What's Hot?!?!

[Nicksy]

After having a cracking morning at Brunters!!!! The car decided to stall and not restart in the 5th lane on the M1 just at the start of the road works in crawling traffic! After pushing the car up the hill to the hard shoulder I went to restart but with no joy!! It sounded like a grinding noise and the engine would not turn over!

Spec of the car

1. GT03 with 19,000 on the clock
2. H&S exhaust
3. BOV
4. Up rated fuel pump and loom
5. Pace intercooler
6. Remap by Trevor
7. Up rated front end cooling

Symptoms

1. The car occasionally stalls once warm, usually when going through town and stopping for traffic lights etc. Not an issue the car normally restarts. Its very rare for the car to do it!
2. The grinding noise has only happened twice, once on Saturday and then again on Sunday (M1). On both occasions it was a hot day and the car had come to a standstill on a hill. The first time I rolled the car back so it was on flat ground and tapped the starter motor and it seemed to do the trick. On Sunday I tried the same but with no joy!!!!

Once the car had been recovered back to the compound and had chance to cool down it restarted and was fine and has been since.

Thoughts on the problem

1. My initial thought that it was the coil of the starter motor sticking when over heating, due to its location
2. a friend said that it could be a fuelling problem (vapour lock) requiring a swirl pot and secondary pump.

Has anyone had similar experiences?? Please help

Ta

Kevin (Nicksy)

[Nicksy]

That’s interesting because on both occasions I had less than 1/4 of a tank. When you tried to restart did you get a grinding noise? Initially I thought it was the starter, but it would make sense if it is a dry fuel pump!


Nicksy