Flooded it already!!!

[Don Pamponi]

Is it usual to have no accessory position on the ignition barrel?

I spent a weekend of crawling around inside the care swearing and destroying trim as i ripped it out, trying to fit component speakers.  Bit of work with a hammer & hacksaw and they went in.  More swearing whilst heat gunning on the dynomat and it sounded great.

Only trouble is all the time I had the ignition on to test the stereo the fuel pump was happily filling up the engine.

Would it start?  Still wont a week later.....

[MikeLMR]

http://www.mazdarotaryclub.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=604

sounds like you have a carb problem if running the fuel pump flooded the engine. But yes my fuel pump comes on with the first click of the key.

[antnicuk]

sounds modified, 1st gens only have a low pressure pump, do you have a 12 inj turbo conversion? if so, it sounds like who ever fitted the pump wired to whatever power they could find?

[Don Pamponi]

Oh, its a carb problem i reckon.  B***dy s**t bag of a low-tech, rubbish standard carb which is going straight in the bin when the turbo arrives.

Apart from the tuned up Elford kit and large exaust its standard, so I guess this could happen again, with any carb.

(why didn\'t I go for a 2nd gen, at least they had fool injection...)

How could the pump be wired wrong?


And I\'ve got air in the clutch hydraulics I think- ever had that sinking pedal feeling?  Got to pump the pedal to change gear some times!

Bugger
:confused:

[MikeLMR]

Lol binning that low tech 4 barrel vacuum secondary carb for the ultimate in modern carb design ... the SU (to be fair they aren\'t bad ... and a british design)

I think the pump being wired wrong was in reference to it coming on with the radio ... I am not sure as I have no radio so I can\'t 100% remember if it has an accesory postion or not, I thought it did not.

All I know is i let my fuel pump change note (so I know its primed the carb) before I start the car so it must run if you have the ignition on without the engine started. (reminds me I need to sort a battery ASAP!)

When the Elford kit going on then ?

[Don Pamponi]

Kit should go on in a couple of weeks.  Still waiting on stainless wire for the turbo heat blanket and making a mounting plate for the boost gauge where the gubbins tray under the stereo used to be.  Oh, gotta get a bleed valve too.

This is all assuming that it ever starts again....

[mpk490p]

what are you going for now then turbo? ive still got plenty of  bits if you need them, i\'m sure my pump doesnt come on until the second click.

[MikeLMR]

lol been up and fitted a new battery to the car again (but couldn\'t drive it due to some builders dumping a load of stuff outside of my rented garage !! :reallymad  everything is trying to stop me using this car!!) and I didn\'t pay attention to whether it has more than one click on the key .. DOH

[Don Pamponi]

pretty sure its just 1 click to get the warning lights on, then another to fire it up.

Just dont use the stereo without starting it.

[MikeLMR]

not much chance of that ... it hasn\'t got one ! (a stereo that is)

[Don Pamponi]

Hmm. Left it for a week in warm weather with the plugs out so I know it isnt flooded any more.  Ran it with the fuel off & plugs out just to be sure.

Its got a new battery and I had it plugged in to the charger/booster the whole time I was trying to start it anyway.

Wont even go with easystart.

Very odd.  Its just been rebuilt and started on the button untill very recently.  Hasn\'t been on the road much as its still under construction.

The last one I had had double the milage and wasn\'t that fresh, but never had anything like this happen.

I\'m stumped.

[MikeLMR]

have you got a spark ?  have you got fuel to the carb ?

[Don Pamponi]

How do find out if there\'s fuel to the carb?   Pull the fuel hose off i spose.  I got sparks some of the time....will that do?

Oh, whats an igniter?  The manual says I got to check them with a light bulb?

[Don Pamponi]

Might try that petrol in a squirty bottle trick to see if it is the fuel.

Then its a detailed exam of the ignition system me thinks.

But why would it suddenly just stop working?  Weird.

[RX-7_SEUK]

Mine has done the same recently, found it was a lack of compression.  Try squirting some oil into the rotor housings, put the plugs back in but dont connect the ht leads....spin it over for 10-15 seconds then reconnect the leads.  After doing this mine started first time!