Engine started

[timbo]

5 weeks til SVA and my engine now runs!! Apparently I'd wired up one of the relays incorrectly, but the electrician was fairly impressed with my amateur efforts! I'd successfully negotiated the BMW immobiliser at any rate.
The temperature gauge goes off the scale, I think it is a sender problem ie the BMW sender doesn't match properly with the gauge, so a new sender is needed (I think the gauge suppliers do them)
And discovered the reason the some of the warning lights weren't working - no bulbs
Tim

PS Peter
Thanks for the underlay source, it arrived very quickly! Let me know if I can help with your engine wiring.

[Patrick]

Well done, engine start is always great

[peterux]

Tim,
that's great news, well done. It'll be great to see and hear the first M52 Sportster!


My engine refit is on hold due to an extension to my garage for a large new workshop.
It'll have an automatic parts washer, a sink for de-greasing, extractor hood with fan for the fumes and an oven for paint drying with lots of storage for tools and work benches for engine re-building.

(Strangely, my wife calls it a 'kitchen' ............ but I need to google that to find out what she is talking about )

[timbo]

Engine won't start again! We're pretty sure its a problem with the codes between the ECU and immobiliser, so we've come up with a drastic solution - use the ECU, immobiliser and key from my current BMW (which I was going to scrap after finishing the Sportster anyway) which fortunately has the same MS42 DME, and at least I know it works!
On the plus side, the side exhausts are finished and looking good
Tim