The car was largely complete today with the exception of a few minor items but we were impatient to see if we could get it to run properly. To cut a long story short I enlisted the help of Tony from Falcon Auto Centre. I had reams of printed paper from the ecu manufacturer, from the syncronometer manufacturer and from various blogs on the net ! Tony laughed and asked for a piece of rubber tube ! the linkage set up was a country mile out which is why I couldn't get the syncronometer to make any sense. He disconnected the throttle body interconnect, set up the butterfly gap at idle and then got the engine to idle with his rubber tube and finally used the syncronometer to get the bodies spot on. The engine now idles happily with no vibration and seems to run very smooth, why do people like Tony make it look so easy !! of course I would have found the answer (in about a month LOL)
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| Joe and Tony listening to the purr ! |
We then had a sneaky test run on the close, all seems to work as it should. The snag list is down to about a dozen items which are probably another couple of hours work. Last job tonight was to fit the rear diffuser with sikaflex and a couple of black rivets, held in place with the trolley jack until morning. Forms for IVA done so as soon as we get a new relay from the states we will be done. 7 hours today 260 hours total.
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Paul/Joe,
ReplyDeleteThe car's looking good and a 1st cheeky drive - still smiling I assume?
I've now covered 65 miles and have another snag list developing but definitely worth it. Limiting myself to ~4k rpm as I get the feel of the car - can't wait until it's run in - whatever that is!