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Old May 27, 2007 | 01:17 PM
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can you help just got a 3door cosworth and it was puling well with 20psi then it startid runing out of fuel so drove to fuel staition put 56 pound in super unledid but it still felt like it was out so drained it out put unledid in stil did it tryd new plugs leads dizy cap and arm ignition amp box coil fuel pumpand filter drove up the road the boost came in good 2 or 3 times then it startid doing it again what could it be???????
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Old May 27, 2007 | 01:20 PM
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try fittin a grp a coil
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Old May 27, 2007 | 09:04 PM
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Plug gaps mate if stg 3 (330 bhp) set um at 0.6mm

DO NOT run on 95 unleaded u will kill it

Or as above the coil could be failing once hot...
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Old May 27, 2007 | 11:30 PM
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il try this 2moz thanks for the help il let you kno if it works
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Old May 28, 2007 | 01:20 PM
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when u changed your dizzy cap etc did u check your phase sensor wiring etc?
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Old May 29, 2007 | 09:58 AM
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what i dont get?? is that it was fine for 30mins when i pick the car up boost came in loads of times.. but now wen it is cold it cuts in 1 or 2 times then and wen it comes in it goes on to 3 but then wen not on boost runs on all 4 and runs nice?????????????? the dizzy wiring look all good and plug gaps are all good cant get hold of a grp a coil as of yet but it was fine wen i got the car til it ran out of fuel? :?
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Old May 29, 2007 | 10:06 AM
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could it be a bit of shit in an injector?
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Old May 29, 2007 | 12:09 PM
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after all this just put 2nd set of new plugs in and now its sortid so the first set wer duds weird a.thank you all for your help tho.
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