Citroen CX GTI Turbo Engine Management

[Bilkob]

With an eye on the weather, I’m a cyclist, my eye is ALWAYS on the weather…:-) , I’m trying to really crack on with all the jobs that require the doors open, outside. So to that end, in went the rest of the carpets, rear seats, belts, centre console, etc…. That was easier to type than it was to do!

Don’t panic, I have a correct ‘Turbo’ gear knob but that’s going on last.

[Bilkob]

CX GTI Turbo 2 update.
I had wanted to finish this thread/build with a few arty shots of the car in a service station somewhere in deepest France, on a blast through its homeland.
The following 2 pictures tell a slightly different but ultimately encouraging story……….

Realising that the project was in danger of becoming just that-a project- I was presented with an opportunity/excuse for a more than solid shakedown drive. Hungry teenager in first year at Uni needs a few more snacks and wouldn’t mind a decent Sunday lunch. 350ish mikes later, the CX had rattled off a virtually trouble free run and I was getting increasingly less “what’s the noise, rattle, smell squeak?” as there weren’t really any. Mission accomplished and teenager fed and watered (and hugged)
Buoyed by this triumph of Gallic reliability a plan was hatched to drive to some friends in Gaillac, just North East of Toulouse, spend a few days cycling and drinking extremely good 🍷 and drive home again. It was genuinely exciting to be planning a foreign trip again, Chunnel booked, stopover hotel booked, let’s do this!
My better half wanted to fly, so I arranged to collect her from Toulouse airport late afternoon the next day.
CX loaded, bike, cycling kit, flip flops, s a few spare, tools, rags, LHM, water, etc and off we whooshed to to Folkestone. Having successfully conquered that awful bit of concrete M25/20 I pulled into a deserted Eurotunnel approach slowed down, lowered the (fast and working!) drivers window and thought, “Oh, is that a faint tinkling, scratching noise?” or just road noise
This particular adventure ends literally above the concourse where the trains depart, with me taking the decision to bail, as the noise had become fairly alarming in first and second gears and I just didn’t know what it was. Eurotunnel staff came to rescue me, I drove to a nearby service station, had a coffee and got ready to ring a recovery truck. Hey Ho………..
Happy (ish) ending in next post, feel free to guess the location of the slightly unwell bearing

[Bilkob]

[Bilkob]

Yes, that’s the support bearing on the back of the engine block. My guess is it was 50/50 when I put the engine-box back in and possibly the dyno session to set up the ECU sealed it’s fate! Live and learn…….

[Bilkob]

CXs are inherently very tough mechanically, lots of big , over engineered stuff , and they’re fundamentally still a very ‘analog’ car. I’m a CX addict but my folks had a BX and a Xantia, the ‘cooking’1.6 BX was brilliant!