Broken down..... :(

[MethylatedSpirit]

Car started misbehaving itself on the motorway. Would loose power whenever I changed the throttle position.

Then there would be an almost two second delay between changing the throttle positiona and the car accelerating

It "fixed" itself and I made my way over the bridge, Long downhill section to my town it completely conked out when at the roundabout (at rush hour). Luckily I flagged down a police car and they helped me off the roundabout.

Car refused to restart.

Car restarted when the aa man got there (just my luck). Held the car at 2k revs and let off the throttle, it just died again and wouldn't restart.

It was fine to drive onto the recovery truck (waited 2 hours for one low enough) and drive back off. Asked my trusted mechanic to have a look at it (aa refused to take it to the nearest specialist). He ran it several times without problem. Until he gave it one last try to see if the problem would resurface and sure enough he broke down 4 miles from the garage just before closing time


Any ideas? it's a 1990 tvr 350i

Still has a spark (didn't check all of them)
Fuel pump seems to whirr away
All eight injectors have a pulse
I sprayed some "easy start" into the intake, car still wouldn't start?

Then I got bored and called the AA. It's kinna odd when you're on first name terms with a recovery driver! :laugh

Edited by MethylatedSpirit on Tuesday 16th September 20:57

Edited by MethylatedSpirit on Tuesday 16th September 20:58

[MethylatedSpirit]

I've done 7,000 miles since I bought it in march without any trouble from the car. It's a daily driver.

It did develop an erratic idle from cold. I just ignored it because it was 15 seconds max and then would settle down.

I can't spend much time as I'm away 7 days a week with university and work. I've just given it to my local mechanic to look at.

[MethylatedSpirit]

honestjohntoo said:

You car is likely over-fuelling

Hmmmmmmm


It's always smelt a bit rich and people have commented on it. I put it down to the absence of cats since I've not really owned a car without em!


I think it's a flapper efi? Not sure how to tell the difference. I know my chim had a hotwire system... I've not had a proper look at it, I just check the coolant and oil once a week!

Edited by MethylatedSpirit on Wednesday 17th September 23:11

[MethylatedSpirit]

It seems to drive from cool, then completely die when it heats up, not restarting.

Does anyone have a part number for the temperature sender? And know anywhere round Glasgow that might stock one?

honestjohntoo said:

If your engine is a flapper it might look something like this SD1 engine bay.

Pretty sure it's a flapper now


It seems to drive from cool, then completely die when it heats up, not restarting.

Does anyone have a part number for the temperature sender? And know anywhere round Glasgow that might stock one?

Edited by MethylatedSpirit on Thursday 18th September 22:47