jtbo wrote:Mig welder is pretty much a must with old cars, at least in here, also one needs some way to get under the car as underside needs usually welding.

Ramps and axle stands... there's nothing more fun than getting spatter inside your boiler suit

When I get a house, I'm fitting a lift

Chris_C wrote:Also put a new 90degree filter on the Evo fuel pump and dropped it 40mm (25% of the tank) so hopefully I shouldn't get fuel starvation when I get down to a quarter tank anymore, the pickup is now on the bottom.

This has solved the problem completely. Drove 35miles after the yellow light came on today and no starvation evident round right hand bends like before (well, like was happening at 1/4tank before, I havn't let it get down as far as the light for months!!!)

Hugely chuffed about that, I was expecting a more complex fix required.

I remember telling you the standard EVO filter looked dubious!! Mine is fine. Glad yours is now sorted!!!
Adam

Any chance of a picture? I think I've got a handle on what you mean, but I'd like to confirm it...and it might be useful for others.

cheers

James

340GLT wrote:I remember telling you the standard EVO filter looked dubious!! Mine is fine. Glad yours is now sorted!!!
Adam

Aye, that you did and told me to get a 90 degree one. With standard high speed working practise, it's only just made it to the top of the list

I just got an Evo one off the bay as it's a common upgrade for them and I knew it'd have enough flow. Looks like

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/WALBRO-Fuel-Pump- ... 362wt_1101

The white sock that came on it though has it's outlet at a 45 degree angle to the sock/filter thing, which ment that when the filter touched the bottom of the tank the pump inlet was a good 60mm from the bottom. On a 340, the tank is only 220mm deep so thats quite a lot you loose (added to the fact that most 340's leak on the expansion tank lines) which means you only get about 5" of useable fuel tank.

I've changed that sock to

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Walbro-In-Tank-Fu ... 4075wt_875

this sock, and the pump inlet now sits on the bottom of the tank. Whilst I was there, I redid all the expansion tank hoses (you need 3ft of 12mm, and 4ft of 6mm for a standard 300) so I don't have to worry at all anymore

Took the car round a mates house today to get some firewood. Found that I had a puncture on the rear drivers wheel so changed that. Then managed to catch the exhaust on the way out of the drive (in the teeniest tiniest amount possible) and the mid front section fell out.

Yup, fell out.

I knew something wasn't right and hadn't been for a while as my rear 90deg bend was hanging low. Turns out the bolts had come out of the bellhousing That not being held up had rattled it loose in the front 2 joints so the baby tap just pulled it away from the car.

Ah well, it's all back together.

Thing is the reason I went out to get the firewood was it was raining and too wet to work on the car Ahhh well, rolling round in the mud and puddles is good for the sole, or something!

That's alright chris, I've spent 3 days rolling around on oily tarmac. What exactly is your exhaust? Can't remember if your mid section was standard 1.7 or not

Rather than putting the exhaust back on... have you thought about an exhaust that is more appropriate with the increase of another 50-60bhp?

When this one runs out of servicable life...

It's in the pipeline! Just needs some thinking about to do a proper job

Most of the magic is in the manifold / header, to be fair. Can't go far wrong with 2.25" / 2.5" for the rest on something like that. I'm still debating which of those to go for myself. I'm erring on the side of 2.5", as fittings like V-bands are easier to get. I might lose a nadgers at the bottom end, but I'm losing far more by having badly tuned carbs, so...

cheers

James

i might just get back to looking at getting my exhaust system copyed.

3"-2.5 down pipe - 2.5" all the way to the silly big backbox

Happy Birthday Fake

21 today according to date of first registration

Chris_C wrote:Happy Birthday Fake

21 today according to date of first registration

Woohoo!

old enough for booze in texas and poosex in england.

Many happy returns.

This week has seen 220,000 miles . Spent today on polybushing and investigating what bits I need to buy for suspension, my strut tops and top cups/bearings were in better nick than I expected but still need replacing. Also found a lack of bump stop so need some of those Have some pics on camera.

Installing wishbone bushes (the only slightly tricky one of Dai's set) can be done without a press, I just used a bit of treaded bar, couple of penny washers and some nuts to keep putting on a small amount of pressure. Then wiggle it all about, and put on a bit more pressure. Continue thuswards for a while and when the bush gets near the other side fit a handily placed huge whitworth socket into the mix to pull the donut bit of the bush into!

I still havn't uploaded bush photos.. I'm sure you are all poised on the edge of your seats in anticipation...

Anyway, after doing the last hour of the Funky Elephant 20/20 rally last Sat with constant WOT, I have managed to find the problem is in 2 places. Firstly was the standard idle control valve that's been playing up for a month or so, the rest was the outer of the throttle cable starting to get sticky with the underbonnet heat.

So, today whilst driving a mate about we went to ECP and GSF to buy a new ICV. ECP and GSF had other ideas though and tried to persuade me to part with £120 which wasn't really on, so we went home to look on the internets to see what else used that valve, it has a standard Bosch sticker and part number. I took the important role of hunting the internets whilst said mate poked the ICV as I had previously looked into it and run some carb cleaner through it. Lots of useful info found, firstly that part number came up as a standard part on a DeLorean which the Volvo geek in me knows is the PRV V6 in Volvo 260 and 760s. Lo and behold, within a minute I had a Volvo part number and found that this ICV is actually a standard redblock ICV used on pretty much all redblocks apart from 300s. Further hunting found it's also on Porsche 911 and 944 turbos, lots of renaults (PRV 6pots and renault 4pots) and pug 505s (again, PRV V6).

All sources showed around 100 quid still though Until a lucky ebay hit found some new ones for £35

However, whilst I was doing all this really important information hunting, mate had attacked the only ICV I have with a big screwdriver, removed all the crimped over "do not touch" bits and found that it had lots of rust on the main spindle shaft. This was removed with some fine wet and dry and spindle reassembled. Case put back together, ECU reset and I now have a rock solid (nearly it's still learning) 950rpm idle on this map for the first time

Funky was the first time I've driven Fake with the new engine and actually had to work it. Wow. Catching up with a Delta Integrale HF on gravel was quite an experience Yet again I'm impressed with this engine, and got several comments from the marshalls about how good it sounded