Well after 5 years of basically sitting my car is finally running great. I had it tuned last June but it started puking coolant out the overflow on the dyno so it sat again until a couple months ago. I replaced the HG's and no more coolant puke and the car runs and drives great. Put 75 miles on it yesterday so I am pretty confident in it being right. The clutch is on its last leg, but I have the new one waiting for install so no biggie.
There is a lingering problem however and its kind of a big deal. Ever since a little over a year ago when the motor was put together before, the battery would die pretty easy. It was attributed to the fact that the car was never driven and mainly just started repeatedly to test things etc without any drive time so I didn't think a whole lot of it. So before the dyno tune when it was driveable I had the battery recharged and after 1-2 days of not driving it it was totally dead. From there on out I began disconnecting the battery every time the car was turned off. On the dyno it obviously wasnt unhooked every time it was turned off though and by the end of the couple hours it was having a hard time starting.
Well, fast forward a year to now and I have been disconnecting it every time the car is shut off and thus far (5 or so starts per day the last 2 days) it has start every time although it seems to crank slightly slower after a day of starts.
Now I know some peoples cars crank slow normally, but when it is cranking the volts drop way down to the bottom and you can tell its not a powerful start. The whole reason I began disconnecting the battery was because I was under the impression there had to be some sort of a current draw when it sat, which I tried to rule out by disconnecting the battery each time to see if it still had issues. I had the alternator tested two days ago and it tested good plus it is only a few years old and the usage is only equal to prolly a summer or less. Also I drove the car yesterday for probably an hour straight yesterday and had no charging issues at all.
Since the alternator is most likely good and the battery is disconnected right after the car is shut off, why wouldn't it have good power starting up each time?
Also, I have a fan module from the auto parts store that turns the high speed fan on at a certain temp etc. I am wondering if that was perhaps the draw when the car was off?
Sorry for how insanely long this is. Any help is greatly appreciated.
There is a lingering problem however and its kind of a big deal. Ever since a little over a year ago when the motor was put together before, the battery would die pretty easy. It was attributed to the fact that the car was never driven and mainly just started repeatedly to test things etc without any drive time so I didn't think a whole lot of it. So before the dyno tune when it was driveable I had the battery recharged and after 1-2 days of not driving it it was totally dead. From there on out I began disconnecting the battery every time the car was turned off. On the dyno it obviously wasnt unhooked every time it was turned off though and by the end of the couple hours it was having a hard time starting.
Well, fast forward a year to now and I have been disconnecting it every time the car is shut off and thus far (5 or so starts per day the last 2 days) it has start every time although it seems to crank slightly slower after a day of starts.
Now I know some peoples cars crank slow normally, but when it is cranking the volts drop way down to the bottom and you can tell its not a powerful start. The whole reason I began disconnecting the battery was because I was under the impression there had to be some sort of a current draw when it sat, which I tried to rule out by disconnecting the battery each time to see if it still had issues. I had the alternator tested two days ago and it tested good plus it is only a few years old and the usage is only equal to prolly a summer or less. Also I drove the car yesterday for probably an hour straight yesterday and had no charging issues at all.
Since the alternator is most likely good and the battery is disconnected right after the car is shut off, why wouldn't it have good power starting up each time?
Also, I have a fan module from the auto parts store that turns the high speed fan on at a certain temp etc. I am wondering if that was perhaps the draw when the car was off?
Sorry for how insanely long this is. Any help is greatly appreciated.
