Well while searching on ebay i came across a t reg ibiza cupra for sale as spares or repair. Being an apprentice mechanic i went to have a look at it to see just what was wrong with the engine. I came to the conclusion on how much i thought it was worth and bid on it and won it.
Got it home via a mates trailer and tried to work out why the engine was running rough. The guy said it just got slow and didn't let on to much.
This is how it looked when i got it.
Well after alot of head scratching i rewired the injection loom because there were 1-5strands of wire left on two of the multiplugs. Didn't sort the problem but it needed doing anyway. The fuel injectors got checked and came back all ok. The engine hesistated and hen started but ran like on three cylinders. Well i've got to the bottom of it. By the looks of it its had a head gasket fitted and the firing order was wrong so i just swapped 1 and 4 ht lead over and it ran on four cylinders.
I wanted the ar fully serviced before i put it on the road so changed the timing belt and water pump only to relise that whoever did the head gasket had set the static timing for the distributor wrong and it was 90 degrees out so when i had cyl1 at tdc the rotor arm was actually pointing in the wrong place. So with the new belt on and tensioner and the dizzy timing set the engine started and ran properly
WAHOO!!
Just a few pictures of the progress i've made so far:
Service bits ready to fit:
Old timing belt change which was a dodel considering i've not done many before:
New timing belt fitted and tensioner with the engine turned over twice to make sure nothing locked up:
I love the car but hate the wheels
so when i've saved some money up i'll be changing them but not sure what i want yet. As spare parts are quite reasonable i've always wanted to go on a trackday meeting so when i'm happy with the setup i'll hopefully be joining some of you for some good track action
Got it home via a mates trailer and tried to work out why the engine was running rough. The guy said it just got slow and didn't let on to much.
This is how it looked when i got it.
Well after alot of head scratching i rewired the injection loom because there were 1-5strands of wire left on two of the multiplugs. Didn't sort the problem but it needed doing anyway. The fuel injectors got checked and came back all ok. The engine hesistated and hen started but ran like on three cylinders. Well i've got to the bottom of it. By the looks of it its had a head gasket fitted and the firing order was wrong so i just swapped 1 and 4 ht lead over and it ran on four cylinders.
I wanted the ar fully serviced before i put it on the road so changed the timing belt and water pump only to relise that whoever did the head gasket had set the static timing for the distributor wrong and it was 90 degrees out so when i had cyl1 at tdc the rotor arm was actually pointing in the wrong place. So with the new belt on and tensioner and the dizzy timing set the engine started and ran properly
WAHOO!!Just a few pictures of the progress i've made so far:
Service bits ready to fit:
Old timing belt change which was a dodel considering i've not done many before:
New timing belt fitted and tensioner with the engine turned over twice to make sure nothing locked up:
I love the car but hate the wheels
so when i've saved some money up i'll be changing them but not sure what i want yet. As spare parts are quite reasonable i've always wanted to go on a trackday meeting so when i'm happy with the setup i'll hopefully be joining some of you for some good track action
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Seems to run better but probably just me.
