warpc0il wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 16, 2019 11:32 am

The leading coils don't spark when turning on the starter, at least for the first few seconds.

Pretty sure I've said this before

TRAILING coils Dave, TRAILING

ChrisHolmes wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 17, 2019 7:46 am

Those numbers don’t look bad. Did Scott check for any other possible cause of the bad starting?

Um I'm sorry whut?

Irregardless, all the aftermarket cats/decats I've seen with sensors mounted in a different place still allow the factory O2 sensor cable to reach it without a problem.

What boost are you running? 0psi?

Whoa whoa whoa wadaminit WHOA

R u telling me

That 27p belts from 1976 turned out 2 b false economy?

I cannot brain this cognitive dissonance.

Just stick some spark testers on it for £10

That's was my favourite part of the M1, too ... before the speed cameras.

I don't quite understand how a refurb would reduce their strength and add more weight... what did you have in mind?

You sometimes have to be careful with powder coating - it seems like some alloys don't like the high heat that some companies use.

Park your car in your kitchen and hook the coils up to the alternator

Oh, pushed as in RPM! Sorry I thought you meant pushed regarding charge times. See my graph on Phil's Mazdaedit thread, you can safely charge D585s for twice as long as you would a Mazda coil at redline - yes it's less than what you get in the midrange, but like RRB pointed out your VE has dropped a...

Why would a D585 perform WORSE when you charge it for longer (I.e to the dwell they were designed to run at) ?

Edit: misunderstood

warpc0il wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 01, 2019 6:10 pm

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That guy was in the audience of a comedy club in London a year or so ago and was certainly looking a little worse for wear and um, not as well-spoken though, the lady he was with seemed a little more of a handful.

Negative.

They might not be wired in correctly.

I believe something along the lines of: red to a constant 12V supply (to keep it remembering the settings).
And yellow to a switchable 12V that actually powers the gauge and lights it up.

Something like that anyway, maybe.

98 isn't high.
I've had >110'C temps before.

Yeah I get what you mean. I was thinking mostly that an engine that has even compression across the faces Similarly, [even compression] has been wildly overestimated as [a good thing]. In the vast majority of cases, it means very little compared to results being high or low. I've tested cars with o...

Think of it like trying to light a fuse.

A bigger lighter only helps up to a point.

If your fuse is 1 meter away then it doesn't really matter how big your lighter is, realistically
A big ol' thick fuse (excess fuel/air to ignite when highly boosted) then you do need chunky coils.

Having a good ignition systems also going to help alot with starting up even with ehhh compression, surely? Not exactly - you can have the best ignition on the planet but it won't combat a lack of air/fuel mix. If anything, ignition makes the most difference when you have excess air/fuel to ignite ...

Coolant without the Bitrex is delicious, such a shame that it'll kill you as it's cheaper than Dr Pepper. It wasn't quite diesel, but me and a mate went camping before a day of wakeboarding - queue BBQ, drinking, debauchery and firebreathing with paraffin before heading off to bed. Said-mate woke up...

Quite a few apex seal manufacturers considering the market. Mazda (obv) Goopy (mostly obv) HME Hayward Rotary/Precision Ceramics Atkins RA Plus more I CBA to remember. I'm not sold on the idea that the main reason we don't have more development and competition is because of patents. Rotary engines a...

Keep in mind that cylinder deactivation in piston engines has the capability to control intake and exhaust valves to reduce pumping losses.

With our ports being fixed gaping holes with nothing that you can really do about it... yeah.

Ferrari is hybrid so that's cheating.

I am reliably informed that LC Rotary / LC Motorsports is "no more" as a company ... no idea how this affects the OP but I suppose that makes the decision to "de-list" them as rotary specialists on the forum a bit easier?

Re: Seafoam I did it to an engine once. Literally the last thing I did to it before I took the engine out and stripped it. Wasn't overly impressed tbh. I know it's not exactly going to suddenly turn the engine into a dishwasher or anything but meh, I doubt it does much (if anything in some cases). B...

It's where the cold pipes run, yes. Almost certainly just condensation.