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Keep Going...I want to see this thing running, and hopefully at a a meet soon. Love the Starion (Or without the Spelling Mistake, Stallion)

I want it running, I'm not sure at the moment.
Blue smoke = oil.

...check for an air leak on the inlet track.

That's very possible, there are so many hoses going into the inlet! I'll have a look at that in a bit.
I actually drove it for the first time this morning. It was running fine, but idle was a bit off, but it was okay. Got about 1 mile before it was back to normal again (and had get a tow).
It's 'intermittent', the worst thing you can have.

Here's that needle!!

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Control relay is going ballistic, ticking and rattling which leads to the car cutting out? Otherwise, when there's no ticking, it's fine! Think this may be the problem, it's not mounted properly on the body at all!
Here's a further video if you really really want to watch an engine revving up a few times. At least it works.

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Same story so far, I've changed the injectors round and had it running, but saw smoke coming from around the turbo and switched it off immediately. Check oil and found it to be replaced by some grey watery liquid. Underneath the car -was- a big patch of what I thought was PAS fluid. There is NO level on the dipstick, the engine has pissed out whatever of this grey pissy stuff that it is using as lubrication.

I'm almost about to say the engine is totally f*cked, but I'm going to change the oil as I'm sure it was contaminated with water from a dodgy gasket on the throttle body. I'm pretty very sure it's water getting in, as it's grey and not 'head gaskety' if you know what I mean?

Ste/Totopop showed me what was petrol in the TB when I bought the car, but I think it was petrol AND coolant.

Didnt Clarkson kill one of these on topgear?....

Oil/filter/Spark plug change should be your first priority.

You need to find out if the 'tapping' is from the head or the block. Starting the engine knowing water was in the inlet wasnt a good idea and I fear you may have goosed the engine.

Dont worry too much about the mixture just yet, but dont rev the balls off it.

Tapping is just a 21 year old engine! Had new spark plugs, and 10 quid Tesco oil is going in tommorow to clean it out, and then some decent is going in.

Mixture could be fine, but I have to sort other things out! Have new CTS to go on and a few other bits to come.

...I think Neil will still be interested should you decide its not feasable

I'm pretty sure the engine's okay, I'd put something else in if it wasn't.

Something else....

If your thinking "Evo" its no where near a straight swap - the main problem being which gearbox

No, was thinking more of another Starion engine. Evo engine might interest me in the future, that's pretty obvious, but four figures just doesn't interest me.

I have a bit of experience with all that though, it was something I did with my dad in the summer holidays when I was growing up.

No need now, as Starion is running fine.

How you getting on bud?
I wanna see this out and about

I haven't tried it at all for a couple of days now, as it keeps cutting out at random. I'm talking about idling perfectly, throttle response is spot on, and then it just feels like it's not getting spark and it either cuts out, or as on the motorway the other night, flooring it prevents flooding the engine.

I bought injectors for it, the second of the two is pumping too much fuel I assume. Other than that, I can't fault it, it's been so well looked after.
I've bought new sensors from Mitsubishi for it, they still have all the parts available, most in the country.
If the injector doesn't cure it, I'll replace the engine.