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Re: Mk1 F4R/172'd Track Car Project Got a handful of relays yesterday - including trying some off a known working car today (1.2 16v Mk2). The car eventually runs with them all, but it takes alot of playing round with ignition off/on as it did anyway - so I think its nothing to do with the...

Yeah he had green wheels on until yesterday... Looks good, apart from your front bumper seems to be missing paint lol.

I was boosting in the RSI turbo lol

Around and about last night, the steering problems OK now? Are you going to replace the 1.2 center section to match the engine? Will be strangling the F4R :(

Re: Mk1 F4R/172'd Track Car Project Yeah, im hoping its a sticky relay as im bored of fault finding. Its been fine for 4-5months, and just out of the blue this happens once again. Got a couple of spare relays im going to swap to later, hopefully the problem will go away. My fuel pump even runs...

Re: Mk1 F4R/172'd Track Car Project Lol, oh dear. Well f*ck knows what it was doing. Hammered it earlier, left it for about 20 minutes then it started first time. Who knows :(

Re: Mk1 F4R/172'd Track Car Project It will only start first time if its straight after its already been running... It wont start at all now unless you do the 'on off' thing twice, then start it.. What do you mean?

Re: Mk1 F4R/172'd Track Car Project Yeah ive seen it move on cranking in the past, Matteh said his did too. Il check when I go back out. Hmmmmm. Thing is, the 'twice - on off' trick works every time which is the odd thing!

Re: Mk1 F4R/172'd Track Car Project Isnt the Immo (injector/coilpack release) a different relay to the fuel pump/ECU relay? Im hoping swaping them round will change something, ive got a load of spares somewhere but it was p*ssing down earlier so didnt bother looking.. Im pretty much 100%...

Re: Mk1 F4R/172'd Track Car Project The gremlins are back - intermittent starting problems now! Over the past few days ive gone to start it and had nothing on the key, not even cranking from the starter motor. Quick tap of the solenoid and try again it usually fires up. No idea why as the...

Not sure as I have 172 clocks, but it goes very high on the gauge before it does

Yeah, well Adam had a 'f4r' throttle body that had 3 outlets on it on the bottom, turns out it was from a Laguna Patrick have you got any pictures?

Usually just the one, needs some hose on it going to the back of the rocker cover where the oil breather is

Its floating round on the net somewhere, I found it on another forum then Matteh told me Laine had said the same the day after!

Its a green plastic block clipped into the front of the clutch pedal mounting, you'l see it straight away. Push the pedal down, take it out, let the pedal up slowly and you will hear the ratchet click a few times, let go of it completely then... Trim the green block on the flat side by a few...

I had to adjust the pedal ratchet/trim the pedal stop to stop the gears being stiff and get full clutch pedal travel

If it was a LET the corsa would win quite easily I would think.. I had a cam'd valver (1.8) and could get away from my mates XE Corsa quite easily without any effort

About 15-20 pages from the back there is a diagram of the clocks, with all the pins of the connectors listed. They are all labelled with single letters.. Find the rev counter/tacho one and see what connector/pin it refers to on the diagram above it, then you can find it on the car - should be...

Coolant temp gauge working? I usually fill the system up, run it for 5-10mins and keep an eye on the gauge. Turn it off, then take the bleed screw out, when water starts coming out I put it back in and top the header tank up to suit. I then run it for 10min+ until the thermostat opens and you...

Ive not got my Haynes manual to hand, I can check tomorrow if you have not found out by then. Easy with that as its listed in the wiring diagrams in there!

Just a bog standard 10k Ohm metal film resistor, Maplins have them in store and other places

Which was a slight rewrite of what I wrote to you, lol!

Correct :) (if you are using Mk1 clocks)

lol

Yeah, rolled about 5 minutes before the end of the day as he was coming onto the start finish straight. Back end stepped out when his wheel touched the rumble strip then onto the grass and it dug in and rolled twice. Was not a pretty ending for the car, the driver got out unharmed though thankfully!

Re: Mk1 F4R/172'd Track Car Project Yeah I spotted the brakes, didnt realise it had that engine though! Cool.

Re: Mk1 F4R/172'd Track Car Project Yeah, they were parked next to us all day, I remember the passenger in the picture driving the 5. Cant remember who was driving in the video either, but I tried to find the guy after we had come in to find out more about the 5 but he was nowhere to be seen...

I did acctually try and find you after the Clio rolled and we were all getting a group photo, but I think you had gone? Oh well there is always next time... Problem is, when you own one you realise how much up-keep they require when being used as we do - becomes a nightmare lol.

Yeah, not worth it for the (mostly wet) afternoon then. Oh well, money saved can only be a good thing I guess!

How much were they after for the afternoon?