My Supercharged V8 Capri Conversion

Ian Anderson · Post by **Ian Anderson** » Sun Oct 25, 2009 10:23 pm

Use the Sat Nav!It will tell you you're over the limit!

IAn

Post by **Coops** » Sun Oct 25, 2009 10:37 pm

Ian Anderson wrote:Use the Sat Nav!It will tell you you're over the limit!

IAn

kiwicar · Post by **kiwicar** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 6:48 am

Don't need the revcounter on the track, if Perry is in front of you, you aint reving it hard enough. . . . Simples!

Mike

ChrisJC · Post by **ChrisJC** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 8:04 am

Can't you use your laptop with a tacho on the display?

Chris.

Post by **Coops** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 5:15 pm

i can chris yeah, but its a bit hard with laptop on passengers seat,
my race tach is on the screen pillar right next to the screen so no matter where you look its in the corner of your eye

you can order a resisstor to get it to work, but looked on maplins etc not sure which one to get.
http://195.159.109.134/vemsuk/forum/ind ... l#msg10041

ChrisJC · Post by **ChrisJC** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 5:31 pm

Just print that sheet out, go into Maplins and ask the spotty geek. Will be no problem at all.

Chris.

Post by **Coops** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 6:10 pm

right been told i need a 1000ohm up to 2000ohm resistor.
ones listed on maplins are only 100-300ohm.

r2d2hp · Post by **r2d2hp** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 6:42 pm

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=341607

Post by **Coops** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 7:08 pm

Ta Reg,
but just ordered some off ebay,

the car now starts from cold with no throttle,
on of the vems developers is working on my msq,
and so far its been wicked,
the hot start is now a no go, but i now have another moddified msq to try with the hot start parameters played with also,

Post by **Coops** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 2:52 pm

car is slowly getting better hot starting,
if you catch it with a quick blip of the throttle after she fires it will idle as normal,
if you crank it on the key and let it fire it runs for a few seconds then dies.

speedo now works, fitted the new speedo cable and it didnt cure it

the new drive gear i fitted from Jim for some reason the drive gear got mashed in the gearbox,
removed it and replaced with an orange drive and all works fine now.

SO MOT in the morning

the furthest the car has traveled in one jorney,
i hope everything goes ok

Post by **katanaman** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 5:15 pm

sure it will, good luck T with the MOT and shakedown.

Post by **Coops** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 5:32 pm

cheers marki,
just been looking over my old 3.9 msq,
and think i may of found the hot start prob,
the stepper settings for cold are the same, and she cold starts,
the stepper settings for hot on the 3.9 to the 4.6 msq is different by a lot,
the 4.6 settings are the same hot /cold
where as the 3.9 is 160 cold
100 hot
will try the 3.9 stepper settings after the mot and see if it starts.

Post by **Coops** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 10:46 am

It has passed !!!!!!! with flying colours

and now hot starts,
and is now also taxed

nearly lost it 6 times today going to mot

CastleMGBV8 · Post by **CastleMGBV8** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 11:44 am

Tony,

Great news, you must be delighted.

Yes a combination of wet roads and double the original 3.0 power output will have the tail wagging.

Capris always were a bit tail happy but I loved my 3.0S you could chuck it about and always get the tail back in line, and it never got me into trouble, and that was a standard car and I was a bit of a hooligan in those days.

Perhaps a stronger throttle return spring will keep you out of trouble, probably not

Kevin.

topcatcustom · Post by **topcatcustom** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:10 pm

Well done Tony! Happy driving!!!