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I might have just had a breakthrough on this one!

I just spoke to Allan, (the original owner of DTA), I explained the situation and straight away he said that you must wire the coils, not in the normal engine firing order, but in the order that the pistons come to the top of their stroke. select 10 cylinder (which we have done), nothing else. He said this will definitely be the problem and it will start straight away. He said determine what the order is by using a screwdriver down the bore of each cylinder in turn, then move the pins in the ecu connector accordingly.

confused....

would that not be firing order then ?

In lieu of wiring changes, could you change the firing angles instead ?

No, because one may be on its exhaust stroke.

I do recall seeing special instruction for the Audi 5 cyl engine and setting to 10 in general engine settings. But not sure where, probably in an old manual

But presumably it's a wasted/twin spark...so both do actually fire anyway ? Or maybe not.

Yea, there was definitely some 5cy specific instructions at some point

P8 instructions

Thanks Stevie,

the normal firing order as cast onto the cylinder head of this engine is 12453 so I will have to do the check and see what order the come to the top. I'm not sure about that injector order, how come cyls 3 & 4 on output 6? That doesn't look right.
I read on Wikipedia that there are only 2 variations of firing order on a 5 cylinder engine, 12453 or 15234 (as per the example you showed from the P8 wiring diagram special instructions.)

Martin

Interesting, I didn't know that. I'll dig in to the code and find out why.

However, there's no need for screwdrivers, when maths will do the trick.
A 5 cylinder engine fires every 720/5 = 144 degrees. Adding 360 degrees and adjusting so the values are within 0 - 720 degrees shows the plugs must be wired in 1-5-2-3-4 as per the P8 for this engine.
I would wire the injectors in firing order, so 12453.

Maths below for this engine:

Cyl 1 fires at 0 and TDC Exhaust is at 360
Cyl 2 fires at 144 and TDC Exhaust is at 504
Cyl 4 fires at 288 and TDC Exhaust is at 648
Cyl 5 fires at 432 and TDC Exhaust is at 72
Cyl 3 fires at 576 and TDC Exhaust is at 216

So the pistons will be at TDC at 0 (1), 72 (5), 144 (2), 216 (3) and 288 (4)

ETA:
Penny's dropped as to why this is.
There is no cam sensor, so the ECU doesn't know which cylinder is at TDC. It simply fires the outputs every 72 degrees, which is 360 / 5.

I'll update the S Series documentation to add this information somewhere.

Excellent thanks Alex.

The audi i made last year i also got to run properly after it was set up as p8 instructions

So this engine just doesnt have an OEM cam sensor ?

And if it did have a phase sensor....everything would go back to normal ?