I had a good day or 2 of the car not starting before that though. The car was cranking but there was zero fuel pressure.
Thought I must have not put the dizzy or the fuel pump back together properly or something.. but eventually it turned out to be that I didn't have enough fuel in the tank to prime the pump - or that there was an air pocket before the pump.
So with 40l of 99 poured into the tank, it eventually coughed into life right at the end of the day when I was about to give up!
After this though I started getting what I think are 'lean pops' which are a nice word for scary bangs from the intake side of things, apparently caused by lean running. I thought it was the AFM to TB boot splitting open, and while that may be a cause I think it's actually a kind of 'front-fire'? And not good for cylinder heads apparently.
And indeed it seemed I was only getting around 30 PSI of fuel pressure, so I thought this might be the reason for the lean pops I then found a slight fuel leak from the in-line filter not being done up tightly enough, fixed that and now I'm getting a solid 36 PSI.
Next issue was this alarming set of readings from the gauges:
This was after the car had only ran about 5 min. So naturally I panicked and turned it off!
But the IR gun only said the external head temp was about 130 °F (I'm working in F because that's what the gauge is in!).
The ever helpful
@Larby then came to the rescue and suggested I check and clean up my engine earths. This not only fixed the gauges, but also my headlights which now stay on, and my wipers, and stopped the weird relay ticking noise when I turned the steering wheel (something to do with the horn). Result!
Now the gauges are not quote as extreme
