Well wires all seem fine!!!! Will have to wait for the dry weather to return to see if it's cured it's self...
Happened twice on Weds and twice today? Any ideas as to were I should start looking.
Ok it only happens at low speed or on idle.. Today is happened out-side my home with the car on idle and then also in Weston along the beach road.
I lose ALL electrical power. The dash goes out and then you re-start (took to goes today) push the start buttoen and then off you go. What I
don't want is for this to happen whilst on a striaght doing 70mph on a single lane with traffic behind.
My car is a Mk Indy Blade 919 lump.
Ignition circuit power feed is the first place to look, before and after switch or key power on.
Why it works when you push the button I have no idea but could be a relay tripping out
Loose battery terminal?
On an old motorbike of mine, it was a wire loose in the crimp, attached to the ignition barrel
Took hours to find it, and sometimes just driving over a crack in the road would trigger it to "lose all current"
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Originally posted by steve m
On an old motorbike of mine, it was a wire loose in the crimp, attached to the ignition barrel
Took hours to find it, and sometimes just driving over a crack in the road would trigger it to "lose all current"
Well wires all seem fine!!!! Will have to wait for the dry weather to return to see if it's cured it's self...
We had this problem with our Zetec, we traced it back to the ignition barrel, bad contacts inside. I suggest you take a look at more terminals 
Sounds like a bad earth to me.
Hope car is going ok.
I do miss it
It's happened again..... This time I was on a bigish (Bowerhill) round-a-bout.. A fellow 7 owner pulled up to help me push my car off the main
road. Offered to tow me but neither of us had a rope..
Anyway after about 15mins I got it going away only for it to happen a further 2 miles down the road. Got back to my unit and its now fine!!! Drove
home with out any problems.. Gonna pop out in a mo for a 20 mile run..If it is a bad earth it could take a while to find it
You don't need to drive it to find the problem, simply start it and systematically work over all the major power wiring pulling to see if you
have a dodgy connection. If you find nothing tap the ignition barrel.
Shaun.
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Originally posted by ShaunB
You don't need to drive it to find the problem, simply start it and systematically work over all the major power wiring pulling to see if you have a dodgy connection. If you find nothing tap the ignition barrel.
Shaun.
Systematically disconnect your earths, clean the contact faces with sandpaper and re-connect?
Phil
I had a similar thing with a dodgy main earth cable onto the chassis. Cleaned up all the main lead connections and it sorted it.
Cheers guy's, guess with this crappy weather its the ideal time to do it..
Will let you know how it goes...
Hopefully ive found the problem!!! It looks like it was the main fuse connection thingy.. There's a plug type thing and the terminals were
dirty and you could easlier pull it part. All cleaned and secured with a zip-tie. Test run yesterday was good and will rack up a few miles today (I
hope). I do hope this problem can be put to bed now and will wait for the next challange 
Ah the joys of kit car ownership - little problems to solve and solutions to invent - still couldn't tell you to this day if I enjoy tinkering or
driving more...