Hello my friend.Happy new year!!Love the thread, it's simply awesome!
Any update on installing K04 on AGU maybe?
A nice little trick I learned when I had my scooby to find faults in coil pack looms is to get a spray bottle and fill it with water, when the engine is running spray a tad over the looms and if you see any blue dazzles of light (HT voltage escaping looms and into water) you need some replacing doing. It's an old trick, but they're always the best...
Maf or ignition amplifier? Have you changed your fuel filter?
I take it on the new engine, you fitted a new pick up pipe?
A nice little trick I learned when I had my scooby to find faults in coil pack looms is to get a spray bottle and fill it with water, when the engine is running spray a tad over the looms and if you see any blue dazzles of light (HT voltage escaping looms and into water) you need some replacing doing. It's an old trick, but they're always the best...
Correct me if I'm wrong but surely what's passing thought the loom will be a standard 12 volts and will only get jumped up when it gets to the coil pack it self? . . Not like a HT lead is it
Correct. This is mainly to see if HT leads are working correctly. Also, thinking about it, what you should see IS a blue trace and if you don't, then the voltage isn't there, so your coil pack is duff. The more I think about it and the setup of how the Audi works in comparrison to the imprezza, I don't think this will work. Maybe worth a squirt to just see if there is anything obviously wrong, as long as you don't dowse your electrics with a hose pipe there will be no damage caused.
It was about 5 years ago when I did this and it was because I was getting a hesitant engine with a miss fire and this helped me fault find that a HT was f**ked and saved me spending £200+ on a new coil pack.
****excuse me if this makes no sense, I'm in work and doing a cheeky sniper reply.
Yes, try it. You have nothing to lose and could gain some useful information from it.
If you've replaced the engine, it could theoretically be a whole host of problems that it's hard to help diagnose over a forum, but I would take all advice on board and start from the most likely. Also, it's quite possible your ECU is out so as a free 30 mins test I would try disconnecting the battery and resetting ECU. (although you would have done this during an engine drop anyway)..
Also just read up and if spark plugs fixed the problem and then it reappeared after a week I would suggest removing them and looking at the gap or corrosion or something. Maybe your compression is off and bending the plugs when the engine heats up? This really isn't my forte and I suspect a more knowledgeable person (anyone on the forum that doesn't have 'Spatula' as their name) will come along shortly and chime in.
Good luck though dude, seems like you've been to hell and back with this problem!
Crazy mother ****ers, the lot of you.
Ok, I will write up a K04 conversion.
Why the **** not?!??Amazing thread! Just learned a lot.... And ****** myself laughing in the process!
But............. Why would you want to buy Quantum oil from TPS??
I'd prefer to use a Castrol/Shell/Petronas.Why the **** not?!??
Generally speaking I don't think anybody has ever documented a K03s bending/throwing a con rod without running stupid launch control or flat shift (damn South Africans).