 4 foot long lol scared the shit of him!

anyway,so by this time the car had died on my and nothing was there,so got battary pack out,it tried to turn over,but just couldnt,so we bump started it,and it ran for about 30 seconds then died again.


bit gutted actually,as today was the 1st time its ran properly since i had it,


what do people think it could be? its going into work tomorrow,but would be good if anyone knew where we should start looking?

think its time to build me an engine

cheers

 

What makes you think it's the engine?

Sounds like an electrical fault to me...

 

dunno,seeing the flames i guess,but saying that my starter motor and altenator have been giving me problems the last few days,could it be linked to that?

 

Sounds not to healthy!

 

with Daz, doubt it's serious.

 

Flames can be down to a fucked dizzy giving random sparks. A new engine won't cure that!

I'd try and get it running before you strip the engine down to be honest.

 

cheers for that mate

 

It might not just be the dizzy! I was giving that as an example!

Get the car running before you pull it apart even if you're planning to do the engine anyway otherwise when you put it all back together, you will still have a car that won't start but with a wallet a few Ł lighter!!

 

cheers mate,will get it running and see whats what,i was hoping for it to last untill november but never mind!

 

What car is it? RST presumably?

 

Check large multiplug where loom plugs into Ecu

 

firs check if there are sparks on spark plugs
Same thing happened to my nissan s13 it was the crank sensor ...
Big flames, car won't start or run 20s and died

fews month after, same thing when i was starting the car, but it was the pistons rings

 

well got it started yesterday,found out it was the old immob,well had something to do with that anyway!but no the altenator has fucked up,wont put any charge into the battary,wheres the best place to get one?can you still get them new?

 

Take yours to be refurbed.

 

As Daz said, its usually only the brushes and/or diode packs that break down in alternators.

Yours could be fixed for as little as Ł20

 

sweet ill do that then!cheers fellas

 

can i get my wiring loom reconditioned or is that a stupid question?

 

hmmmmmmmm, not really. Why do you ask that?

 

well got a new altenator on it now,and its running sweet as,aprt from the battary light is still on,and the starter motor could do with replacing,dunno wether or not to wait tll her rebuild or not though,but at least she now runs,cheers to everyone for helping

 

Check that little blue wire going to the alternator

If the battery light is on 99.9% of the time the battery isn't being charged.... so don't get relying on the car until you've sorted it.