After being let down the local lad who was supposed to match my clocks and keys to the donor custom remapped ECU I was forced to whip the parts back out and post them back to the northern auto electrician wizard AR Ditta to resprinkle another layer of his magic on my bits!
All plugged back in during my lunch break yesterday and fired up straight away - very happy.
Not so happy bits:
Idle seemed a bit high and slightly unstable, even after the warm up period.
Revs were definitely hanging quite badly especially when giving it quick blips of the throttle.
I've discovered a small coolant leak from a hose above the gearbox.
The end of the hose appears damaged beneath the clamp which im annoyed i hadn't spotted but fortunately I have a spare here so will have to drain my nice fresh pink coolant out again FFS
After an evening of dwelling over the idle issues and poxy hanging revs I nipped back over to the barn for half an hour today to hook up the laptop.
A million flashing dash lights but no engine fault codes as such so a throttle body reset was done.
This immediately brought the idle speed down to a more acceptable pace and I think may have cured the delay and hanging BUT the idle is quite noticeably rougher at the
lower RPM so obviously haven't got to the bottom of this
problem yet.
On shutting the engine down im pretty sure I can hear a hissing on the drivers side so maybe there's an air leak somewhere down there?
What has literally just dawned on me whilst typing this out though is the fact I still have the same half a tank of unleaded petrol that I stuck in the car when it blew up last August so I can't imagine that's exactly ideal.
I think the next step is drain the tank, replace the fuel filter and refill with some premium fuel.
I'm also going to regap the spark plugs as after checking the other day I may have them a bit wide for the engine spec?
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