Won't start

[tim wragg]

went out Thursday night and did about 10 miles, parked in garage. Come to go out Saturday morning, ran on tick over for 5 seconds, but would do more revs and stalled. tried to restart and sounds like only 1 or 2 cylinders are firing.

Help please, only had the car 3 days!!!

[dodgyviper]

ouch bad luck.

anyway for my tuppence worth.

With mine I've found revving the engine shortly after startup (0-15 seconds) can cause a stall. As a consequence this can flood the engine and prevent further ignition until the cylinders have drained.

Either, give it time or, do a dry engine start. i.e. stop the fuel supply and turn it over - this'll dump the fuel out.

In the passenger footwell remove the cover from the battery and you should see the wiring and ECU/fuse box etc. On the wiring loom, you'll have two relays - one grey, the other blue. Remove these and then turn the engine over. It won't start of course but will drain the fuel out. Then switch off the ignition, replace the relays and turn her over. Should start ok.

One of the relays is the fuel pump and the other is the ECU.

Hope this sorts it out.

Ged

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Only problem with doing that is, it dumps neat fuel through the catalysts, which does not do them any good. Unless of course you don`t have cats!

[v8 racing]

i must admit they do to tend to flood quite easily, the easy way to do it, is to take the black and white wire off the negative side of the coil this will stop the injectors from firing, the engine will fire momenterally because of the fuel in the cylinders, pop the wire back on and just let it idle for a minute before touching the throttle!!

[GreenV8S]

Not particularly, there's no extra fuel going in to the engine. In contrast, running the engine with a misfire puts shed loads of fuel into the cats.

It does sound like the engine has flooded, which might just be a clue that it needs a service, or could be a symptom of some other fault like excess fuel pressure or an ignition problem. I suggest you find a local TVR specialist and ask them to give it a service and check it over.

[v8 racing]

Hi pete dont really get your last post about not really much more fuel going into the engine? probably me and beer again! this time of year these engines unless set up properly by mark etc... do tend to dump a shed load of fuel into the engine on cranking, makes it even worse if you have old or sooted plugs to start with!

[tim wragg]

Thanks again,

you are all absolutely right, i flooded the engine! took a plug out of each side of the engine and were rather wet. I think driving out of my garage on tick over only choked it up and flooded it. Gave as quick call to mike at Gorners who suggested I may have flooded it and was very helpful, thanks Mike also.

Suppose I have learned one of my first lessons, leave it running for a minute or so to warm up first, a method I will be using in the future!

Just had a 100 mile run out, even with the roof down (not done this before) the engine sounds even better "topless"

thanks again, all your knowledge is invaluable. Happy again!