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Chaps a mate of mine is having trouble with his motor, he recently got his scooby back on the road after a long story (in a nut shell someone borrowed and crashed it) now hes back on the road car and wont run properly. Hes tried explaining the issue to me but ive never even looked under the bonnet of one. There are also some sensor errors on the dash. One about the idle sensor? He says there is couple of splodges of oil here and there in the engine bay. I recon rings?

Long shot i know but TM has its wide variety of knowledge.

Any help appriciated.

Mike

Edited by MikeRace on 30th Mar, 2010.

1/4 Mile 14.3secs 96Mph Terminal 10psi of boost.


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He needs to get on scoobynet or the like to do some research!
Idle problems can just be the plug not quite in right or something damaged in the smash thats not been repaired?.
Alot depends on its age, mine ran rough until i replaced a coilpack (it had one on each plug) later models had them on top of the engine and they were more reliable..
Its a while since i sold mine so not much help, sorry!

Edited by Richspec on 30th Mar, 2010.

Here for the craic..

Supercharged Arden powered

What year is it?
On Mine (the classic model, GC8 Chassis) you can connect two wires underneath the dash together to put the ECU into self-check mode. You then perform a brief procedure and will get flashes/pulses of the 'Check Engine Light' which will tell you what the error code is and therefore help a lot with diagnostics as you can find out easily what parts/sensors are flashing up as errors.
There is an "Idle Air Control Solenoid Valve" on the EJ20 engine, however without more info on ECU error codes and a year/engine type, along with more information on these "Oil Splodges" it's hard to even hazard a guess.....

Edited by Fortecphil on 30th Mar, 2010.

I love the GC8.

I miss my old one :(

http://www.jolyonway.com

i did my gearbox in on mine, took me a whole day under the car to take out and replace with an sti box (before the old electronic diff control) pain in the ass!!! expensive too!

"Cars are a lifetime of pain"

Ill get some more details tomorrow! Thanks for the input chaps

1/4 Mile 14.3secs 96Mph Terminal 10psi of boost.


Fibreglass Parts? - http://www.tdkracing.co.uk/
Split Rims? - http://www.force-racing.co.uk/

DTCs would be good if new enough.
But from what you say - have you done a compression test?

On 5th Sep, 2011 Vegard said:
I stand corrected. You should know

That was the 1st thing i asked and no!

1/4 Mile 14.3secs 96Mph Terminal 10psi of boost.


Fibreglass Parts? - http://www.tdkracing.co.uk/
Split Rims? - http://www.force-racing.co.uk/