Well after a month of messing around with the wiring and finishing off the fuel system it was time to start attempt a start of the car. The first attempt while it sounded very nice was not what could be called running. The car fired on a single cylinder but was not enough to keep it running. So it was debugging time.
The first port of call was fixing the leaking fuel line which was caused by the engine sitting in the sun for far to many months. Turning it over again gave me very little extra joy. Inspecting the smoke coming out seemed to suggest that only one spark plug was giving me enough spark to ignite the engine.
It was back down to the local car store to get a spark plug socket and check out the plugs they had in stock. While all plugs were sparking some seemed to be carbonized to the point where the spark was weak. Back down to the car store again to get replacement plugs.
After inserting the new plugs into the engine I still could not get the engine running. Some playing around with the injectors. EG: Unplugging them from the electrics I worked out that only one, maybe two injectors were functioning, but not in any way that would enable the engine to run.
The injectors were taken to the local EFI specialist for a clean. He said that two injectors were so badly blocked that they were not working and two were working but producing only a little spray. But an hour on the cleaning machine sorted out that problem and I got back four 100% working injectors.
Since all this had happened over 4 days it was time to give it a rest for a day. I put the injectors back in the engine this morning and turned the car over. To my great excitement it started first go. I will find somewhere to upload the video.
One very happy car builder.
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