Hello Gents,
I recently acquired a Titanium 182 and been starting to give the car a refresh details here: https://cliosport.net/threads/rusty-horatio-mcallister-titanium-182-take-3.853991/
I haven't really driven the car since acquiring it other than the few miles drive home so decided to take her out on a bit of a longer run, driving the car into work last week. Unfortunately this didn't go to plan, arriving at work only 7 miles away the car was feeling quite lumpy while parking up. After a long hard days works on the drive back home it started noticeably bogging down and misfiring upon acceleration and generally feeling rough.
No problem, lets whip out the diagnostics and see what we are dealing with...
Unfortunately had a fairly non descript DF110 fault code which didn't really point me to any anything specific. The DF308 fault I believe is just down to a modified induction kit so not too concerned with digging too deeply into this one.
Having done my research misfires on these are commonly ignition (Coil / Leads, Plugs), MAP, Injectors, Lambda / O2......
Seeing that I do want to get this as reliable as I possibly can and I don't mind investing in the car to achieve it, I loaded up the parts cannon and started firing away!!
So as it stands currently all the work so far has made no real difference other than the peace of mind that these common failure points hopefully won't cause me any heartaches in the future. I will say done these few bits I'm finding working on these little cars very a pleasure being fairly simple and easy to access.
Next steps - I'm still currently waiting on HT leads, I have two orders outstanding which hopefully will be arriving in the coming days but coming up to Christmas so getting hold of parts quickly has taken longer than I would usual expect. Really hoping the leads will solve it as I'm itching to be able to take it out to properly and stretch its legs.
I'll report back as and when I get it resolved but if anyone has any thoughts or advice please feel free to chime in
I recently acquired a Titanium 182 and been starting to give the car a refresh details here: https://cliosport.net/threads/rusty-horatio-mcallister-titanium-182-take-3.853991/
I haven't really driven the car since acquiring it other than the few miles drive home so decided to take her out on a bit of a longer run, driving the car into work last week. Unfortunately this didn't go to plan, arriving at work only 7 miles away the car was feeling quite lumpy while parking up. After a long hard days works on the drive back home it started noticeably bogging down and misfiring upon acceleration and generally feeling rough.
No problem, lets whip out the diagnostics and see what we are dealing with...
Unfortunately had a fairly non descript DF110 fault code which didn't really point me to any anything specific. The DF308 fault I believe is just down to a modified induction kit so not too concerned with digging too deeply into this one.
Having done my research misfires on these are commonly ignition (Coil / Leads, Plugs), MAP, Injectors, Lambda / O2......
Seeing that I do want to get this as reliable as I possibly can and I don't mind investing in the car to achieve it, I loaded up the parts cannon and started firing away!!
So as it stands currently all the work so far has made no real difference other than the peace of mind that these common failure points hopefully won't cause me any heartaches in the future. I will say done these few bits I'm finding working on these little cars very a pleasure being fairly simple and easy to access.
Next steps - I'm still currently waiting on HT leads, I have two orders outstanding which hopefully will be arriving in the coming days but coming up to Christmas so getting hold of parts quickly has taken longer than I would usual expect. Really hoping the leads will solve it as I'm itching to be able to take it out to properly and stretch its legs.
I'll report back as and when I get it resolved but if anyone has any thoughts or advice please feel free to chime in
