Hmm, that car looks familiar ! lol
Certainly was a interesting day ! having 5th gear on the 2nd roadtest was novel ha ha
It goes rather well, I'm sure I can still hear the box whining now
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Hmm, that car looks familiar ! lol
Certainly was a interesting day ! having 5th gear on the 2nd roadtest was novel ha ha
It goes rather well, I'm sure I can still hear the box whining now
Good to see fitting went well.
Mapping next week then?
Great work guys, Certainly one of the best track nova's around at the moment :D
Cheers Adam, yeh - fitting went quite well apart from some dodgy wiring, which I still claim is sh*t hot! lol Basically the injection fuel pump had stopped working which prevented it from starting, when I went to remove the fuel pump panel to check the fuse - it started working again... hmmm...
Upon starting there was a slightly tapping which I thought was a hydraulic follower as we hadn't emptied them, but we thougth it was something else.
Did a compression test there and then, and I think JB said it came back as 8/9/9/7, which wasn't great, so contemplated leaving the car with JB to whip the head off.
After much deliberation and calls to the misses because I'd let her down to go out for a meal (again), we decided that I'd drive it home (75miles) and just see what goes.
Anyway, with straight cut box, doing 70mph is like 4.8krpm, so to make any time up whatsoever I was constantly in the 5.5krpms all the way home, with the odd blat up to 7.5krpm in 5th to see what TomTom says.
Got about ten miles in on the A14, when the car died..... a very p*ssed off call to JB saying that I think it'd given up... but then it dawned on me... petrol! lol JB came to save me with a jerry can - thanks again - and my dodgy fuel gauge was still reading half full :mad:
Got the the Shell station, and it took a further 37litres, ontop of the 6 we'd put in just before, and the gauge then read 1/4 full... "somethingz a miss, me thinkz"... ggrrrrr
Anyway, plan was for JB to come over to mine today to remove the rocker, cams and empty the followers to see if that got us compression back, but before I started to take it to bits, I went and got a compression tester from Halfords, and did another test after it'd had a damn good hammering last night...
The results, I think, are pretty damn stable across the board... pics here:
CYL #1 = 180psi / 12.4 bar
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc0609.jpg
CYL #2 = 184psi / 12.7 bar
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc0610.jpg
CYL #3 = 192psi / 13.2 bar
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc0611.jpg
CYL #4 = 180psi / 12.4 bar
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc0612.jpg
So all is well in the land of Ollys engine now lol I'm well chuffed.
So in short Adam - yes, still on for Fridays mapping session! lol
Keitho - cheers chappy, just hope I can do it justice out on track :)
LMAO @ the fuel gauge going down when you put fuel in. lol
Sender must be fcuked?
Ol your such a picture whore! lol lol
Good work lad, glad it's going well, im looking forward to getting behind the wheel of mine, but i need more money! and the tax mans looming over my shoulder!
Scott
Nice work olly & JB :cool:
nice1 mate glad all is fine
Did you do it with all plugs out and the throttle(s) wide open?
160-200psi is considered normal as far as i know.
Whats usually more worrying is the difference between cylinders. So yours sounds fine.
Mine was 192/192/189/187 dude so yours sounds about right:)