Well as some of you might know, about 3 weeks back i gave up on my 3dr and booked it into REYLAND which it goes in on tusday. Well i was down at a brakers yard today sorting some stuff for my focos build when a focus came in to be broke! Well i just could not help myself i just had to have the coil pack off it for £10 . When i got home i thought i would just see if it was this that was making the car back fire all the time so on it went and i went for a spin. It was 100% spot on so i fort time for the boost to go up a bit and as the tools were out. We put all covers back on and down the road we went... well it was as bad as ever . Back fireing like mad so we turned the boost down.... still the same shit so i thought to myself what have you done to it now to what it was like 30min before? To which i said we have put the covers on that covers the coil pack and leads! So off they came and the coil pack was put inside the motor bay and the leads were just hanging all over the motor. Off i went down the road .... Spot on ,so the boost went up a bit still ok ,the boost up a bit more still ok ,so it went up to 28psi and its still spot on!!! It turns out its the leads being so tight togever as the coil pack was beside the heater motor out of sight but very tight. Its now by the battery and running spot on. This back fire problem has been doing my head in for about 5 months now so to say im very happy is a understatement as the list of stuff i have swapped on the car is silly and runs into hundreds of pounds. So it will be nice for it to go to REYLAND and be running nice before martin starts work on it! We will just have see what martin can do with the car now

 

Christ, do you hate the "return" button on your keyboard?!

Good result

 

Glad its sorted at last Colsey, I was close with an ignition fault

 

Sorry for the way i put it down on here but i've got Dyslexia

and thanks

 

Glad it's sorted mate. Often simple things like that are the hardest to diagnose, more often than not they are found purely by chance as yours was..

 

Thanks mate

Yes mate you were close . It was only by luck we found it but we did in the end

 

lol

glad you got it sorted fella,

beef

 

Tell me about it .....about 2 weeks back we had the car running in the garage in the dark to see if they were sparking but all was ok so thought it was ok.

 

Thanks mate you and me both. You never know it might go up the strip next weekend

 

That's one of the most common sense things my dad taught me many years ago to find sparks arcing in the dark. You could look for obvious electrical faults all day long in daylight and never find them but once you look in the dark they are virtually jumping out at you. It's surprising how many people don't know this simple trick.

 

Some good news for you at last

Hope all goes well at Martins on Tuesday

See you on the PF Stand at Central Day

Steve

 

thanks steve its been a long time coming getting it running right see on the stand mate

 

glad its all sorted.

 

glad you got it sorted mate....sounded a night mare at first for you.

 

thanks mate its so nice to have it running nice after all this time . it started about november last year so you can see it has done my head in . this is the list of stuff i have put on the car to try and find it

Plugs x 5 sets.........at just about very gap size
TP sensor
MAP sensor
AIR TEMP sensor
the blue sensor
Phaze sensor x2
Crank sencor
044 pump
New fuel fillter
Tank off to be checked
Pump rewire
STACK AFG to set the fueling up
oil change as the fuel was going it from the miss fire x 2
all the wires tested and retested
new crank pulley
Coil pack x 2
Fuel reg x 2
Injectors
Chip

ADD THAT LOT UP AND YOU WILL SEE HOW MUCH IV SPENT FINDING THIS FULT

 

glad to see you finally fixed it ian ill have to catch up with you sunday & have a good nose around your car at central

 

Nice fix m8.

 

 

thanks mate it will be nice to cach up it should all be set up and maped for sunday

 

its all ways some fing you dont thing it could be it did my head in

 

Tell me about it

 

You selling these 044!

 

No sorry mate all the spare parts will be put aside for my focos build and the bosch 044 pump went on as it turned out the one on the car was of a RS turbo and not up to the job

 

fucking hell mate u have been trying 2 sort it for ages glad its fixed now get out and enjoy it!

 

trust me im going to mate

 

So the misfire was caused by the leads being too close together??

 

Thats how i read it

Steve

 

yes mate it seams that way

 

It's mad how these things go but i'm glad your all sorted

 

im glad you have got it sorted fella. There is nothing worse than having a fault on your car and you cant find it. I bet you have been sitting at home on a night thinking what it could be through your head.

 

i bet the lead tops are arcing on that crap chrome cover you have on, more than the leads being close together.

 

Would make sense that markk, or arcing on the bulkhead cut-out if that's metal? Other thing I would change is the actuator for a genuine garrett one, Stu put up a very good post explaining why, I will have a look through for it.

 

tell me about it mate

 

hi mate the cover has not been on the car sins xmass as the amout of plugs that we have put in it and it still had the problem it must be down to the way the leads went throw the bulk head . the cover is back on now but the coil pack is now by the battery and working very good so im now happy . just got to see wot martin can now do with it