Project 2456- Matthew Nickels, Lisburn, NI

[tourettes tony]

good luck with it matt, let us know how you get on and post a vid if you can

[mnickels]

Just got a quote for insurance. £386 from Heighway.

Not bad considering my first Delorean was £1900 as I was under 25. 3 years later and it is 1/6.

[neal]

Matthew, Good luck with the start up, Looking forward to seeing 2456 At Eurofest.

[mnickels]

Matthew, Good luck with the start up, Looking forward to seeing 2456 At Eurofest.

Cheers Neal. Get your camera ready!

[Admin-bloke]

Get the engine startup posted up here !
I cant wait to hear those triple carbs suck in the air

[mnickels]

Run up time so need troubleshooting help.

As soon as I connect the battery the buzzer constantly goes and the instrument panel is dead when the key is turned. Also in the third position there is no starter motor although you can hear the current drain pulling the buzzer down. Where do I start? I thought something was connected wrong which may be right as ther is 52 ohms across the positive and negative of the battery, obviously with it disconnected.

[dmc4087]

Is the battery definately a good'un?

[mnickels]

Is the battery definately a good'un?

Brand spankin and my charger won't charge it any further.

[mnickels]

Is this right with the black on one stud and the browns on the other to the right? Where does this black then connect to?

[Admin-bloke]

Still on site so not refreshed my head with the manual yet but I am sure that the cable with the wires to the starter are 4 of brown cables. These go to the B+ side of the alternator.
On the B+ (again from memory!) there are 8 of brown cables, made up of 4 of cables to a ring terminal i.e. 2 ring terminals on the B+ alternator connection.

On the D like european cars, brown is supply live. Black is an earth/ ground return, usually with the engine block.

On the starter motor solenoid the top big terminal sould have 2 of big red cables, one from the main battery positive terminal, the other one to the jump start post. They should be the only big red cables in that area.
The bottom big terminal of the starter motor solenoid should have a short cable to the starter motor windings and should be pre-wired.

I think I had best take a pic of mine or something.

BTW if I remember your mounted twin coil arrangement, separately earth the backplane (i.e. metal mounting bracket) with a black cable to the engine block. Buy a cable with two ring terminals on sold in halfords near the batteries, that cable gauge.
The centre part of your arrangement there was a snipped of cable. I identified this as a 12v ignition switched supply you need here. This should be connected to the white/ ywllow wire that was on the top right of the ballast resistor.
Your coil arrangement is self contained and does not use the delorean wiring for triggering etc as this is what that board does.

Good luck.

If it all goes wrong I am there in May