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Hi dave, the center part including the spring did fall out of the cap pushed it back in so looks ok.

Hi guys, After sorting out the blocked injectors and and put it all back together, the dam engine won't fire! I've got a spark from the king lead so I believe it's either the cap which is new (as is the lucas rotor arm,) or the distributor which is the 35DM8 version. Now I must admit I did take of t...

hi guys thanks for replying, and sorry it's taken me so long to come back, i've got another problem with the dam engine now! Anyway the radiator i'm using is from a skyline R32 all aluminium. The rad cap was rated at 1.1 bar and has two seals and an overflow. I've just changed the cap for a 1.3 bar ...

Hi guys, a simple question this time.
Do I need to install a header tank or can I run my 3.5 without one?

Well it’s all put back together and started up. It looks like no.7 had never really run as smoke came off of the exhaust pipe (I had painted the exhaust manifolds with high temperature paint.) Did a temperature test and found no.2 not running! Stripped it all down yet again and found a foreign body....

Hi sidecar, I had painted right up to the barbed end, then the short hose of the injectors slides right over the whole part.

Well guys I believe I've found the problem, caused by, yes you've guessed it me! I decided to strip down the fuel rail and in my lack of wisdom I had painted the fuel rail and found the petrol was slowly melting the paint off and clogging the injectors. No.7 was the worse but there was crud in all o...

Thanks stevieturbo I’ll add that to my list of things to try.

Hi guys, the plug is smelling of petrol, and I’ve gone over all my Instalation notes/photos and the arrows on the timing gears are in line. Wouldn’t think the chain has jumped as everything is new. Tested my 2.0ltr 4 pot (cast iron exhaust) temp and that’s only 250 degrees across each port. So I’m t...

I've done a compression test and they are all within 1 - 2% across all cylinders. earthed the spark plug and there is a spark. The engine is running rich (plugs are black except for No.7) as I have had problems setting the timing as its way off the tdc marks.

Hi Sidecar,
Yeah it's an efi, I have a horrible feeling it's a valve train issue as the vacuum gauge on the dash is reading a steady 10 InHg indicating late valve timing. Looks like I'll be striping the front down this weekend!

DaveEFI wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 20, 2018 8:48 am

Does it make any difference if you run the engine with that plug lead disconnected?

Hi dave, just tried it and it made no difference at all.

Hi guys, I’ve just bought an Infrared Thermometer which I’ve used for measuring the temperature of the exhaust headers. I’m rather concerned on the results, I’ve got stainless steel tubular manifolds and I’ve measured each exhaust 3” from the cylinder heads the results are as follows. No.1 436 degre...

It is possible to enlarge the sump a couple of inches more. I bought it from eBay ready modified for this car, obviously I’ve been duped! Hoping to run the engine until for a year before changing the inlet manifold to the Thor system and upgrading the EFI. That would be the ideal time to change the ...

I've been told the cooler would hold 600 ml. I've also ordered a thermostat to be on the safe side, but i'm still about 1 1/2 ltrs short. I presume the recommended quantity of oil would take the level to the mid part of the dip stick, so if i keep it topped to the max level in theory i should be jus...