As above, after the dilemma my company hit me with last night and Jaffa lending me his front bumper then helpping fit it, i took the Zed on it's foorst proper run in my ownership, only managed a 26 mile trip, was planning on taking it home to cambridge, but only got as far as the M25 turn off from the A3 then had to come back :(

 

The car wasnt responsive at all, put your foot down and pretty much nothing, top speed was 60, put your foot down to go faster and nother the enigine just revved higher!, was spluttering and coughting and really didnt sound well at all, and kept stalling!

 

Now the car was running fine, but i have done a few things since then:

 

Fitted BOV's in place of recircs, bought these with the bovs attached to the recirc pipe work, and was told i only had to put the top hose on from the plenum, the intake pipe work has been bunged and the other pipe work that goes back into the engine bay has also been bunged.

 

Fitted a new PCV vavle hose, only one havent had time to replace the valves or the other 3 hoses.

 

Fitted Smithy fuel line kit, no leaks and everything seams fine.

 

Fited a polished balance bar, again no leaks and everything seam fine.

 

That's it that i think that would affect the running of the car.

 

I feel that maybe i was mis informed or mis understood with reguards to the bov's and maybe it's that that's causing me the problemes

 

Has anybody got any ideas?

 

Cheers

 

Neil

sounds like a vacuum leak... can take a look tomorrow if you like

Cheers mate, as you gather didnt get very far! bumper looks good on my car.... think i'll keep it lol

I'm at work at 5 so if you wanna txt me or something can come over about lunch time, then whip your bumper off and give you a lift back.

 

Neil

Oh forgot to mention i put £30.00 in petrol which gave me about half a tank, the light was on and think she was running on vapor! when i got back tonight i had 1/4 of a tank...... 1/4 tank in 25 miles!!

As above, after the dilemma my company hit me with last night and Jaffa lending me his front bumper then helpping fit it, i took the Zed on it's foorst proper run in my ownership, only managed a 26 mile trip, was planning on taking it home to cambridge, but only got as far as the M25 turn off from the A3 then had to come back :(

 

The car wasnt responsive at all, put your foot down and pretty much nothing, top speed was 60, put your foot down to go faster and nother the enigine just revved higher!, was spluttering and coughting and really didnt sound well at all, and kept stalling!

 

Now the car was running fine, but i have done a few things since then:

 

Fitted BOV's in place of recircs, bought these with the bovs attached to the recirc pipe work, and was told i only had to put the top hose on from the plenum, the intake pipe work has been bunged and the other pipe work that goes back into the engine bay has also been bunged.

 

Fitted a new PCV vavle hose, only one havent had time to replace the valves or the other 3 hoses.

 

Fitted Smithy fuel line kit, no leaks and everything seams fine.

 

Fited a polished balance bar, again no leaks and everything seam fine.

 

That's it that i think that would affect the running of the car.

 

I feel that maybe i was mis informed or mis understood with reguards to the bov's and maybe it's that that's causing me the problemes

 

Has anybody got any ideas?

 

Cheers

 

Neil

 

what other pipe work in the engine bay are you talking about? The only pipe work that needs to be bunged is the hole in the intake pipe that the old recirc pipe came from, the other end of the recirc pipe work is where your bov's should be as in the pic i posted on your other thread, nothing in the engine bay needs to be bunged up, or maybe im miss understanding what you mean if you could put a pic up of how you have fitted the bov's may help. I think you may have reduced air flow into the engine which is why its not getting full power if you have bunged something up you shouldnt of

See i thought that, for some reason i can put pics up???

 

i try and explain it the best i can:

 

If you look at the fron of the car you have the recircs, the pipe work going into the intake maniflod, the pipe work that goes up and connects to the turbo pipes which in metal, the bov are fitted on to these, then from the bottom of the recircs you have another pipe that goes behind the radiator either side, i was lead to believe that i had to bung these up to???? the only was the bovs are connected is to the metal turbo pipes and the silicone hose that i have run from the origonl boost pressure location o the plenum,

 

or if you look at the lower pic in my other thread that you posted up you have s/s pipe work connecting to the hoses that i have bunged up??? does that make sense to you??

 

Cheers

 

Neil

See i thought that, for some reason i can put pics up???

 

i try and explain it the best i can:

 

If you look at the fron of the car you have the recircs, the pipe work going into the intake maniflod, the pipe work that goes up and connects to the turbo pipes which in metal, the bov are fitted on to these, then from the bottom of the recircs you have another pipe that goes behind the radiator either side, i was lead to believe that i had to bung these up to???? the only was the bovs are connected is to the metal turbo pipes and the silicone hose that i have run from the origonl boost pressure location o the plenum,

 

or if you look at the lower pic in my other thread that you posted up you have s/s pipe work connecting to the hoses that i have bunged up??? does that make sense to you??

 

Cheers

 

Neil

 

i think i see what your saying, by the sounds of it you have the bov's fitted to the in take pipe, the metal pipe you can feel if you put your hand up inside the nose? That is the 1 that needs to be bunged up. and bov's need to be fitted on the rubber pipes that go behind the rad as in pic, sounds like you have them on the wrong pipes and your losing intake air pressure through the bov's thats why your not getting the power and the car is running rich and burning to much juice because your having to be harder on the gas to get any power. You need the bov's on the turbo outlet side of the pipe work that goes into the intercooler not on the outlet side of the intercooler, which goes into the plenum(air intake). The vacuum pipes you use for the bov's are the ones the recircs used that are already there

The Bovs were already on the pipe work when i bought them, the metal pipe work does connect to the intercoolers ( right side of the drivers and left side of the passangers) basicly the bovs are in the same place as the recircs were. but on the bottom of my BOV's you can screw something on but nothing else came with the BOV's when i bought them, was told that it was left open? on the other thread you have a red dot that's the pipe work i bunged up, i know you said that's where you put the bov's but mine are on the same pipe in the same place using the small hole as the recircs? does that make any sence?

what make of bov's are they? The hole at the end could be where an adjuster should skrew into, if thats missing it possible it could be loosing pressure through the hole.

That carl... Jaffa came over this after noon and we got it sorted, the Bugges i used had come off, so put some new ones in and made sure they werent going anywhere.

 

Car still didntstart, looks like it was flooded.... baddly, so decided to take off tehcoil packs to dry them out, found out that 2 of the rubber ends were broken, so need to replace thoughs and 1 of the spark plugs broke, not sure if it was like that or i happened in the removal.

 

Thanks for your input though mate, greatly recieved.

 

Neil