A busy couple of weeks
Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 9:02 pm
A busy couple of weeks with the Janspeed Sierra. Started with changing the plugs and adjusting the fueling. Only to find that the fuel metering unit was faulty. Luckily we had a spare with one of our other engines so decided to changeit.
New one next to the old.
All fitted decided to take the car for a little test drive. Less than a mile from my house and the car cut out. Worse still i didn't have my mobile with me so i had to sit there and wait for Alan to realise that something had gone wrong and to come and find me. 10 minutes later he turned up and we towed the car back home.
Afer checking everything over we found that the fuel pump was not working.
Caused by this a melted relay
After getting this sorted the fueling on the car was now out so it was off to get the car set up again. Came back all happy as the torgue was again up on the car. Decided to take it for a road test and as Alan accelerated up the slip road onto the motorway we heard a load popping sound followed up a whoosh sound
. A quick glance at the boost gauge told me that we had lost all boost. Not good, my first thoughts were that we had either blown the turbo or hopefully just blown a pipe off somewhere. We managed to limp the car home and started our investigation ny torch light. 10 minutes into the investigation and this is what we found.
We had blown an intercooler pipe off the turbo
Re-fitted it the next day with a longer piece of samco, and yes we again took it out for a road test. She ran sweeeeeet :-D
New one next to the old.
All fitted decided to take the car for a little test drive. Less than a mile from my house and the car cut out. Worse still i didn't have my mobile with me so i had to sit there and wait for Alan to realise that something had gone wrong and to come and find me. 10 minutes later he turned up and we towed the car back home.
Afer checking everything over we found that the fuel pump was not working.
Caused by this a melted relay
After getting this sorted the fueling on the car was now out so it was off to get the car set up again. Came back all happy as the torgue was again up on the car. Decided to take it for a road test and as Alan accelerated up the slip road onto the motorway we heard a load popping sound followed up a whoosh sound
. A quick glance at the boost gauge told me that we had lost all boost. Not good, my first thoughts were that we had either blown the turbo or hopefully just blown a pipe off somewhere. We managed to limp the car home and started our investigation ny torch light. 10 minutes into the investigation and this is what we found.We had blown an intercooler pipe off the turbo
Re-fitted it the next day with a longer piece of samco, and yes we again took it out for a road test. She ran sweeeeeet :-D
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