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[Ollie180]

hmmm carbon firber :tongue: :tongue:

[Ade]

Well yet another frustrating evening!!

Started when I got home from work to discover that the (alledegly unhelpful see other thread if you don't know what I mean) Z-cars had sent me a replacement crack shaft sensor (free of charge I might add!! even though we didn't get the engines from them!!!! well above and beyond excellent custmer service!!)

So I threw that in the engine so that when Pete arrived with my wiring loom we could start him up!

Pete arrives loom connected starts.......... only firing on three cylinders! :nugget:

To cut a long story short the rest of evening was spent trying to chase the fault around and got nowhere

What we have since discovered is that it would appear that the other sensor that I'm missing seems to have forced the ecu into a "safe mode" which causes the engine to miss on one of its cylinders!!!

So typically this is the most expensive sensor of the two I was missing

But it runs just sounds poop!! But once the other sensor arrives hopefully we'll be back on track.... :grin:

[Pooky]

Yeah, whatever !

How long till we can hear/see it!!

(is it gonna be at MITP? )

[Ade]

Yeah, whatever !

How long till we can hear/see it!!

(is it gonna be at MITP? )

At this rate MITP is an almost certain no.

And I can guarantee that no-one wants to hear this run properly more than me! So I'm sorry if my (and Petes) hours of labouring are an inconveinience to you

Being a project thread I'm trying to offer anyone else doing this kind of thing some (hopefully useful) info. :tongue:

[Mincento]

your just wasting our time ade

being serious though its a shame your having soo many probelems with the engine side of the project did you not hear it running before you brought it ? as they aint cheap are they and when is MITP

[pete]

Neither engine was heard running. Both came from the same place and both were guaranteed to run even though they knew we wouldn't be fitting them for some time(brought the engines in January). They have already reimbursed us the cost of the faulty sender unit just by phoneing them. Excellent service from them so not worried if the engine is knackered as I am certain they will replace it.
After testing Ade's ecu on my engine I had the same problem. After resetting the ecu it seemed to work ok on mine so hopefully Ade's will be ok when we try it again Sunday.

[Mincento]

so it aint that bad then lets hope it all works and you can get em both on the road eh

[Ade]

Ok only small progress this weekend as I was at a wedding (best man so couldn't really miss it....) :nugget:

But Basically the dash is now bonded in, the replacment glass for the wing mirrors is now fitted, the windscreen is in, the replacement caliper is now on (will have to wait and see if it leeks so fingers crossed).

Hopefully the header tanks will arrive this week and with a bit of luck will have the new sensor I need aswell.

But and this is typical! My friend who got married got me a present for being the best man! Great gift which I'm really chuffed with but will mean that another weekend for working on the mini is slipping by...... He's got me a pair of full weekend full roaming tickets for the BSB at Silverstone this weekend!!

But I'm taking friday off work so I can at least try and get stuff done and not fall even further behind! :nugget:

[mini_sam]

i like green too Ade! we can be green together!!!



w0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o!!! :tongue:

[Ade]

Lol!! :grin: Looks good! Not sure about the angle of your seat though :nugget: Is there something you'd like to "come out" and tell us?? :cheese: :grin: :tongue:

[mini_sam]

nowp...nothing to hide here... :fear: :tongue:

what can i say, its more comfy! :cheese:

[Ollie180]

look good lol yeh whats with the seat :saywhat:

[mini_sam]

apparently, thats how they have them nowadays (i cant see me landing a big jump with my seat like that :nugget: ), anyone notice the gaffa tape covering up rips!

lol

[austin68]

Yep saw the tape.

Does look injury inducing

Looks nice though.

[mini_sam]

aye, i can just see the injuries coming through now! :nugget: