Big pooey bum farts

[Prof]

Went up to Bedford on Friday night - got stuck in lots of traffic - nothing unusual about that these days
 
Got off the motorways and started on the back roads - through Denham and into Amersham - I smelt burning - electrical burning - and thought the car in front was having some problems....
 
 
...Got into Amersham and stuck in a bit more traffic - that\'s when I noticed my water temps going up a might quickly - hitting 100 I decided to pull into a side road...
 
...that\'s when I found the source of the burning smells - the electric fan wiring had burnt out completely, luckily it\'s only the wiring on the fan itself. Haven\'t found out why it went yet, but it meant a slight damper on the Japshow Finale rwyb on Saturday.
 
coupled with the emanage 2step ignition cut not working correctly - meant my first 2 runs were completely hopeless - although some entertaining pops and bangs on my first 2 runs - car nearly stalling out before letting out a massive bang and loads of grey/brown smoke.
 
Seems that when the stock ECU detects water temps at or over a 100 it tries to compensate by upping the fuelling to 100% - that really doesn\'t help matters - richer running usually gives higher water temps.
 
Mitch lent me his 14" fan - which has helped get the temps under control a little - but it meant no more than 3 runs and then stopping to let the car cool. Drove home Sunday with the heating full on :Giggle
 
Time to make a bomb proof fan controller with some kind of warning feedback...

[dthebuk]

Seems that when the stock ECU detects water temps at or over a 100 it tries to compensate by upping the fuelling to 100% - that really doesn\'t help matters - richer running usually gives higher water temps.
 

Well at least you didn\'t properly overheat it right? Thats the main thing!

Also I was under the impression that part of the reason for the rotaries sunning rich is because they actually use some of the petrol to cool them?

[TiddlesRX7]

Oh man not good news. As above though thank goodness it didn\'t overheat fully.

[m1tch]

Scared the camera guy at the side of the track when it let off though hehe

[Prof]

Scared the camera guy at the side of the track when it let off though hehe

I do wonder if anyone got a pic of it - it was quite a cloud of it out the back
 

Also I was under the impression that part of the reason for the rotaries sunning rich is because they actually use some of the petrol to cool them?

Actually it\'s a technique used by a lot of turbo cars, but this rampant fuel dumping is a bit ott :Giggle