ENGINE LIGHT?!

[AE92-5ONIC]

Just finished putting the engine back in the Trueno after a complete overhaul and heavy porting and a little increase in the compression ratio.

Ok, here's the story. Start the engine, idles fine (the timing isn't perfect yet, but close) when I begin to rev the car 30secs to a min later the engine light turns on. The car is blowing a bit of smoke from the exhaust (i'm guessing from the timing being out a little bit), but I still think the smoke is excessive. another point I should also make is that the knock sensor slightly broke while transporting the engine, however the wires were still connected and was easy enough to glue back together.

Also, the exhaust is not completely fastened (still have to put the front exhaust mount on) so there is a little movement of the exhaust, i'm not sure if it is enough to trigger anything like a knock sensor though.

EDIT: Also airconditioning has been removed.
Appart from that, i'm fairly clueless on what it could be. Any ideas?

[Alex B]

Have you put it in diag mode to get the fault code?

[AE92-5ONIC]

Nah, just finished putting everything together a few hours ago, so haven't had time to run it into an auto-electrician yet (as they work gentlemans hours )

[rollaholic]

is it still the standard ecu? do it yourself dude, theres bound to be a guide in the FAQ section

[AE92-5ONIC]

Yeah standard ecu. Been looking around the whole engine for about 1 hour and a half, can't find a thing apart from what i've listed above.

[RobertC]

Yeah standard ecu. Been looking around the whole engine for about 1 hour and a half, can't find a thing apart from what i've listed above.

tried bridging the diognostics plug to get the error code? detail here

[AE92-5ONIC]

Yeah standard ecu. Been looking around the whole engine for about 1 hour and a half, can't find a thing apart from what i've listed above.

tried bridging the diognostics plug to get the error code? detail here

Wow, thanks for that! didn't realise you could get error codes without a scanning tool, will give it a go tomorrow morning.

[matt dunn]

\ another point I should also make is that the knock sensor slightly broke while transporting the engine, however the wires were still connected and was easy enough to glue back together.

going by that I would be 99% sure you need a new knock sensor.
They are a very sensitive item and if it required glue, it is buggered.

[AE92-5ONIC]

Yep error 52 - Knock sensor signal, cheers guys.