Its Running! Oh no, it wont start. Hang on thats it, oh wait
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Well from about day 3 thats been my experience with the old Chimaera 500. All is well when it runs, I know I dont need to explain the sensation of driving one of these cars here, its just very good.
An ofcourse, because of the devious nature of the car it was behaving itself impecably while at TVR Eccosse.
I picked the car up today and drove it home over 100 miles. It drove perfectly, apart from not wanting to fire up after a stop at Stirling services. A few minutes of wire wiggling around the coil and ignition amp area and it started up and drove home.
After some dinner I took it back out for petrol and it stalled just as I pulled up to the pump. As expected it wouldn't start. So bonnet up and more fiddling with the wires around the coil area and I was good for the next 20/30 miles of towns and country roads, competely flawless!
Then after a brief stop at the house, back out, start up and is stalls in about 5 seconds, and again as expected, wont start. So bonnet up and, well, you can guess the rest.
Now the cars running Im just on my way up to the garage to put it away for the night and it starts jerking violently about stalling and then running again as Im trying to drvie it up the road. It eventualy cuts out completely, alowing me to demonstrate my expert TVR fixing techinque once again.
If anyone has managed to read this far, do you have any suggestions or have you had any similar experiences?
I dont have a photo but can anyone explain what all the wirings for?
Why is there a pair of diodes inline with 2 of the wires going to the coil? Why on every car are they folded back on themselves, taped up and cable tied to the breather hose?
What does the ignition amp actualy do?
What is the 3 pin plug behing the ignition amp for?
Does the MIL light only flash when you turn the key if the ECU has detected a fault?
Does anyone from the Topgear production team want to feature my car on the next series?
An ofcourse, because of the devious nature of the car it was behaving itself impecably while at TVR Eccosse.
I picked the car up today and drove it home over 100 miles. It drove perfectly, apart from not wanting to fire up after a stop at Stirling services. A few minutes of wire wiggling around the coil and ignition amp area and it started up and drove home.
After some dinner I took it back out for petrol and it stalled just as I pulled up to the pump. As expected it wouldn't start. So bonnet up and more fiddling with the wires around the coil area and I was good for the next 20/30 miles of towns and country roads, competely flawless!
Then after a brief stop at the house, back out, start up and is stalls in about 5 seconds, and again as expected, wont start. So bonnet up and, well, you can guess the rest.
Now the cars running Im just on my way up to the garage to put it away for the night and it starts jerking violently about stalling and then running again as Im trying to drvie it up the road. It eventualy cuts out completely, alowing me to demonstrate my expert TVR fixing techinque once again.
If anyone has managed to read this far, do you have any suggestions or have you had any similar experiences?
I dont have a photo but can anyone explain what all the wirings for?
Why is there a pair of diodes inline with 2 of the wires going to the coil? Why on every car are they folded back on themselves, taped up and cable tied to the breather hose?
What does the ignition amp actualy do?
What is the 3 pin plug behing the ignition amp for?
Does the MIL light only flash when you turn the key if the ECU has detected a fault?
Does anyone from the Topgear production team want to feature my car on the next series?
Thanks UKDJ, its stuff like that that that I couldn't find out from the Steve Heath book.
Im pretty sure thats where the fault is, and yes my suspicion is that it is likely to be a broken wire. The positive it that It hasnt taken too long to narrow the fault down to this area, so Im not stuck by the side of the road for long.
Anyway Im not trying to slag the car off, and I know theyre not all like this and this ones very good when its good, no chassis or camshaft problems either. Atleast trying to trace the fault gives me an excuse to take it out all the time.
Im pretty sure thats where the fault is, and yes my suspicion is that it is likely to be a broken wire. The positive it that It hasnt taken too long to narrow the fault down to this area, so Im not stuck by the side of the road for long.
Anyway Im not trying to slag the car off, and I know theyre not all like this and this ones very good when its good, no chassis or camshaft problems either. Atleast trying to trace the fault gives me an excuse to take it out all the time.
Thanks UKDJ, its stuff like that that that I couldn't find out from the Steve Heath book.
Im pretty sure thats where the fault is, and yes my suspicion is that it is likely to be a broken wire. The positive it that It hasnt taken too long to narrow the fault down to this area, so Im not stuck by the side of the road for long.
Anyway Im not trying to slag the car off, and I know theyre not all like this and this ones very good when its good, no chassis or camshaft problems either. Atleast trying to trace the fault gives me an excuse to take it out all the time.
Im pretty sure thats where the fault is, and yes my suspicion is that it is likely to be a broken wire. The positive it that It hasnt taken too long to narrow the fault down to this area, so Im not stuck by the side of the road for long.
Anyway Im not trying to slag the car off, and I know theyre not all like this and this ones very good when its good, no chassis or camshaft problems either. Atleast trying to trace the fault gives me an excuse to take it out all the time.
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