As title, only when im having a good drive,it flashes on then goes out?

Any idea why/what this means

Cheers

Dannytwo

 

Is it a bugeye ??

Shaun

 

yes mate its a bugeye wagon

Why mate?

 

Have you checked your oil level? Check for codes for the definative answer, mate

 

Quite possibly the neutral position switch - common issue on bugeye's, I had exactly the same on mine. The good news is that it's only a £30 part.

As above, get the code checked - I think mine was incorrectly reporting a misfire, the light would come on when pressing on. Since replacing the nps it's been fine.

 

Danny

The reason I ask is that the Bugeye moved over to the new Denso ECU from the JECS.

The Bugeye newage ECU is pretty complicated and used quite active knock control, turned off the aircon at high boost etc. it even had room for a reduced boost map (if activated).. toggled by pressing the rear screen demist and the throttle.

This came at a price as the early Newage (Bugeye) suffered from quite a lot of CEL's... Camshaft position sensor errors, Misfire flashing CEL's ........ after 7 years of development the Current ECU is pretty stable and even more sophisticated LOL

As escott posted the ECU got a bit confused if the NPS was flakey..it would flash all sorts of problems.....the most common being a misfire !!

I'd have the historic codes read off the ECU and if it's a misfire then swap the NPS switch......or just see what happens ?

HTH

Shaun

 

cheers matey

im running a gems ecu tho,so i surpose that complicates things even more?

 

The GEMS can be programmed to flash the CEL light if it detects det, I'd see about having it tweaked with the mapper wearing det cans

Shaun