gunna
Daily Driver
Hi everyone who looked at my 1984 restoration project from last year, it's been a very long time since I've posted as work commitments were crazy toward the back end of last year thing didn't move on anywhere near to what they should of. Things have only managed to move on in the last few months as we had the unit my car is in completely full up and I was waiting to get it back onto its wheels
Here's what has been happening in the engine bay department, there's a Charge Cooler, new Expansion Tank and Water Injection, That's what I was doing whist waiting for space.
Finally back on its wheels
Once back on its wheels the fun began with some finale wiring up, checking then checking again only to find I had no spark and no injectors firing, spent several nights scratching my head before calling in my mate to have a look and all my wiring checked out so I thought maybe the decoded chip i got might not of actually been decoded so contacted the supplier and he double checked and the chip was definitely correct, bugger!.
It was actually the ECU I got with my engine, on close examination there was signs that one of the chips had got hot at some point in the past so another ECU was purchased.
After that I had to work out with 3 different wiring diagrams that all contradict each other how the fuel relay was actually meant to work as i'd cheated before to get it to work and as it happens that's exactly what was needed as it is normally turned on via the alarm.
Tried to fire her up Monday night and it wouldn't start everything looked good, oil pressure built up fine before I added fuel everything was looking great good spark, injectors clicking churned her over NOTHING DAM!, only thing it could be no fuel getting through so checked and was correct, I had to take Charge Cooler out of the way to take pump out of the tank, turns out that the supplied plug had the terminals backward and I never spotted it, fancy black wires being positive!
All put back together and the result a first fire up, died then on second try it struck up and revs dropped off slightly before idling fine. I videoed it but at the moment cant upload it, I will do a code test tomorrow to see what faults are thrown up if any.
Now I need to do some cleaning up in the old girl there's so much dirt accumulated with all the work that has been done.
Sorry it's been so long I was hoping to of been driving it around finished this year but in reality I think it will be spring time next year when it gets its first M.O.T for a great many years.
Here's what has been happening in the engine bay department, there's a Charge Cooler, new Expansion Tank and Water Injection, That's what I was doing whist waiting for space.
Finally back on its wheels
Once back on its wheels the fun began with some finale wiring up, checking then checking again only to find I had no spark and no injectors firing, spent several nights scratching my head before calling in my mate to have a look and all my wiring checked out so I thought maybe the decoded chip i got might not of actually been decoded so contacted the supplier and he double checked and the chip was definitely correct, bugger!.
It was actually the ECU I got with my engine, on close examination there was signs that one of the chips had got hot at some point in the past so another ECU was purchased.
After that I had to work out with 3 different wiring diagrams that all contradict each other how the fuel relay was actually meant to work as i'd cheated before to get it to work and as it happens that's exactly what was needed as it is normally turned on via the alarm.
Tried to fire her up Monday night and it wouldn't start everything looked good, oil pressure built up fine before I added fuel everything was looking great good spark, injectors clicking churned her over NOTHING DAM!, only thing it could be no fuel getting through so checked and was correct, I had to take Charge Cooler out of the way to take pump out of the tank, turns out that the supplied plug had the terminals backward and I never spotted it, fancy black wires being positive!
All put back together and the result a first fire up, died then on second try it struck up and revs dropped off slightly before idling fine. I videoed it but at the moment cant upload it, I will do a code test tomorrow to see what faults are thrown up if any.
Now I need to do some cleaning up in the old girl there's so much dirt accumulated with all the work that has been done.
Sorry it's been so long I was hoping to of been driving it around finished this year but in reality I think it will be spring time next year when it gets its first M.O.T for a great many years.
