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Luego Viento V8 First Start
Irony - 23/6/14 at 09:39 AM

After nearly five long years and cobbling an engine together with zero mechanical experience I have finally got my V8 Viento started!!!

After refusing to start due to no spark I swapped the crank sensor wires around (the old ones are still the best)and she turned over and fired straight away. Only running on four cylinders.



Found the coil problem. I had crimped a connector over the wire insulation and not the wire. The metal part of the wire was sitting down in the bullet without actually touching it! Started on all 8 then.



The sound isn't great because I think its too loud. No way is it passing the 99db limit for the IVA.

franky - 23/6/14 at 10:29 AM

well done

scudderfish - 23/6/14 at 11:39 AM

Excellent! The other fun way to cock it up (assuming EDIS) is to get the wires to two sides of a coil pack confused. Just stick some large exhaust cans on for the IVA and then put those nice ones back on later. My Fury only has a single cherry bomb 'silencer' on it

Irony - 23/6/14 at 12:37 PM

I can't get my megajolt to communicate with my laptop. It's the old Serial to USB adapter problem. Thinking of buying a crappy lappy just for this. The Megajolt system could be working with its original settings (bought it used from another Rover V8 owner) but it might be running in EDIS 'limp home' mode.

Chris_Xtreme - 23/6/14 at 01:00 PM

great work that man !!

always double the fun with the v8

scudderfish - 23/6/14 at 01:14 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Irony
I can't get my megajolt to communicate with my laptop. It's the old Serial to USB adapter problem. Thinking of buying a crappy lappy just for this. The Megajolt system could be working with its original settings (bought it used from another Rover V8 owner) but it might be running in EDIS 'limp home' mode.


Get an adapter with the FTDI chipset. You probably have a Prolific PL2303 (or more likely a very crappy copy of) and they suck.

You can test if it is in limp home or not by switching off the megajolt and seeing if there is any difference.

SteveWallace - 23/6/14 at 05:10 PM

Well done that man, great progress. Doesn't look like you've got much more to do to get to IVA.

With regard to the noise, you will recall that I had some problems on that front. I ended up buying a straight DB killer off e-bay, which I fixed into the end of the can with a couple of twists of lock wire. I couldn't just put it in the end of the pipe due to the bend. It dropped the noise from 102DB ish to just below 99.

wilkingj - 29/6/14 at 03:10 PM

quote:
Originally posted by scudderfish
quote:
Originally posted by Irony
I can't get my megajolt to communicate with my laptop. It's the old Serial to USB adapter problem. Thinking of buying a crappy lappy just for this. The Megajolt system could be working with its original settings (bought it used from another Rover V8 owner) but it might be running in EDIS 'limp home' mode.


Get an adapter with the FTDI chipset. You probably have a Prolific PL2303 (or more likely a very crappy copy of) and they suck.

You can test if it is in limp home or not by switching off the megajolt and seeing if there is any difference.



Definately... Get a FTDI chip one. Prolific chipsets are a real pain, mainly down to copies of the chip and cloned drivers.
cheapre than a laptop!

Geoff

Irony - 29/6/14 at 03:44 PM

Upplugged the megajolt and no change in the running of the engine. I assume the mj is not working. I have a few people donating old laptops so I will see what happens.