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ive tried everything i can think of.i was so close to smashing the ecu to bits.Doesnt seem like it will ever work

think ive given up on this.cant get anything to work right so i think im just going to break the car and ge a nice g60. Cannot get the car to rev no matter what and about 5 mins ago i had it running it cut out, all the lights on the ms stayed on and the fuel pump ran on. oh well was worth a try - just a very expensive lesson learned!

yea i can rev it very slowly but if i try to blip the throttle it hesitates then revs.if i could get my head around what everyhting means i reckon i could sort it. ive also noticesd the afr goes lean when you try to blip it

lol this car is annoying me, i still cant get it to rev properly. ive tried loads of different ignition maps with no sucsess,even tried moving the dizzy to see if that made any difference. im pretty convinced its the acceleration enrichment settings but i have no idea what i need to do to get a better response heres the settings and a couple logs

keskin kt1 maybe? 9 inch wide they look phat!

cheers for the comment dirtytorque ,slowly getting there! i havent got a back box on the car at th moment thats why its a bit loud

oh and i almost forgot, the original coolant sensor was giving some strange readings before - like 160 deg c or more when warm! i had an old polo coolant sensor knocking around nd decided to give this a go. managed to get all the resistances at different temps to put into megatune. just a quick how to got a t piece from homebase some coolant pipe and two circlips heres the sensor and the finished article i placed this inline with the coolant pipe that comes out the side of the block. It reads much more acurate and responds a bit quicker to temperature changes

heres the vid, sorry about the quality was taken on a phone!

right it now starts better, just a lttle initial throttle and it bursts into life! chuffed about that. it now idles too. i still have the problem with reving, if i accelerate slowly its ok but if i try to rev it quickly there will be a delay before it actually does anything.if i put my foot down too far it just dies.Been looking on the msefi forum and i may need to change my acceleration enrichment settings .Forgot to get a log! doh! shall upload a video of it running off my pho ne

i was saying in your gallery that they leak. i have the excact same one. take the rail to pirtek - these guys specialise in fittings like these.they will give you a fitting that has an in built rubber washer to stop the leak. As the holes on the rail are slightly chamfered the washer didnt do anything, stil leaked. I ended up using injector o - rings between the fitting and this has worked fine. my fuel pressure is 3bar

thanks for the advice will give it a go tommorow with the pulswidths.when u say u say it needs to be within one percent do you mean 1 percent of the required fuel figure? once ive got the starting sorted i will move onto the ignition timing

right after much fiddling ive got the aux air valve on,suprisingly it works very well. heres a pic - if you follow the pipe above the pressure gauge (which comes from the intercooler) it goes through the air valve and into the inlet manifold now im having few more problems the first is that i cant get a factory like start. after a bout 5 or 6 seconds cranking it tries to start then gradually catches and idles nicely. is there any settings i can adjust to fix this? the next problem is that after its sat idling for a little bit .it starts hunting (afr readings fluctuating with it) then it just dies! if you restart it does the same thing. The final thing is if you try to rev it, its very slow to respond like a lag kind of feeling.im not sure what that could be. heres the log

thats where i got my fuel rail,good quality although i found the fittings to be shite - they leaked, a trip to pirtek for some proper fittings and some injector o-rings did the trick!

cheers for that, ive had someone on another forum say the same thing, so ill give that a whirl in the week

ive just managed to get my car running on megasquirt (1.9 16v turbo), but as i have no idle valve at the moment i have had to open the throttle to keep it going. i now want to hook up the vw idle valve (think its made by vdo - has two wires) ive have already changed the parts needed on the ms2 board but i am now stuck. does anyone know which pin on the valve itself is positive and which is negative? is the polarity important? i dont wanna risk dmaging anything

kool , if you need help just ask. i cant tell you how happy i am! I would be out there now but the battery on the laptop ran out lol. My next step is to get my bosch auxillary air valve fitted so i can permanently tune and set the idle

BIG UPDATE!!!! :D ive finally got it to idle!!!! im so happy. it needed more fuel, also increased the cold cranking pulswidth and slightly more ignition. the idle isnt perfect as the car warmed up pretty sharpish but at least it runs! really need to fiddle with the afterstart enrichments and warmup enrichments too. Every bit of advice dave gave me was bang on, wouldnt be this far without his help. quite a wierd feeling that ive put together the brains of my car and it actually works!

dont know if this is any help but try looking at other vw models, my mate has a calibra that has metal fuel lines that rust. We went to a scrappy and got some fuel lines off a golf estate and they work a treat. they are quite flexible

a 90 amp alternator wont charge a battery quicker than a 65 amp one. it will be able to cope with higher current draws (dont think you will be drawing 90 amps even with everything turned on) hope this helps

kool, how big is your stereo? ive got an all alpine setup with a 15 inch type r Sub and that never bothered the il 65 amp, a bigger alternator wont give you extra power. Its up to you tho 8) ps if you are looking for power have a look at the optima red / yellow top batteries

are you sure its the alternator? mine did this ages ago and it turned out to be the belt worn even though it didnt look it. Try a new belt ,its cheaper than an alternator! if it still squeels then at least you have a new belt to go with the new alternator

right ive just managed to open the throttle a bit. there is a screw that the throttle rests on. All i did was screw it in more and now the throttle is partway open.simpler than i thought! im hungry and tired so i wont be doing anything else tonight lol more updates tommorow!

ok ill have look now. i couldnt see an idle screw on the throttle body but maybe there is an ajustment for the throttle flap.if i can get the throttle to stay open a bit should i recalibrate this in megatune so that the tp is 0? thanks for all your help dave, wouldnt have got this far without you!

i was thinking that about the throttle also, not sure there is an adjustment as i couldnt see a screw,ill have to look that up. ill also give the other things you said a try 2moro. when u say give it a bit more ignition timing do you mean increase the figures around idle in the ignition table?

more progress - bumped the ignition cycles up to 250 from 75 in the afterstart enrichment - put some figures in the warmup enrichment section ranging from 180 at - 40c down to 100 at 71c - dropped the cranking pulswidth down to 8.7 has been the best start so far , it ran on for a bit longer - i thought it was going to run! but it packed out again heres the log