Oh dear, whats wrong now?

[Welsh Dan]

Map sensor line is still connected - first thing I checked

[Jono FD3]

have never known a car to be so tempramental there is allways something wrong with them it seems

Like all things, you get good ones and bad ones!!!

Simple cheep things first Dan: Plugs & leeds, also check evry pipe to do with the fueling & take it from there!

Jono

[Welsh Dan]

PLugs and leads are first thing on the list tomorrow. All the pipes appear to be connected and I think the smell of fuel is from the wastegate looking at it.

I\'ll speak to Ross later in the week and will possibly end up breaking it. Seems like a lot of hassle to rebuild it

[Gman]

Chin up mate, hopefully it won\'t be that bad.

[rx7veilside]

even in standard form it seems there are endless split pipes/solenoids jamming overheating etc..seems inconceivable that a factory produced car with even mild mods wld prob need rebuilding at 60000 miles..has any fd ever made it past 60000 miles without going pop..mine was running every conceivable extra.skyline pump/uprated fpr/1600 secondaries/water injection/fmic/pwr rad/expertly mapped and set up and yet a burst vac hose and detonation occured..the safety margins on these cars when increasing perf are miniscule.much more so than a boinger.reason i like the v8 is approx 350bhp/350 foot pounds of torque six speed box 25mpg cruising but the potential with mild tuning for very fast car with litle or no chance of going pop.the rotary relies heavily on its seals,,water and apex and if they are put under just that little too much stress then they just pop

[Welsh Dan]

Ignore that, as it revs for the full range, but takes ages to do so.

[Welsh Dan]

It sounds exactly like this.......

http://media.putfile.com/rex6249

Not healthy sounding........

[maximtaylor]

Leading coil pack? Sounds a bit like its running on the trailing plugs only to me!

[GerbilStuntFarm]

Can you pop the hood and record what it sounds like then. Any rattling or just sounds like its overfuelling? What\'s your ECU telling you? Change your plugs and leads, and flow test your injectors if you can anyway.

[Welsh Dan]

I haven\'t been able to find my spark plug puller, so i\'ve got to borrow one so I can check the plugs yet.

[Welsh Dan]

When it gets louder towards the end of the clip, thats me stood right in the engine bay.
There\'s like a scraping sort of tinny noise coming from the engine. New primaries were fitted about a month ago and the ECU isn\'t telling me anything different to normal.

[GerbilStuntFarm]

Sorry take off the ps and aircon belt and see if the scraping is still there to make sure the noise isnt just a dry pulley bearing. I can\'t hear it in the clip.

I\'m assuming the water pump is okay.

A knackered MAP sensor, or split/loose hose would cause your bogging down symptoms, although you\'ve checked the hose you can still test the MAP sensor but you\'d need some figures and a multimeter first, not sure if it shows on the sensor list on the apexi.

If we were optimistic I\'d say it\'s your ignition, but you wont find out until you can pull the plugs.

A compression test would obviously put your mind at rest so chin up until that at least is done.

edit: only just seen your spec list. Take the ignition amp and water injection (or just make sure it\'s not permanently on) out of the equation .

[asp]

when i changed the plugs in mine,i did the trailing,started to do the leading,food van came so i had some munch and forgot to put the leads on proply on the leading plugs,
any way its sounded just like that sound clip,

[GerbilStuntFarm]

What was the resolution to this, or was there not one - apart from the worst..

[Welsh Dan]

Nope, it was the worst unfortunately. I sold it to a guy on here, with him knowing it needed a rebuild
Whilst I only thought that it needed a rebuild, it would seem that the knackered tips also destroyed the 5 week old turbo, and so the guy needs to get a new turbo (or the other one rebuilt) too. I think its at RX Motors being done at the moment