Sunflower Ph1 172
Such an awesome weekend, lets hope for good weather at Cadwell.
Dan/Jord, What gerabox, flywheel, starters are you using? All 172 stuff? Just a thought but it could be a mismatch of parts, starter not ngaging properly and failing prematurely
Looking good Jord, Looks like u need more front camber tho, now its not on the road you can. We went through 7 Valeo/Volvo alternators last year, gave up and stuck a genuine cup one on. They dont like the revs see.
Shame u were using the chicane at the end of the back straight, lake esses is a great corner
I bet only 1deg more is available at a push, as the inside of the wheel starts getting close to the shock. Will have to have a look sometime
Gutted about the battery / alternator. Are they covered by any warranty?
Car looks great in this pic http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n113/f0xy_2006/--- Cadwell Park July 2011/IMG_6093.jpg really mean
Absolutely awesome 20 minute session even though I nearly had my arse blown off by that battery. Absolutely insane grip in the corners on these slicks. Even though it's a treck half way across the country Cadwell Park is a supreme track. Whoever took some of them photos is a pro.
bloody hell mate. That's dodgy with the battery. Could have been worse I suppose. Where is that on your car? Not sure if dry cell ones explode. :S
that proper mental with the battery, what have the company who refurbed the alternator said. also is the starter fixed or is it still squelling.
should have kept to original steering wheel must have been one of the only original parts by now
edit: just checked start off thread and its not the original anyway so doesn't matter
Yeah it's a real pain in the ar*s what has happened. Such a waist of a track day even if you get a new alt and Bat from the company.
Your new camera is so much better than your old set up, video see's so much more. Does it have a slightly fisheye lense?
if your desperate mate i can pop up with some spare injectors and my ecu to see if either of them fix it.
Have you no spare injectors to try jord? Strange icv had gone dodgy :S
What software are you using to edit the sound on your videos or is that unedited?
I have same ContourHD camera and the sound quality is awful, distorted to hell. Mines 3years old and I know they've made changes to the mic on newer ones.
Looks like you've been quite unlucky! (trust me i know how you feel!)
That squeeky noise when you heard at the end of cranking is purely down to the starter motor alignment, they seem to be quite fussy, i had the same problem on my old F7 and also had it on the F4, you have to experiment with the small amount of adjustability you have until it sounds spot on.
As for injector 4 not firing, im not 100% sure on how the stock 172 ECU works, but i suspect it would fire them in pairs so if the injector driver was fried you would lose 2 injectors not 1, which may indicate an actual problem with the individual injector.
as laine says, the ecu runs semi sequential so you'd lose 2 injectors if it was a driver.
Oh dear mate, sounds a little similar to my engine not ideling but sounding better when revving and it was due to a poor connection on my TPS but it's all a little different because of the ecu and ITB's.
I don't mean to copy you but where did you get your LCD volt reader as the ones I can see on eBay are either 4 digit of look a bit pants!
Fingers crossed you get it running properly soon
as laine says, the ecu runs semi sequential so you'd lose 2 injectors if it was a driver.
Do you think its anything to do with vibrations rattling the solder to bits inside the ECU?
at least you know what it is that's wrong with it. its just the ball ache of getting another decoded and emulated ecu in time.