1st Gen R50 Cooper Most liked posts in thread: Urgent help needed!

Thanks everyone for sticking with me on this long road. The frustrating part is not knowing exactly what the issue was.

I believe the main problem was the fuel and the 4 hour long drive at high RPM. I believe the old battery ruined the alternator/kill switch which also destroyed the pulley rubbers. I think putting on the shorter V belt was the last nail in the coffin to throw the pulley off balance. All of these issues happened at once causing one big issue.

The good thing is the engine runs better than before! and I learned a lot, drank a lot and laughed a lot!

Pura Vide as they say here.

 

Actually I did look at Mexico 2016 last year but with the engine issue I ran out of time and funds. Now I'm waiting for 2016 to start, I even bought more Holey rims just in case.

 

Hahahaha good catch! I still feel like it's 2015 lol

 

The crank sensor and key arrived today so I'm confident the fault will be fixed. What I have noticed is the engine shuts off for a split second once in a while so I hope that is the duff key.

 

I had a spare one so I changed that. actually this is the second filter in 4000miles. Also the tools to adjust the springs seats on a coilover work great to pull apart the filter housing.

 

What's interesting is searching P0313 on the net I find folks with similar issues as me but no one pin pointed the problem and like you say with no codes to guide us it is difficult to pin point the problem. It's not raining so i'll pull the 02 sensors tonight and look for the spare MAP. We can fix it!

 

I took a look in the intake, there is black tar just around the intake ports on the head and the plastic intake is wet with some sticky stuff. The ports leading up to the valves have patches of brown film that also coats the valves. I can see the aluminium head in places but mostly the ports are covered in a brown film. I suppose it would not harm to try to clean out the ports.....any suggestions? Remember I'm in CR..LOL

Total have been in contact so I'm going the push for a complete fuel system replacement. Pump, filter, injectors, 02 sensors, plugs .

 

no luck this time. The Mini 1 driver 0

It is so frustrating as the engine runs perfect at 900rpm and at 4000rpm and up. I can blip the throttle no problem but at any constant rpm between 1500 to 3500 the fault happens. I should set the idle at 4000rpm and drive like that LOL

 

Booked in at 10am at BMW today. They can do it...I hope. I bet it will be something that makes me go DUH! why didn't I see that.