I have had the pleasure of being given a 53 plate 231 and when given it I knew it needed a rebuild, as it had hot running issues, now I’m not a mechanic but have done bits of tinkering, but my friend who gave me the car ( as you can imagine very good friend to give me a car
Now I have enjoyed this process immensely and learning what bit I have about the engines for me has been a real treat, and after many days and weekends of playing with it, and rebuilding the engine, it is now back in the car, but with a couple of issues, and wondered if you good people could help, as I cannot seem to find the answers from my searches.
As in the title this will be just a track car, and will not be going on the road, so in the near future will be fully stripped with seats and harnesses to go in, so anything not required is being removed.
The issue I have is the car would fire on its own, new starter is on order and this should sort that out, as after a short bump start it does fire, but if left to idle it stalls, after keeping the refs up to about 3k for about 4-5 mins the engine just cut off, but up until then seemed to run very well and Rev very much better than before the build.
Is there something we should be looking at as to why this is cutting out? We spent many days watching videos and following guides to build the engine as all the information we had, and everything went very well, it has had a bit of porting work, and decat with exhaust and associated sensors disconnected as these won’t have a home any more.
If anyone can suggest what we can try it would be greatly appreciated, the wiring of all injectors has been double checked, and all ignition coils and leads and plugs are all new BHR ones, and a few other bits like ultra light fly wheel and pulleys.
Have any of you good folks any suggestions as we have only run it a few times till it cut off after about 5 mins, so didn’t want to keep running it in case anything was untoward.
As some other sensors have been disconnected does it also need the a remap to get it to run better or does it just need a good running in?