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Yes.

uglee wrote:Are you 100% sure the alternator is to blame and you put a £10 multimeter across the battery to see you were getting 14V when engine is running?

Peter Gidden - SBITS wrote:

bigal wrote:

Why not test the alternator in situ first? Beats guessing!

Because I'm a rubbish mechanic without all the gear.

jimGTS wrote:id be interested to see how it responded on an OEM ecu mind you!!!

Same as it would on PowerFC.

I have emailed the guy that supplied them to see if he still has them.

Who all has had them? My nur spec constantly blew the knock sensor. I've recently bought dravens engine and ecu however and he informed me his ran with no issues. So what is the deal with this ? My engine has suffered damage to the ringlands and the problems only happened after the exhaust was fitt...

My nur spec constantly blew the knock sensor. The information of a problem was clear, not sorting it would damage the engine next, and it did. There are way too many people with cars changing things without the knowledge to understand what they are doing, not just MR2s but it keeps us all in work. ...

I have a rev 3 turbo, it has a standard air intake temperature sensor, which is very slow to respond with up to date temps. (apexi pfc readings). I remember a few years ago you could get the sensor off a rx7 which worked on the mr2 and was more responsive, however i can no longer find this sensor, ...

If the clutch is not engaging you just have to find the pin in the body loom and repin to pin in engine loom.

ashley wrote:But it's all guess work based on the assumption that the free flowing exhaust has exposed an underlying issue with boost control...either way the driver should have spotted the symptoms and stopped driving it

In theory it could allow boost creep (depending on the waste gate set up). If this means that the car was running above safe boost and was consequently detonating, and the driver kept driving it like this, then yes- you'd kill the engine pretty quick. But if this was the case you'd expect the drive...

It needs a good wiggle to get it out of the pivot mounting mate Correct. Then be prepared to have to remove gearbox mount, lower subframe, remove exhaust B pipe. Not all always necessary, but quite normal to have to do so. How difficult are these things to do Peter? All fairly straightforward. But ...

LBA then SCC.

SOGA - not fit for purpose and reasonable expectation. Neither affected by warranty term.

Nails wrote:It needs a good wiggle to get it out of the pivot mounting mate

Correct.

Then be prepared to have to remove gearbox mount, lower subframe, remove exhaust B pipe. Not all always necessary, but quite normal to have to do so.

markstevieandmads wrote:I've used these out on track and for quite a few hundred miles now and not had a problem.
Even having to do an emergency stop because of some idiot and all was well.
I must be lucky.

No problem. At least you know the risk.

You'll never successfully drill out and retap such a small steel bolt out of an aluminium housing.

Secondhand distributor should cost you less than £30.

Kumakun wrote:Ignition

Well there's only 3 reasons:

1) it was already out
2) inlet cam has slipped a tooth
3) timing troll changed it one night without you knowing

Did you check the cam timing like i suggested?

I was expecting that but the rears are worse and they aren't carbotechs on the rear. BTW braking is excellent with great bite. You don't have Carbotecs on one axle only do you? [-X Mmmmm...yes. I've heard its not the way to go but I bought these carbotechs nearly new and got the best uprated pads f...

markstevieandmads wrote:I was expecting that but the rears are worse and they aren't carbotechs on the rear.

BTW braking is excellent with great bite.

You don't have Carbotecs on one axle only do you?

Kumakun wrote:Thanks all.
Somehow the timing was suddenly way off! I didn't touch anything, I swear!!
But it's all fixed now.

Cam timing or ignition timing?

2mad wrote:Will a st185 throttle sock 17861-88382 work might need to stretch it out a bit

IIRC it won't stretch, which is why we've made custom adaptors in the past.