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Is it possible there's air being drawn in the suction line? Assuming if you were running off a bottle you were using a small bit of good hose, so maybe unlikely. Could the rail be choked?

This might seem obvious but have you checked the battery is ok?

Spotted at about quarter to 8 tonight. Only caught it after it went by so couldnt see the plate. Looked shiny from a distance anyway!

@frayz Yeah I haven't measured anything up but I'd assume I could use up 3 square metres quite quickly. I'll put some 12mm at the front where the stock foam used to be and the boot floor and see what's left! Cheers for the advice

Looks the business! Do you think the 12mm super liner is likely to be too thick for some sections? 6mm seems to be out of stock at the minute

@frayz Hi mate, been looking through the thread and was wondering if that's an OEM boot carpet you have? I'm sure I have a much smaller section for the boot, doesn't extend to the front seats. My cars been off the road for a while and water has been getting in, so have stripped all my carpets...

Yeah I looked for one when i set my passenger airbag off as the car wouldnt start. Just needed the code cleared though.

Have you got a multimeter? Should probably check for voltage at the pump with the ignition on and work your way back

Thought I'd add in for anyone's future reference, just got the starter out, tried turning it every which way to get it out the chassis leg past the manifold but was not happening. Ended up getting it out by turning it vertically (arse end up) and lifting out from the top.

@bloke glenrothes

@STEVE.M You know, I wouldnt be surprised if thats what it is. I dont remember noticing that bit, I had some grief with the manifold as the threads at the flange stripped and ended up helicoiling them so its been on and off a few times. Regarding the light, I dont think so, unless its the EML...

@STEVE.M Cant work out where you mean on that pic, arrow looks like its pointing to the rear of the inlet? @bloke Dont use facebook im afraid, will try to have a look around

Looks like it'll be monday now before they get back to me - if they come back saying that the throttle body hasn't sorted it and they suspect an ecu issue, would you advise taking it elsewhere, and if so, do you know anywhere local to myself that has a good rep?

Definitely not, no. Is that at the throttle body?

It's over-revving if anything, his thoughts were I better make sure I can sort the throttle cheaply before I go spending money on more lambdas.

Relatively, did replace the gasket. Whats the best way to check for a leak?

Dropped off the throttle body today, wasn't expecting me to have it so quickly and says it might be monday until they get round to it ? Apparently they were using clip to calibrate the throttle, but it wouldn't stay on and is revving itself again

Glenrothes, Fife

They seem to be quite well reviewed, not much urgency though Itd have to be said. Have had the car a week now and only got back to me today

Not sure exactly, I'll find out tomorrow for you

Thanks for the info bud, pretty sure the one i got from eurocarparts was in a blue box too! Yep, definitely is a code for the heater circuit, not that im terribly knowledgeable on the subject but I'm fairly sure it's independent of the sensor circuit code. Funnily enough that guy had a flamer...

It did clear my code when I put it in but in fairness it was only the code for the heater circuit. Are those lambdas you linked definitely genuine? That seems an awfully good price

Blue, it's in lochgelly. I actually changed the rear lambda not long ago, chaps in the garage said they can't get a reading off it though. Was eurocarparts I got it from so shouldn't have a problem returning it anyway - cheers for the link

I did actually take the throttle body off to see if it was gunked up - it wasn't but don't suppose that would rule out an electronic fault

Sorry guys, I've missed out some key information here. Before I took the car for mot I had been getting fluctuating revs at idle, jumping between 1 and 2k and sometimes steadily increasing until I found a gear/cut the ignition. It was intermittent but seemed to have ironed itself out, it wasn't...

My emissions were way out of spec, it's in an auto electrics shop and they said that the lamdas are gone and they couldn't recalibrate the throttle - said if it isn't the throttle body it's likely to be an ecu issue, just praying that's not the case

My 182 is in the garage at the minute and they suspect the throttle body, have found someone breaking a 172 locally. Are these the same unit?

I think I'm somewhat on your wavelength, interested to see how you get on with it. I'll leave you to it, feel like I've binge watched a series and am now impatiently waiting on the next episode ?

Hi mate, like many before me I've been completely absorbed and read your thread start to finish, beautiful and creative work! I'm sure you'll appreciate it in the years to come having documented it so thoroughly too. I do have a question about the naca vents though. I'm not an engineer per se...

That's a good thing a suppose! As I say you need to separate the inlet to access the spark plugs so if they were testing compression or something that would make sense as to why it was off. Seems a daft design really but the other FWD cars ive owned had the exhaust coming out the front.