Damnation: The Cynos Project

God, me and these blog titles...

Anyway, no time was wasted and spent the following Saturday in Bournemouth again, this time swapping axles with Harvey...and what a nightmare. Swapping them around was easy and quick enough, but then we hit a snag - the bleed vavles on the old calipers were bent (most probably during transit to my house when I bought it), and consequently snapped off, so we went on to removing them. One was easy enough, but the other is still with my Harvey, just can't remove the remaining stud out, after literally toiling for hours!! Bit of a bummer as the parts from one of the axle is supposed to go to a guy in the States.



Anyway, as most of the day was spent trying to remove that one caliper, I couldn't swap turbochargers or do some other work I wanted to, but I did swap out the SARD Rising Rate Fuel Pressure regulator out for a stock one...why you may ask? Ran too rich, the dyno revealed an odd AFR trace - the mixture stayed lean till about 4750rpm, way after boost peaked which is obviously not a good situation really - and the SARD RRFPR was noisy on cold startup, so, I put it down to the SARD RRFPR failing, apparently the diamphrams are susceptible to failing, but I've had it just a year...

Any differences? Well, the car is FAR quieter now without the constant brake drag from the back!! Also, boost seems to be quicker to come in, probably due to the fact that it is fuelling properly now, and plus, the car is far more economical, woo! Had a bit of a scare when we started the car up and it idled at 3000rpm! Turns out I didn't seat the injectors well into the grommets in the head, doh!

It was also pointed out to me that the timing was fully retarded on the distributor, I had noticed it but never gave it any thought - would explain why the boost comes in so late, something to sort when I get the PowerFC on :lachen:. Oh, and what made me think it was a stick brake rather than a failing wheelbearing causing the noise at the back?