I suppose that you get a few goes though unless its a really big hill!#
Just back from holiday and getting up and running again. Trying not to get too distracted from the bodywork but decided to get the engine out of storage.
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Its a 930/10 that I picked up a few years ago with no history. It took a while to find so decided I'd really like some confidence there was nothing terminal wrong with it so I can start looking for another one if I need to.
Took the sump plate off first, no bits of metal dropped out just some surprisingly clean oil. From what I could see thinks inside looked really clean.
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Valve covers off next and all looked well, haven't checked properly but looks like no broken head studs and cams look happy.
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I'm really tempted to try and get the engine running out of the car but I know nothing about CIS so worried I'd would end up spending a lot of time on it, although the CIS system may be more sellable if I can show it running.
I know that they should be done on a warm engine but I'm wondering if its worth doing a leak down test as a final confidence test that there's critically really wrong with the engine. The testers seen to be available for around £60. Thoughts welcome.
I've always assumed the engine would need a full rebuild and recently got a price of just less than £10K for a standard build but I'm quite tempted to run it for a while first when the cars on the road. There's always the change it might be OK or even just put off the spend for a while.
Still haven't decided what to do about the induction system although I don't want to go the MFI route.....(yet) I was initially planning to get a 40mm PMO carb kit but that was when the exchange rate was much more favourable and I was travelling to the US on a regular basis. I saw that Jenvey are releasing a plug and play kit soon with their Heritage throttle bodies, ECU and a base map. The aim is for a reliable, drivable, maintainable car so this is quite appealing. The plan is to use the car on longer trips do reasonable MPG would be nice. I'm guessing that the kits will be around £10K but lets see.
If anyone has a parts list including recommended ECU, required inputs/sensors to work with Jenvey throttle bodies id be really grateful thanks?
Hoping to get the rear ARB mounts dome tomorrow, might get the CIS system on sale too before I start to tinker with it.