cold starting

tezz12345 · December 09, 2006, 10:08:57 PM

why why oh why does it not start when cold???
always starts fine when warm, no coolent loss had new rebuild 1000 miles ago dident start earlyer today so took egi out wound it over for 10 secs tryed again and nothing!!!

went to pub watched football, though id try again and boom fires up straight away runs fine, slight oil leak but no coolent loss, fixed a vac pipe one way valve the other day thought that may cure it as it was running rich.

i dont know anymore spent a fortune on the thing i may be selling it soon as i am getting fed up and cant be arsed with all the problems, since buying its been one thing after the other. so may be a cheep rx on the market soon

G@NDY · December 09, 2006, 10:46:52 PM

Could be your plugs. Do you know what heat range your running. I would try putting in a couple of 7\'s unless you have them already.

tezz12345 · December 09, 2006, 11:03:59 PM

will whip em out tommoz n look

Martiny · December 10, 2006, 09:03:28 AM

Try this cold start procedure ( if you have the std ecu ).

Foot flat.
Now turn the key and keep the foot flat.
Momentarily it will sound like its firing, but keep foot flat.
After about a second, let go pedal completely.
Even if it starts firing, keep the key turned until you see a good 1k on the rev counter.

rx7veilside · December 10, 2006, 10:48:22 AM

whi did the rebuild it should have been set up when u had it rebuilt

tezz12345 · December 10, 2006, 11:18:31 AM

bloke who done rebuild is long gone
done it him self

tezz12345 · December 10, 2006, 11:19:16 AM

i brought it knowing nothing all seems fine apart from cold start

franky · December 18, 2006, 09:01:18 AM

might be your temp sensor? i had huge probs starting mine in the cold took a good 20mins to get her going when i took it it back to the garage he said thats wot it was changed it now she starts everything again. hope this helps

Martiny · December 18, 2006, 10:20:04 AM

So did you try my method?

tezz12345 · December 18, 2006, 04:51:10 PM

yeah tryed ur method and dident work but have started it since and it starts all ok now, so god knows what was wrong!!

just changed coolent the other day and keep filling it up after every drive dunno where its all going hope i have not got a leak

ferruh · January 17, 2007, 04:57:29 PM

my FD has leaking oil from somewhere near oil filter.

there are afew small black colour hoses near the filter that are covered in oil and underneath the car as well and some of it has dropped onto the floor. car runs ok, i checked the engine oil level and it seems to be ok.

any suggestions where this oil might be leaking from?

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cold starting

rx7veilside

ferruh