skidude

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Sometimes when trying to start the car, it turns over about half a turn, stops like the battery is dead, then continues and starts just fine.

The battery is fully charged, and was new 18months ago, so it shouldn't be a bad battery.

Didn't have this problem when the car was stock, but I don't recall when exactly it started. Sometime between when it was stock and when I was running MS and the 460cc injectors.

I know it does it when cold, but I think (actually haven't noticed) it also does it when warm. I'll have to pay attention and see if it's only a cold-start issue or an all-the-time issue.

Braineack

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my bet is it has too much PW while cranking.

budget racer

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could it simply be the starter getting ready to take a ****?

skidude

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It doesn't seem like it, since most of the time it works great. it's only once in a while that it hangs up like this.

skidude

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What sort of PW should I be running for 460cc on a 1.8?

Right now they're between 3.2 and 8.8 going down the temp scale.

RedMiata

When I was running my stand alone SDS and I had advanced timing to much I would get the same issue. Just a thought.

Tremiata

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Between this post and your other post about the fan mod, maybe your ignition switch has issues.

Braineack

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sounds like the stock values from the mspnp base map.

did you calculate them for larger injectors?

take 1ms off each. then multiply by the % increase of the 460s over the 265s.

so if the 160* value was 3.2. take 2.2 (since 1ms is opening and closing time) and multiply by .73 (27% larger) and get 1.6 and add the 1ms back in. This gives you 2.6 for the value.

skidude

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There must be my problem. I tried fixing those values for the new injectors but it wouldn't start. I forgot to take the opening and closing time into account. I'll re-do that and see how it goes.

Cowpoke

I have the same exact problem. For me, it was the wire on the starter shaking loose when the motor cranked over. I still haven't managed to fix it yet (the wire wont stay secured on the starter).

Cowpoke

Did you ever figure out what the problem was? I thought I had fixed it in my car (by securing the starter wire clip better) but it all of a sudden came back today and the car couldn't even turn over enough to start (luckily I was parked on a hill so I could roll-start it).

skidude

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Nope. I backed off the starting PW but it doesn't seem to have fixed the problem. Now it takes more cranks to start, but I think it only started doing that once I put the turbo on, which is strange.