New guy, need some help please!
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Hi guys,
Just signed up. Hope I'm in the correct place to get some much needed advice.
So I bought myself a little project race/rally car.
Ignis sport, 1.5vvt dohc.
Until the time came to strip out the fuel tank and replace it with a 15ltr fuel cell and a red fascet fuel pump the car started on the button and was well up for a rip any time you wanted. I'm emphasizing the fact it ran a dream.
So today I have the fuel cell in the boot, pump running off original wiring, primes and switches off till ignition.
Upon ignition the car starts but swiftly starts to judder. I think the best term might be starvation. (I'm a car lover, not a mechanic) so I kill the engine. Try again, it starts, then won't idle etc etc.
So I checked no leaks, the pump is getting served via gravity, pump is knocking away happily, as far as I'm aware a pump works or doesn't work, zero in between? ..I wondered if enough fuel was getting to the fuel rail, popped off the hose, into a bottle and it happily gushed in on a couple of primes.
Stupid question time. Upon taking off the fuel tank, the pipes, flow and return. There was a black / green push on clip, this is the flow, correct? And the return was just a pushed on pipe, had no fixing on the pipe.
I wondered if it was air flow, I opened a bolt on the top of the alloy tank, it made no difference. I'm awaiting a connection to fit a breather pipe.
So car started 100%, now doesn't ...the car is the same but the fuel source isn't. It's getting fuel but is it too much or too little? Etc etc.
I checked and ensured the pump is getting a 12v supply. It is, I'm just needing some assistance to tell me how stupid I'm being!
Is there anyone with brains to burn that can help? Please do try, little or loads of help.
Just signed up. Hope I'm in the correct place to get some much needed advice.
So I bought myself a little project race/rally car.
Ignis sport, 1.5vvt dohc.
Until the time came to strip out the fuel tank and replace it with a 15ltr fuel cell and a red fascet fuel pump the car started on the button and was well up for a rip any time you wanted. I'm emphasizing the fact it ran a dream.
So today I have the fuel cell in the boot, pump running off original wiring, primes and switches off till ignition.
Upon ignition the car starts but swiftly starts to judder. I think the best term might be starvation. (I'm a car lover, not a mechanic) so I kill the engine. Try again, it starts, then won't idle etc etc.
So I checked no leaks, the pump is getting served via gravity, pump is knocking away happily, as far as I'm aware a pump works or doesn't work, zero in between? ..I wondered if enough fuel was getting to the fuel rail, popped off the hose, into a bottle and it happily gushed in on a couple of primes.
Stupid question time. Upon taking off the fuel tank, the pipes, flow and return. There was a black / green push on clip, this is the flow, correct? And the return was just a pushed on pipe, had no fixing on the pipe.
I wondered if it was air flow, I opened a bolt on the top of the alloy tank, it made no difference. I'm awaiting a connection to fit a breather pipe.
So car started 100%, now doesn't ...the car is the same but the fuel source isn't. It's getting fuel but is it too much or too little? Etc etc.
I checked and ensured the pump is getting a 12v supply. It is, I'm just needing some assistance to tell me how stupid I'm being!
Is there anyone with brains to burn that can help? Please do try, little or loads of help.
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