Well... Lets just say I didnt have a great weekend. The night was good... clubbing and whatnot... but the drive home... less enjoyable.
Driving back to my mates house, I hooked a corner a little fast (Yellow light... so i kinda pushed it a little) but nothing too exagerrated, a little understeer, but thats normal. What wasnt normal was the sudden loss of engine power. Engine just shut off completely. Bam. Nothing.
Still had electrical power, lights and everything were still on. Stopped on the side of the road, tried to restart it. Starter turned the engine over... but nothing.
Alas, I thought it may have been the dual spark mod I implemented earlier, may have come loose. Checking all connections and still no spark. Power tranistors were still good. Having no tools on me, i couldn't check anything, so a call to NRMA and 30 mins later diagnosed the problem to the hall effect sensor.
Being 40 odd KM from my house, and 300m from my mates, I towed it to his place, got a lift home, and headed to the wreckers that morning. Replacement dizzy cost $60 bucks, and installed into my car, ran beautifully.
Upon dismantling the dizzy in the car, plastic fragments and bits of metal were all inside. The Hall effect sensor was completely disintergrated. All of the fins were bent to shit... and the rotor button... again... had its screw removed (see
http://www.antrx.com/smf/index.php?topic=10694.0). Now this is twice this screw has come loose and cause major grief... when i find my industrial strength cylinder head thread locker im going to use copious amounts on this fucking screw... and make sure she never comes out again.
I reccomend you ca20e guys check the rotor screw for loosening.... and fix it asap.
This is twice my car has been rendered useless because of one screw...