Please help
I was Racing my Spitfire in the TSSC championship at Snetterton UK
yesterday when a strange misfire occurred on the green flag lap, which
nearly caused me to miss the start. I turned the engine off an re-started
it and the misfire cleared. I then raced without any problems at all.
I had experienced the same problem once before when running the day before
a race. The engine was ticking over and was up to temperature, when it
slowly died. I could not get the engine revs to increase with the throttle
and the engine died. When I re-started the misfire had gone. I have never
had a misfire when racing!
Why would the engine misfire then die after ticking over, only to restart
and run trouble free?
The following outlines my thinking so far.
1: Not fuel as I would have problems during race rpm
2: Not fouling plugs as the engine would not restart as easily as it does
3: Must be electrical because of the way it clears after restarting
4: This leaves the following electrical items
A: Coil
B: Condenser
C: Cracked Distributor Cap
D: Rev Limiter malfunction
For info, I run a 1500CC engine with points and Lucas distributor and Lucas
Sport coil.
Please help if you can. I think one of these will solve the problem but I
want to understand what is happening as well.
Russ
Http://www.btinternet.com/~rjmunns/
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