No power, poor idle not CAS!

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No power, poor idle not CAS!

Postby lewtus » Sun 17.07.2005, 17:43

Car with a poor start, engine light comes on for a few, rev it, it goes away. Boost goes to .6 bar but no power at all. guess was CAS but also has strong fuel smell as well near tank...wil check recall issue on this.
No fault code and resoldered CAS anyway, runs the same. Will try to run ElanScan as well next.
Plugged cat....? Also all plugs looked good and unifrom, air filter new, car has 42K miles.

Lew
PS this car is much easier than the x180R Esprit to work on though....just not much fun to drive ....yet.
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Postby lewtus » Sun 17.07.2005, 18:44

Ran ElanScan and got crazy numbers like speed of 247 mph, idle of 5500, spark advance of -7034.... some appeared correct but others unreal.
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Postby Candles » Sun 17.07.2005, 19:25

Have you done the simple paperclip check for fault codes? It normally is the first thing to try. Look here for instructions: http://www.lotuselancentral.com/repair/aldl.htm
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Postby lewtus » Mon 18.07.2005, 00:59

I did check for codes but there were none.
I did solve it....clogged fuel filter was the issue took one off my Esprit and viola! need to check timing now as I had the CAS off. Then off to the cam seal leak..then back to the x180R to finish work on that for some track days.
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