Where abouts is the car?
It could be a number of different things causing that issue, best to go back to basics and examine all the foundations from the start
If in Sydney or nearby I can help
Where abouts is the car?
It could be a number of different things causing that issue, best to go back to basics and examine all the foundations from the start
If in Sydney or nearby I can help
Thanks for the reply, I'm in Perth unfortunately.
Bugger
Any vacuum leaks?
I guess you need to work out if it's originally an lh2.2 or 2.4 setup. Does it still run a maf sensor? Maybe post a pic of the engine bay
timbo I'll post some pics tomorrow, pretty sure it's running a map, and wideband o2/lambda, and I think it is only used for fuel control.
It's running a coil and distributor, not sure if this is relevant, I am fairly intelligent but new to this sort of stuff.
I have the microsquirt manual and the tuning suite, but I am not willing to touch anything yet until I know more.
Am probably going to get a proper tune done when I have spare cash, but until then I want to learn as much as possible.
ramrod I think I am good there, was some dodgy lines but are replaced now
High idle could be as simple as a vacuum leak.
Check the idle air hoses for splits etc.
Check what kinda ignition setup it has, as maybe the tacho has never worked after the engine was swapped . We can advise on what wiring to check once we get a look at what setup its got.
The descriptions I’m seeing of this car & it’s current problems make me suspect that with a little bit of work (and prolly some knowledge from redblock experts) you can likely get a car that’s like a billionty times nicer than it currently is!
Forg that's a lot of times better
So under the throttle body was the black plastic tweaker, which I tweaked, and the in park revs have been bought under control now it seems.
Is there a chance that the throttle position sensor may be out if whack, if I understand things it's an ohms reading that I might need to check.
If so I need a multimeter, so a trip to the tool store as my fluke has had an accident and requires a new screen.
Sunshine 245 yes that is a possibility, there may also be a configuration in the microsquirt something along the lines of "minimum tps"
What this does is tell the computer if TPS <1% then enable idle control.
If the actual TPS is out (lets say 2% open), then the idle control circuit won't enable because its above the minimum tps threshold
also just thinking out loud, check the part number on the TPS itself
I wonder if the previous owner used an lh2.4 on/off or changed it to an 850 style potentiometer
May I suggest you give Jake @ West Coast European in Bayswater a holler, he looks after our 142 and 245, used to be at Perth Swedish. Highly recommend!
KBee awesome thanks mate I will hit him up
You need a tuner that knows MS
nugget_940 it's got a Bosch 0280122001, so a potentiometer I believe
Is the Microsquirt only running the fuel side of things? not the sparks too?
GingerNinja it has a distributor controlling spark and a hall effect? sensor for rpm input to the squirt
Sunshine 245 yeah but what fires the coil, the microsquirt or the stock 240 ignition controller?