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[Juju]

Fwwwooooooooooooarrr!!

*rubs thighs & smacks lips*

Glad you got her purring, Matt. Are you in love again now, then?

[The Matt]

Not quite sure about being in love with her again yet. She's still a little minx!!!

[The Matt]

Another night in the garage has revealed that my brand new (well, done about 50 miles) EDIS coil is faulty!

Bladdy Ford parts!

[Bean]

cccccooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[The Matt]

I know

Gonna paint the bonnet soon and get some door circles or rectangles on there.

[Jammy]

How did you work out your coil was faulty? And what symptoms was it causing?

[minituga]

Congratulations!
I've learned a lot from your post!!
I love your engine bay, as its the best looking, i've seen here!!

[miniboo]

Fix Or Repair Daily

[The Matt]

How did you work out your coil was faulty? And what symptoms was it causing?

I've got some misfires throughout the rev range. At first I thought it was down to bad setup, so I connected my timing strobe to cylinder number 1 and started to rev the bugger manually. When revving it I saw that I was losing signal to my strobe and that the engine was struggling (it was only firing on three or even two cylinders). I played around with the multiplug that powers the coil and it was a little loose, the revs dropped, then I wiggled it a little more and there was a MASSIVE backfire and the revs picked back up.

Sooo, I think that what's happened is that there's been a loose contact on the coil, this has maybe been causing some of the misfires that I've had, but it's also damaged the coil. I was losing a spark on cylinders 1 and 3 (which are on two different coils on the EDIS pack) from about 2krpm and above. When I switched the HT leads around the lost spark followed the same coil outlets (ruling out lead problems). It's a PITA, but I think it may have been caused by having a loose multiplug in the end. It's a brand new coil too!

@Minituga, thanks for the compliments

[minituga]

what kind of spark plugs are you using?

[The Matt]

ATM I'm using BP6ES plugs with gaps set to 0.9mm, they should be fine for the 'jolt setup I think

[minituga]

BP6ES?
what brand is that?

[Jammy]

NGK.

[Pie]

Fix Or Repair Daily

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Looking good maffyew. Is it gonna make an appearance at malvern?

[The Matt]

Dunno yet Pie. Not sure if I CBA to go there really.

But, she's been used every day to get me to work and back for the last week or so with no problems, aaaand she's returning around 20mpg, which is nice.

She also lights the likkle tyres up if I let her!