However, more excitingly than that, a very busy weekend was had in the garage installing the engine in the car, and setting up the new underwing oil cooler. This all went relatively smoothly, to the point where the car was ready for first start on Monday. Since my garage is surrounded by neighbours at close quarters, I decided to get Nick to trailer the car up to Redtek for the start and initial run up. Once everything was double checked, we cranked it over, and it fired pretty quickly
A great moment after all the hard work.
Once things had started to warm up, a little reality check appeared in the form of an oil slick at the front of the car... it turned out that during my full-on weekend bolting things together I had forgotten to torque up one of the oil cooler unions under the front wing. This was tightened and then we moved on.
After some initial fettling, it was off down the road to roadtest for basic MFI setup. Nick managed to get the main rack set pretty quickly to give correct performance at mid and high end, but it proved impossible to lean out the idle rack sufficiently. However, in general the engine feels very strong even at part throttle to 4500rpm
The next stage will be a trip to the rolling road to get some proper readings for setting the MFI pump accurately - after running it in for 1500 miles during the scotland trip of course
