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[The Batman]

some heavy duty velcro got my looking at the new androids now :beat:i got an upgrade in 6 weeks...

[techieboy]

[The Batman]

awesome save me my £80 excess i have to pay every other month well i have taken the car out to fill it up ouch.. anyway.. i have my whine which is good however fueling seems to be a bit out which i expected 6 speed is very very cool IAT's WILL be a problem i gurantee. time to take my water meth kit out of the van then i think

[turbobob]

My TB senses are tingling. Do I sense a disturbance in the force? Is Joe really thinking of leaving his Apple device???

[The Batman]

very annoying day today... set off very early this morning to go to courtenays and half way there the i felt difference in the engine loads of pops and bangs and very jerky and throttle control was terrible... then looked at AFR guage to notice it was at 10.0 rediculously rich... so tried to reset the ecu to no avail

idle was also 10.0 with no error codes?! which i found very very strange

anyway a HUGE bill later and the car is back on my drive then vocky popped round to listen to the engine and it sounds sweet but we took the cam cover off to check the valve springs where still OK of which they where and engine sounds sweet...

so we then come to the conclusion that the exhaust was blowing so if it was blowing before the first lambda sensor then this would be sucking in oxygen and the ecu would be flooding the engine to try and correct the AFR. To be honest i am hoping this is the case

started taking the rear clam off but my manager asked me to do him a favour so have been running round after him but good news is i now have a very happy manager! anyways will crack back on with taking the rear clam off now. just wanted to update this for you all to know what is going on.

I am highly gutted and probably pissed Jon and CMS off as i missed my dyno slot

here is a photo of the wounded beast



but

god i did a good job on those rear cut outs

[AliM]

unlike this, hope it's something simple Joe.

[Seb.F]

That's a little bit annoying, any ETA on when the next slot is?

[The Batman]

i will ring Jon monday once i can confirm the problem and rectify it. Then i will pester some people to borrow a trailor and possibly a tow vehicle to see when the next slot is available that i can combine alot of forces and get the car towed to courtenays so that dyno work can be completed so thats that out of the way and then any further issues can be delt at my end saying that i did get AA relay membership

[Nev]

Ug. Good luck Joe. Proably something simple, like a sensor not working, though without an ECU code to give you a clue I guess you'll have to start swapping parts in and out till you guess the right one

[The Batman]

cheers bud, im hoping its a exhaust manifold leak as this would draw in the o2 and give misleading info to lambda 1 making it over fuel but as you say its very anoying that there is no code anyway to cheer me up i started dremeling the rear clam today

Edited by joe_589, 20 January 2012 - 06:13 PM.

[ChrisS1]

What a shitter! At least youve got Vockgod on hand to help diagnose...if he can't sort it no one can. Have some Murray mint vodka to cheer yourself up...or think of how bored I will be swimming 200 lengths of a poxy pool!

[The Batman]

im off to work this weekend and next need to make some money... SKINT!!

[alanoo]

A lambda related issue will go away normally for some time with an ECU reset no ? How is the car working at idle ? Last one I saw with that kind of weird symptoms had a smallish inlet leak which compromised the vacuum/idle/low throttle situations messing up with the MAP sensor readings.

[The Batman]

idles fine... this didnt go away with a ecu reset though... but an intake leak gives me something more to look at

[alanoo]

Not compatible with a fine idle

[The Batman]

it sounds fine but is running 10.0 on idle the engine sounds sweet though which is the main thing

[alanoo]

does it smell fuel and is the AFR moving on the gauge ? I don't trust cheap AFR gauges now...

[NickB787]

I need to get my far gauge set up it could have been expensive if you hadn't had that

Edited by NickB777, 20 January 2012 - 07:13 PM.

[The Batman]

it wasnt that cheap just shy of £200! it stinks of fuel yup the AFR moves on the guage however always settles at 10,0

[techieboy]

Does it need to be recalibrated in fresh air? Might be worth trying that, if it's one of those type.