The first event of the year was a day to forget
Was really looking forward to the first event as I missed the first 3-4 events this year. Was excited to see what the winter changes were going to be like.
I had never been to this hillclimb when it wasn’t raining and the weather looked good.
The morning started off badly when I tried to use 2 cameras and my lap timer instead of 1 camera and the laptimer.
Neither camera came on when the car started. I thought maybe my usb port thing that I have wired in didn’t produce wnough power. So I went back to just one camera. When I plugged the timer and one camera back in, smoke came from my timer and the camera was dead. Looks like there was smoke behind the lens too.
Not a good start…
I plugged my old original camera in and its working fine. This really annoys me as I don’t know what caused this. I thought if there wasn’t enough power for 3 devices they just wouldn’t work, but because I fried them it must have drawn too much or had a voltage spike or something. Now I’m scared to plug stuff in.
That was fine. I then went down for first practice, lights went green and I nearly stalled it off the line. It had a really bad misfire. I hardly had enough power to get up the hill. I’ve had misfires before when water gets down past the coil into the plug. But I got new coil seals, siliconed the washers in the bonnet in and kept a rag on top of it all winter.
Took the coils out, didn’t look too bad. Blew out some moisture from cylinder one but nothing much. Didn't fix it.
Changed the plugs, no luck, changed the coils, no luck. Checked that all injectors were working and they all seemed to spray the same. Although I don’t know what a normal one looks like so not sure id its spraying enough etc. no codes being thrown on a basic code reader other than multiple misfire.
An interesting thing is, if you unplug each coil, the misfire gets worse for all coils, so it doesn’t seem to be one cylinder.
I’m at a bit of a loss, only thing I can think of is we put the new fuel line on and maybe there was a bit of dirt in the line and it clogged the injectors. I ordered a used fuel rail and injectors from ktec incase we can’t get ours cleaned.
I am worried that my usb device issue earlier on caused something.
I have that cheaper version of renault clip that there is a forum post about, I set it up but I hadn’t used it before. When I tried to use it today, I didn’t really know what I was doing and it seems to say the licence has run out
If anyone has any other ideas I’m all ears.