I broke it quickly...And repeatedly...Chaste White Rebuild

[Francob]

Quaife 6 speed seq is officially ordered. 6-8 week lead time.

 

[Francob]

Put a stock box back in today until the new one arrives which should be mid Oct so I can use the car for a few months as June & July have been a write off.

No idea what condition the box is going to be in so fingers crossed it lasts. Might just send it with some full boost runs and Dragy. If it dies it dies.

Awaiting gear oil, should be here Tuesday so I can hear this thing again.

 

[Francob]

Back on the road until new box arrives. This current box does not like going into 5th, oh well, only a temporary solution.

 

[Temujin]

Give the ole girl some mechanical sympathy

 

[Copyninja]

Back on the road until new box arrives. This current box does not like going into 5th, oh well, only a temporary solution.

At least you got 3rd and 4th

 

[Francob]

This is true mate! The important ones

 

[Francob]

The car has gone for investigations to see if another pair of eyes can solve the EMI issues, it’s not necessarily causing the car not to run how I’d like but I’d still like it perfect so not always trying to find workarounds. Paying that much for a loom you’d expect it all to work flawlessly.

Gearbox should be ready in a few weeks with any luck.

 

[Temujin]

The car has gone for investigations to see if another pair of eyes can solve the EMI issues, it’s not necessarily causing the car not to run how I’d like but I’d still like it perfect so not always trying to find workarounds. Paying that much for a loom you’d expect it all to work flawlessly.

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Gearbox should be ready in a few weeks with any luck.

Fingers crossed you might get to drive it to your level of anger soon

 

[Francob]

Another little purchase from Jit this last week is a factory fresh lower window seal as mine is fucked, when you put the window up the seal goes with it.

 

[RandomVillager]

Could do with a pair of these TBF

One on the passenger side is a bit fooked

 

[Temujin]

That manifold looks good imo but would be interested in the noise different between that and twins.

Honestly I dislike driving the car because of the noise

 

[Francob]

That manifold looks good imo but would be interested in the noise different between that and twins.

Honestly I dislike driving the car because of the noise

Do you mean the noise of the twin gates ? If so, it’s horrific and I’m going to merge the screamers into one. If that fails I’ll have a fabricator knock up a single gate take off.

Sounds so bad, like a shit farty Golf R

 

[Francob]

Haven’t updated for a while.

Still awaiting box from Quaife, I’m told mid Nov now, there’s been a slight delay with manufacturing.

In the meantime you’ll all remember the constant wiring issues I was having for a long period of time. Driving the tuner and myself nuts with lambda sensors not working, issues with coolant temp sensor readings, wheel speed sensors suffering with too much noise, dash turning off randomly and many others problems.

As you’ll recall the tuner did a great job to use the ECU software to find work arounds with all of these issues which was less than ideal, expensive and very time consuming.

The car had gone back to Level Motorsport wiring (LMW) two or three times but the issue was never found and I was always assured it was not his fault, he doubled down on the fact the wiring was all to spec.

The CDI was always the likely culprit due to the high level of EMI they can produce if not wired correctly. When Syvecs had the car, even they said the levels of EMI in the cockpit were sky high and affecting their laptops.

So whilst the weather has turned and I await gearbox I sought out a proper expert with experience of Syvecs, a wiring guy but also a tuner with his own dyno. I arranged to have the car shipped there last week. Having paid all of that money for the loom it’s always nagged at me that it isn’t perfect.

Within 30 mins of him checking the loom he found that the CDI had not been shielded at all, the wrong gauge wire used and all of the grounding incorrect and inadequate. Not only that, LMW ran the ECU/CDI loom together sandwiched at various junctions, being non shielded you can imagine the chaos, no shielding on the trigger wires either.

To solve, a new CDI loom is being fabricated, wired with M&W spec, shielded and earthed correctly with a view of solving this 3 year debacle once and for all. It will take a week or two but I’m feeling positive for the fix. It means tuner can go back to how the car was designed to run from the start.

 

[RandomVillager]

I think I might do all the grounds now just to be sure

Not got quiet your problems

Yet

 

[mattdavies]

So whilst the weather has turned and I await gearbox I sought out a proper expert with experience of Syvecs, a wiring guy but also a tuner with his own dyno. I arranged to have the car shipped there last week. Having paid all of that money for the loom it’s always nagged at me that it isn’t perfect.

Within 30 mins of him checking the loom he found that the CDI had not been shielded at all, the wrong gauge wire used and all of the grounding incorrect and inadequate. Not only that, LMW ran the ECU/CDI loom together sandwiched at various junctions, being non shielded you can imagine the chaos, no shielding on the trigger wires either.

Glad you found the issue, its rubbish that there are people out there who claim to be masters of their trade but aren't.

Out of interest who did you take it to ? There aren't many Syvecs people about in the UK

 

[Francob]

Glad you found the issue, its rubbish that there are people out there who claim to be masters of their trade but aren't.

Out of interest who did you take it to ? There aren't many Syvecs people about in the UK

A place called Tatham Engineering near Spalding.