hmm has it really been a month.... where did it go i wonder... ah yes i remember, out the country...
Anyhoo spoke to Matt and the car has been rebuilt and he is putting on a few running in miles.
needed to have a new set of dowels as there was too much play with old ones, and a new set of lifters. the old ones had signs of impact damage; Matt can only surmise that due to the higher temps and pressures, the metal of the cams expanded and caused contact.
The good news is that the car is running better than it has been for a while and is just waiting on a 2 new tyres before it goes for an MOT (sat or monday).
Matt was just off to the shops to buy a boost gauge as well to fashion up the exhuast manifold pressure reader, and then we can see quite what the EMP is hitting on high boost high RPM situations....
Get the Aircon hopefully sorted as well...
However i was slightly concerned when Matt started talking about custom exhuast manifolds and 16v heads again; I think he shocked himself about being so interested in an 'an old tractor engine'. However it is not a route i plan to go down anytime soon!
More likely would be a VNT turbo if anything
