Weirdly it's also the smoothest and quietest car i've ever owned, at 60-70 you can hear a pin drop inside.
Probably the lack of sunroof and the completely silent drivetrain odd for 196k miles!
Still getting the hang of attaching pics.
I still have the old Blue V8 however I had a moment of weakness in April this year and dragged an old DSE home.
Poor thing was set to go to the scrappy, however under the filth a good motor was waiting..
only payed £800 for it.....
it was very sad..
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Bonnet was rotten and didn't close soursed a 2nd hand one
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EAS was on its arse and the interior was absolutely vile, however after cleaning it for 3 days straight it came up great the seats are like new,
She became my daily driver and has since april been a very good car..
It has spent some time in Europe I believe as it has reflectors stuck to the headlights and the MOT history has a Gap from 2014 to 2019!!
cheers
cheers all
I have found two broken wires one PURPLE/ORANGE that goes directly to the EAS ecu - it's gone green and broken,
And another PURPLE/ORANGE wire that is hanging from the bottom of the EAS delay relay, it's been cut or corroded off and I can't find where it connects to.
Any ideas chaps.
changed the leak off pipes on the DSE and changed the oil.
I have the free rsw software but it keeps getting a PP in the rx buffer
I bought another P38 an old DSE it has an eas fault "naturally" and I can't seem to get the eas cable to connect.
No coms with one cable I have and on the other it won't select a comm port at all.
I recall vaguely having this issue with my V8 however I can't remember how I fixed it..
My laptop is a windows 10 unit if thats any use..
Cheers
Go on buy it ;)
You know you want to.....
still in better nick than mine.
Cheers Gents much appreciated.
after a long'ish run around 20miles she's chucking up 3 lambda sensor faults now..
P0155
P0135
P0154
HMM
P1171 HAS SHOWN TOO..
HMM
Occasionally the old girl seems to "cough" or splutter when under light load in any gear but it's very prevalent in 4th as the entire car shunts back and forth as it misfires.
idles buttery smooth.
Under hard acceleration its fine..
Nanocom has found these faults.
cheers.
Mot passed a few advisories very happy to be fair, fair old bit of work and money to get her roadworthy.
Well happy, pushed in to daily service as i don't have other car at the moment ha ha oh dear....
Ahh cheers.
The LPG system was half missing when I got the car years ago and the wiring is a mess to be honest so in an ideal world i'd like to remove the excess and get her back to factory..
No LPG stations around me anymore so no reason to keep it.
Cheers it's an AC stag system I believe.
Hiya my old P38 has an LPG conversion, the wiring for the LPG ecu is rather hapdash and strewn all over the shop I was wondering what it would take to remove it and get the original loom back to factory/petrol spec.
It's a multipoint system would it just be tied in with the petrol injector loom or is it more in depth?
cheers.
managed to fix the fault with it in regards to it not going down, it was indeed the diaphragm valve
New issue has arisen though it won't calibrate, it'll hold a calibration in standard until i crawl up and down my drive a few times then it jumps to wade height and when i drop it back down to standard the back end is on the floor and the front is right up in the air.
target heights are.
NSF OSF
118 116
NSR OSR
155 121
the height sensors look absolutely abysmal and the arms are so corroded that they'll snap any moment so i've bought a set..
but even with the numbers above it sits with its back end on the floor..
grrr
no no the valveblock hasn't been apart for over 4yrs.
It worked ok up until a few months ago, nothing has been touched.
Well i've had a spare 20mins and had another look, it seems she's exhausting not from the usual exhaust on the valveblock but out of a line which seems to go nowhere?
I think its the thin line that goes in just above the eas exhaust..
Also there is no air coming from the exhaust on the valveblock, which seems odd.
any thoughts?
i've done a video, if its any use.
it kind of shows how slow it lowers and where she seems to be exhausting from.