Team Green 16V

[Jmac]

Quickly give it an earth with a set of jump leads and see if it helps first incase it is something else, at least then you will quickly know without waiting to see if it is to have no result. Most likely will be a bad earth but good set of jumpers will soon verify that. You could also use a current clamp to see what the starter was drawing whilst trying to crank too and at the same time making sure you have 12v at the solenoid when doing so.
Cheers
Jmac
ps must be a parts fairy robbing all these bits.

[Golf Loon]

I'd say if the earth has been missing since it came back from interstate that was why it was hard to start at your shop too.

While I have your attention Matt - do you know what cam is in the car? I was guessing it was a standard 16V one, but not too sure.

Yeah we jumped it a few times.
I thinkit has the KR Cams, but may be running an exhaust cam as an intake too, for more agressive power. Cant remember it was a while ago.

[mikinoz]

Thanks everyone. I am off today to buy some jumper leads then to test and then arrange for an earth strap if it works any better. The battery has 540CCA so I am pretty sure that it will cope.

In a little while I am thinking of taking the intake off to clean it inside and out and at that time I will possibly pull the rocker cover off to see if the cams can be easily identified. I am not sure how hard that is to do without disassembly.

Really starting to enjoy the car more.

[mikinoz]

So I added the jumper leads directly on to the starter from the neg terminal and it did nothing.

Here is what she sounds like, and also did with the other starter that was originally on it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0vZ1LuLXfs

Here is the wiring;



I'll try another battery.

What is the deal when the alternator light does not light up on the dash at all any more?

[abreut]

Thats a really nice earth setup you have there, I might have to do something like that on mine.

[Jmac]

That really then rules out the earthing problem mate, have the battery drop tested but if in doubt chuck it out
Jmac

[mikinoz]

So here is an update.

The non starting issue has had the following diagnosis;

Remove 1 spark plug, car winds over intermittently more frequently than with it in
Remove 2 spark plug, car winds over slowly
Remove 3 spark plug, car winds over as it should.

Not sure what this is telling me.

I had a return line from the accumulator to the tank fall off with a full tank of fuel on Friday. Luckily I have small hands and managed to jack the car up last night and re fit the hose without needing to drop the fuel tank. I will be keeping an eye on it.

Other tasks included, removing the rear seat and sealing the inspection port for the pump so I get less fumes in the cabin.

So I continued on the fuel theme and adjusted the fuel pressure down from 3 to 2.5 BAR. The car is more responsive and less fumes - idles steadily too. It has a stutter/miss/fuel issue at about 5-5.5K but then overcomes it and pulls to 6800 (and makes a mad racket at that point).

Sounds like I may have a RHS ball joint coming on, the noise over speedbumps is increasingly concerning.

I installed a replacement dash light in the MKII cluster, I can see the speedo at night now.

Got a MKII heater controller and that is great. I am now missing the control sliders (the bits that you touch when you slide that clip in through the fascia). At least I can turn the heat off now from inside the car.

The boot liner was wet, seems I have not sorted the leaks from the tail lights yet.

All in all I feel it was a successful weekend.

[mikinoz]

Tonight I installed my DigiFast 2 chip and took it for a good thrashing around the block.

First impressions are that the car has decreased lag, before it was almost turbo-esque, but now although the the lack of power is still there, at least it was linear.

Bit rough on idle, but still have a coolant sensor, idle control screw seals and possibly an oxy sensor for that. It was better before the chip.

The US$50 was well spent!

[mikinoz]

It was inevitable, and it has happened now.



Need to attend to the situation whereby we have some rubbing, other than that I am pretty chuffed.

Now to fix the other list of things, and I'll be stoked.

[dub1]

looks the goods man!

still pretty stealth