Removed and resealed my Power Steering pump-well I assisted-Patrick, Ian and Pete.

What a day! Typing with very black fingernails. All is good!

 

Luckily I have access to a really skilled guy that used to work for us- I dropped off the instrumentcluster because it had lots of small malfunctions, and he soldered all the contact points, made them longer and wrapped them around the edge of the plastic, and glued them in place- and sudenly the whole "pling center" came alive

 

i drove mine to my sons soccer game yesterday. got lots of attention. we were at a sports park with a few thousand people at various little league base ballgames, soccer games, etc....

getting ready to put the girl up for a few weeks to pull the dash..

doing new seat leather, installing a classic 9 dash cover (alcantara),new door leather,

motor moounts
oil pan gasket
power steering rack reseal
powder coat intake

removing the covers to inspect PKtensioner, belt, h20 pump.

 

I cured my hot-engine, noisy tappet problem :-) I've had the car a year now and a while ago noticed noisy tappets occasionally. I looked at a few threads on here and an oil additive seemed the way to go. Can't get the Swepco stuff here, and US suppliers won't ship it due to HazChem regulations so I used a bottle of Wynn's tappet cleaner which did not change the problem. Nor did a pint of 'fancy ATF'. Nor did several Italian tune-ups. I had the problem narrowed to hot oil and engine idling - under these conditions the oil pressure dropped below 2 bar and the noise was there. Put a few revs on and the oil pressure went up and the noise went away. So I concluded that it was an oil viscosity problem.

Previous oil change (previous owner) used 0W30 oil. I looked around several suppliers and a lot of recommended oils are around this grade (so it would seem that oil companies are recommending oils of the wrong grade). There is a thread on here somewhere where a lot of the US guys swear by 20W50 but that's a bit thick for British winters so I went for a Mobil 1 10W60. Just for good measure I did an engine flush before the oil change and still the lifter lifter noise was there just before we killed the engine and dropped the oil, so I had high hopes for the oil change...

Now running on 10W60, showing just over 2 bar oil pressure on a hot engine at idle (after a good spanking) and the noise is gone.

I am chuffed.

 

As part of ongoing winter preventive maintenance re-installed the LH V2.3 + MAF, as both overhauled by John Speake (thanks John for your fast + professional + very pleasant service!), vrrrooooommm!

 

PKlutch install

 

Nothing.

Cant find half of a PK32V'r kit.

Roger my Roger..order up!

 

Took my car out of storage to get a ministry of transport safety check done, and replaced a cracked headlight lens....thankfully I found a used one for $125

 

Went to the dyno again, did some optimisation of EZ-F mapping for my 16v Euro. Compared with stock 6% more peak power at 5500rpm; gains of 8-9% lower down.

 

Those are some nice improvements. Do you have chart to post?

 

Picked it up from the mechanic. Had to get some transmission seals replaced as it was leaking a bit. Drove it over to the place that will we wrapping it for me. Can't wait to see how it looks in a day or two. I'll post pics when I get it back.

 

Installed a set of brand new Bilsteins from Roger, wow what a difference!

 

If I may ask, what did those run you? Did you get just the shocks or new coil overs to?

 

Are you getting the entire car wrapped?

 

Here you go !