Fast Hatch to Mega Fast Hatch enginetuner style!!
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Inspection of the engine has revealed no specific damage
So it looks like a fault with one of the injectors i recently installed
Expensive episode, engine will be refreshed and reinstalled and will be back fighting fit soonish.
So it looks like a fault with one of the injectors i recently installed
Expensive episode, engine will be refreshed and reinstalled and will be back fighting fit soonish.
Last edited by matt-c; 02 December 2020 at 12:33 PM.
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The car is back! Not had the opportunity to drive it yet unfortunately, hopefully later (work permitting). What i can notice right away is the engine has been installed with a lot of attention to detail, cable runs and hoses are tidier and secured better than before. It sounded sweet as a nut coming off the transporter.
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Just to confirm the work that was done on a high level i may miss some things.
Heads cleaned, resurfaced, reassembled
Block resurfaced, bored to the next oversize and fitted with Mahle 2618 pistons
New bearings
RCM Headgasket
Cosworth belt kit
Fuji oil pickup
PTP Turbo Blanket
Killer B thermostat housing
Fuji Cylinder 4 cooling mod
The Perrin engine mounts had started to melt !!!
They have been replaced with GrpN items and the headers are now wrapped as well as ceramic coated.
Hopefully today can take it out.
Heads cleaned, resurfaced, reassembled
Block resurfaced, bored to the next oversize and fitted with Mahle 2618 pistons
New bearings
RCM Headgasket
Cosworth belt kit
Fuji oil pickup
PTP Turbo Blanket
Killer B thermostat housing
Fuji Cylinder 4 cooling mod
The Perrin engine mounts had started to melt !!!
They have been replaced with GrpN items and the headers are now wrapped as well as ceramic coated.
Hopefully today can take it out.
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Small update.
After a sad bereavement in the family the car has not been getting much attention lately.
There was a further fuel issue some time back and this was almost certainly due to the Bosch filter i had used, this is widely advertised as 8 micron online, however i cannot find anything "official" to support that.
Anyway, the injectors were sent to ID for service and one of them was almost completely blocked!
They are back with me now, sealed as new and with a report confirming they are all running in spec, they are for sale if anyone is after a set, they only covered a couple of hundred miles.
So the Bosch filter was binned, replaced with a Microglass filter as suggested by ID and a brand new set of ID1300 were installed since i did not want to wait for the others to come back from the US.
Then life took over for a while.
As of now the car is running well, still needs another 100 or so miles before the 500 mile oil change.
The fueling is still a little out given the change in injectors, but I'm gradually dialling it in and it's only running at low RPM low load at the moment.
This week i got RealDash running on the Android headunit, and it's pretty cool.
In fact from the limited testing I've done the gauges respond quicker than those on Toucan ! Highly recommended.
To get it working i used some info on the RealDash forum about how to configure the XML config file and used a USB CAN analyser connected via an On-the-go adapter to the head unit.
Can hi and lo were tapped into from the cable going to the shiftlight.
After a sad bereavement in the family the car has not been getting much attention lately.
There was a further fuel issue some time back and this was almost certainly due to the Bosch filter i had used, this is widely advertised as 8 micron online, however i cannot find anything "official" to support that.
Anyway, the injectors were sent to ID for service and one of them was almost completely blocked!
They are back with me now, sealed as new and with a report confirming they are all running in spec, they are for sale if anyone is after a set, they only covered a couple of hundred miles.
So the Bosch filter was binned, replaced with a Microglass filter as suggested by ID and a brand new set of ID1300 were installed since i did not want to wait for the others to come back from the US.
Then life took over for a while.
As of now the car is running well, still needs another 100 or so miles before the 500 mile oil change.
The fueling is still a little out given the change in injectors, but I'm gradually dialling it in and it's only running at low RPM low load at the moment.
This week i got RealDash running on the Android headunit, and it's pretty cool.
In fact from the limited testing I've done the gauges respond quicker than those on Toucan ! Highly recommended.
To get it working i used some info on the RealDash forum about how to configure the XML config file and used a USB CAN analyser connected via an On-the-go adapter to the head unit.
Can hi and lo were tapped into from the cable going to the shiftlight.
Last edited by matt-c; 11 June 2021 at 01:23 PM.