Cheers mate, its nice to get support, i am so peeved that it was my error causing this, i should have moved the wires in the first place, i am just trying to sort a new front wiring harness, it saves repairing the wires.

A whole day i spent looking in the wrong place, and now i have ended up with my inlet bolted to the heads with loads of gasket sealant to make sure of no leaks, and no insulating spacers!, so i will have to take it back off, clean it all up and put the spacers back on!, i am a ****! hey ho, its the price we pay for quick old wagons.

Next is some more bad news, my ****ing clutch is slipping now, so need to but and fit an uprated one!, credit crunch my ****!! (i hope)

 

Pat was telling me you can't do it this way as you can only have one map and mine is on autronics ?? I understand you can have different boost settings?? but I dont see the point of say a 1.1bar boost and 2bar boost setting as I would only use the 2bar setting

 

Glad you found the cause Sam, annoying to have wasted time but at least its a straight forward fix

 

Cheers mate, i am not having much success in finding what i need loom wise, i cannot tell from just looking at the car, if the damaged part of my loom (near the bottom of the rad and headers) is permanently attatched to the whole loom or unplugs from somewhere near the fusebox or what? i dont want to have to change the whole bloody cars loom just to sort the damaged bit!, any assistance on this would be greatly appreciated?

 

How many wires have been affected? You can chop out the damaged ones and rewire - disconnect battery first!

 

In case you didn't fix the power steering yet, here goes.. Whenever you drain the fluid for any reason, you must first turn the steering full left to full right (without the engine running!) and back a few times, topping up the reservoir as needed. Then you must do the same with the engine running and PS pump running obviously. Now the car should be good for a spin.

When the pump is running it pays to be a careful with the steering action, as your pump might barf some atf (along trapped air) and reckless behaviour behind the wheel will only make the mess bigger.

 

Not sure about the loom I'm afraid Sam, but I do have some heat reflective sleeve if you are interested when you do replace it. I've got a pic of how I've wrapped mine that I'll dig out for you.

 

Cheers guys, i have been speaking to someone on here called Brett, he has nicely given me a little advice and encouragement to repair the loom myself, which i am now going to do, (i am an electrician btw!), i ordered a new soldering iron and some heat shrink, solder, solder aid etc yesterday, so a repair i will now do!.
Heat sleeve stuff sounds good trails?

 

It looks like between 6 and 10 wires affected so far!
Hopefully the simtek ecu will still be alright, and the fans, lights, abs, and any sensors?!

 

was just thinking i had a similar thin i had an e36 m3 few years back just started missing out the blue for no reason turned out the be melted wires aswell ! hopefully when mine is running in the summer the wagon's will all have to do a run what you brung day at the pod . p.s i got my exedy going in when my engine goes in saves me taking it back out when it slips lol .

 

There is always a way Steve, get yourself a laptop and your own Autronics software.
Get Pat to do you a second map and save them both on your laptop, then you can load and reload each map as many times as you want.

 

I feel a little better now, i have just got some Cosworth pistons for my 2.1 cdb build, and brand new P1 suspension to go on the wagon.

 

I'm Brett, Have you sorted the wires yet?

 

Hi mate, the soldring iron kit arrived today, just waiting for heat shrink and to pick up the wire from my stores tomorrow, then i will hopefully get on it at the weekend!, cant wait to get it running as it was only running properly for 3/4 days!

 

Sam, sorry its taken so long but here are a couple of crappy pics...but you get the idea. I split my wrap because my loom was already in place and used metal cables ties from Screwfix, they have caused me no problems so far and are cheap



I've some left over so drop me a Pm if you are interested.


Happy New Year btw

 

Aha, thanks mate, i have been neglecting the car slightly the last few weeks, havent really used it, will be aiming to fix the loom this weekend, and finding out why the car is only boosting at 1.5 bar at the moment!

 

happy new year btw!

 

Right then, back to the car, i have been fishing for the last 5 months!, she is booked in with Bob Rawle to be sorted next week, today i will be removing the roof rails, putting new front calpipers on, and doind a few other niggly bits!, also booked in for a new clutch next week.

 

How she looks at the moment

 

looking good Sam, good luck with the mapping session

 

Hi Trails, good to be back thanks!

 

Temporary 4 pots on, until mine get back from godspeed!

 

Hi all, back to my scoob now then!, Bob Rawle tested my ecu, its fine, car is still not boosting correctly, and ive got a knocking on the front end, also need a new uprated clitch!, found the high idle problem out to be a blown fuse!

 

looking good there but

got a 20g wagon myself too

 

She does move well, when she runs!!!!!!!!!!

 

Sam,

Just read your thread. The trials and tribulations of a big wagon build!! Well done for seeing it through.

I'm another wagon fan!

 

Sam, got your PM will ring you tomorrow

 

Thanks guys, i was seriously close to just giving up monday morning and going back to a S/C VR6!!!.
Anyway here i am, thanks trails its appreciated.
Starting stripiing the car down a bit today, a few problems linger, there is still a boost problem but i think it will be sorted this week, even though i dont know what the problem is yet!, there is a sort of knocking or rubbing from the front end, done the obvious checks and found nothing so i am going to strip down a caliper and check the disc.

 

Lubbly Jubbly!, car back boosting at 1.5 bar, and full strong power!, just need to sort weird knocking at front end, then bit of tlc over the whole car, and we are getting there!

 

The knocking was a warped disc, thats sorted now!