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All in and back on the road:

Oldiebut goodie wrote:All in and back on the road:

Did you do anythink to the inlet manifold for clearance away from the chassis rail.

See my post on page 2.

Oldiebut goodie wrote:All in and back on the road:

Looks sweet as a nut, im gonna have to give mine a degrease and a good blasting with the jetwash now tho....

It helps to have a reasonably good engine to start with, for all it's spilt oil and coolant flanges that it came with it was in good nick. Not bad for an engine bought blind!

wow..i bet that took more than 5 litres of swarfega

was it worth it obg ?

just noticed 2 wires to the pump ?

Definitely worth doing. Went up a small local hill that I used to struggle up in second in third, amazing. I gave the newer engine a good degrease as I hate working on a dirty engine with the chance of shyte dropping into something that I forgot to plug.
One wire is a spare that I used whilst trialling a timed solenoid operated cold start - it didn't work as well as I hoped it would so reverted to the cable method.

so as a 'now' 1y convert do you wish you had done it a while ago ?...i know you were well happy with the 1.6 but still...also metal mickey has been umm'ing and arrr'ing over this for years

and...with that air filter what noise levels are you getting ?

Must say when I did mine I found that without the original "snorkel" that lives in the corner post it was very noisy BUT I think this gives a bit of restriction to the airflow ? Probably better without it but noisier ? Perhaps you have the answer O B G with the K N set up.

Oldiebut goodie wrote:Definitely worth doing. Went up a small local hill that I used to struggle up in second in third, amazing. I gave the newer engine a good degrease as I hate working on a dirty engine with the chance of shyte dropping into something that I forgot to plug.
One wire is a spare that I used whilst trialling a timed solenoid operated cold start - it didn't work as well as I hoped it would so reverted to the cable method.

Bent Hill ?

alreet pete

the inlet manifold is going to help loads too.is the egr valve working too ?

peteabbott wrote:

Oldiebut goodie wrote:Definitely worth doing. Went up a small local hill that I used to struggle up in second in third, amazing. I gave the newer engine a good degrease as I hate working on a dirty engine with the chance of shyte dropping into something that I forgot to plug.
One wire is a spare that I used whilst trialling a timed solenoid operated cold start - it didn't work as well as I hoped it would so reverted to the cable method.

Bent Hill ?

Convalescent!
I'll come up and try Bishop's Hill soon. Should be third gear but will try it in 5th and 4th first.

weldore wrote:alreet pete

the inlet manifold is going to help loads too.is the egr valve working too ?

EGR exactly as the original on the engine as it came. I was in two minds as to whether to keep it or not as the inlet manifold was full of shyte, will see how it pans out - if it gets choked I will blank it off.