chasinthemirages '88 VL Royale

[Shakotom]

1 minute ago, bigfoot said:

Sounds like a leaky/stuck injector. Also what fuel pump are you running? @Shakotom had an extreme richness issue on his rb30 from too big of a pump

Don’t bring me into this hahahah

mines still in the shed 1.5 years later.

have done zero looking into my issues

just assuming and buying parts I haven’t fitted

[Shakotom]

/mine ran perfectly fine for about 2000km after fitting the walbro 255 and new stock intank pump to it

Then it started not wanting to idle and not wanting to run at anything other than WOT and I just put it in storage / assumed it’s a fuel issue and forgot about the car since.

shit better go check rego expemption. Thanks for reminding

[tortron]

Fuel rail pressure too high, return line too small?

[chasinthemirage]

As far as I know it's just running the stock 30E fuel pump.

Got it sorted, I'm an idiot. Never occurred to me to check the terminals in the injector plug! One of them had pulled out of the plug and was sitting inside the insulating boot. Will need a new plug at some stage but it's running sweet now! 

[kws]

Now for some sweet sweet tsutsutsutsu 

[chasinthemirage]

Monday night I got the horn working, fitted the factory turbo heat shield and went for a blat around the block. The car was idling perfectly with the injector wire re-crimped and clicked back in but was cutting out once it hit boost. The gauges in these things aren't known for being particularly accurate so despite it having a quarter of a tank on the gauge I decided to put some fresh fuel in it before I started looking for issues that may not have actually been there. Last night I adjusted the parking brake, rebled the master cylinder and wheel brakes and treated it to 15L of 98 octane.

After letting it warm up for a few minutes I took it for a couple quiet laps around the block to check the brakes and get some heat into the rest of the driveline before giving it a bit of jandal. I took it easy as it's the first time it's been driven properly in a year but the brakes feel good and it pulls cleanly through the rev range. There's still a few things left to sort but it felt damn good to finally hear that wee T3 spool!

[chasinthemirage]

So I no longer own this car, I told quite a few people at Hanmeet but in the interests of tidying up this thread I'll post it here too. 

When I bought it I'd agreed to give the previous owner first option if I decided to sell up. I messaged him on facebook and and few days later he'd driven up from Timaru and away it went. It's the ideal outcome as far as I'm concerned, I've got some cash and one less thing to worry about and the car will be looked after by a genuine foamer who also happens to have the sister car to this Royale (identical spec and trim and one after another off the production line).

I have no idea what's next for me, maybe a Hilux, maybe some tickets back to Europe but it feels good to have got this car buttoned up and out of my hair. My sincerest apologies for no dose video.