Evening all.

My v3 type r starts fine when cold and again when warm if started straight away, or within 2-3 mins. Leave it any longer and it needs cranking for 5-10 seconds before starting. Its been getting worse for the last 3 to 4 months but it only gets used once a week for a 4 mile each way journey.

There is a very strong smell of fuel from the exhaust and there is defo a spark at the plugs. Only way to start it is to floor the pedal, which is I believe the way to start a flooded engine. I don't touch the pedal to start it normally.

Ive changed the ecu coolant temp sensor as well as the cam and crank sensors. It has a new battery fitted too.

I'm left thinking that it could be an earthing issue or would a single leaking injector cause enough of a problem that all 4 cylinders would be affected? I suppose the fuel would vapourise into the inlet manifold?

Anything else I can check? Its fitted with a 6s ecu and esl board.


Cheers,

Wayne.

 

Air mass meter. There are lots of other possibilities, do a fault code read.

 

Had a similar problem on my M3, the injectors were leaking.

 

As been said check out the MAF.

 

Sounds like it could be the camshaft sensor starting to fail or maybe the crank sensor. I would swap the camshaft sensor first as it's a 5 minute job, the crank sensors are often stuck in place but do come out with some persuasion.

 

Dusted off the type r after 2 years of no use. Found out after fitting new injectors that the seals have gone on the old ones. Just thought I would update this thread.