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Well guys today was just not ment to happen I don't think.

All was ready this morning, Ryan called me bright and early. He had allocated me an hour of time as he had builders going round the house to help extend the garage.

issue number 1 - kept loosing Internet connection. Which took about 15 mins to sort.

 

Issue number 2 - my laptop packed up. Luckly Ben had his so we hooked that up which took another 10mins.

 

Issue number 3 - on 1st crank, nothing apart from smoke from the intake side. Inverstigating led to the oil level wire had melted. This was my own stupid fault really. When I earthed the engine to the chassis, I didn't rub down the paint to bare metal so the earth was poor and it melted the wiring at the plug. Rubbing this down and sorting it and cranked again.

 

Issue 4 - blew a fuse to the starter, which had to be changed.

 

By the time all this was sorted my allocated hour had came and gone and Ryans builders had arrived.

With Ben on the case with the base map we did eventually get it fired and ran for about ten mins. Ryan called back between lifting garage doors and steel beams to lend a hand again.

 

After the car was turned off we had a nightmare keeping it running. The Syvecs was showing a can sensor error which eventually cleared itself. Even after that we couldn't get a smooth idle.

 

Whilst we did have the car running I did get a chance to look for leaks etc and had none at all which I'm pleased about. But apart from that it was a pretty shithouse of a day really.

I really need to speak to Ryan in depth about it all when he has some free time.

 

HUGE, HUGE, HUGE thanks to Ben (UGP) for all his help over the last couple of days. If have Been totally clueless without his help. Thanks mate.

 

So all in all GUTTED. Shit day and shit results.

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Gutted for you mate, I must admit I was wondering why there hadn't been an update. I was thinking that it wasn't going all to plan hence maybe taking all day to play with it.

 

At least she fires mate, onwards and upwards. It's just a blip :)

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Mate, let's put this into perspective.

- Self build

- Very innovative

- Multiple rehousing of stock items

- Massive injectors

- Complicated ECU

 

You got it running! It's not 100%, but I'll tell you something, that's a hell of an achievment for you in my book. Small amount of work will have that running MINT.

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Honestly guys Ben was a total legend, I'd have been stuck without him.

I seriously owe you 1 mate.

 

Once I have a chat with Ryan, I'm sure everything will get sorted. Was pissed right off by the time I came out the garage tonight. Had a hot shower n going to spend the night with the missus.

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Mate, let's put this into perspective.

- Self build

- Very innovative

- Multiple rehousing of stock items

- Massive injectors

- Complicated ECU

 

You got it running! It's not 100%, but I'll tell you something, that's a hell of an achievment for you in my book. Small amount of work will have that running MINT.

 

Completely agree.

 

Don't get disheartened John, as Johnny says it's a very complex build and the fact you got it running without Ryan even on site is great going :)

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Glad it fired up mate, all that hard work of yours paid off. Sorry I couldnt get the bugger to idle properly, think you may need a new set of plugs after they'd been cleaned a dozen times. Main thing is it fired up and ran well (for a while), sounded really smooth too :) Any chance of getting the other video up?

 

Ben

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Glad it fired up mate, all that hard work of yours paid off. Sorry I couldnt get the bugger to idle properly, think you may need a new set of plugs after they'd been cleaned a dozen times. Main thing is it fired up and ran well (for a while), sounded really smooth too :) Any chance of getting the other video up?

 

Ben

 

I'll get them from Johnny and stick them up mate.

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