Pilkie
Active Member
It was acting like a kangaroo on fri morn,and I had to get a lift into work!
While fitting the new fuel pump this morn,as I eventually diagnosed fuel starvation, I found the feed pipe partially blocked with a dry almost solid lump of crud!
I suspect this may have been floating about in the reserve pipe,as I had to use it last week,or it was it the res/main tap area,and must of got sucked thorough.
The performance feels better,and when floored gets up to 60 in 2nd,changes up then still feels like its accelerating but needs plenty of room to make it above 70,so am going for a 15mile blast up the motorway to see what it will do.
Also re-did the compression test,as I suspected my testers valve was knackered,using mine it shows 95 dry,110psi wet, then using my neighbours one it gave as near as damn it 175psi across all 4 with a little oil in the bore from the previous dry/wet test.
All other bits,cond,cap,leads,rotor etc have been swapped 1 by 1 and make no difference.
So even though some would say its current performance is what to expect,the little extra oomph it lacks at higher speeds has got to be down to the valve gaps all being a bit on the tight side.
Got to get the V8 up and running again as it doesnt like being left for more than 2 days,"something in the carb sticks??",then I can take the 2000's cam off to reshim.
While fitting the new fuel pump this morn,as I eventually diagnosed fuel starvation, I found the feed pipe partially blocked with a dry almost solid lump of crud!
I suspect this may have been floating about in the reserve pipe,as I had to use it last week,or it was it the res/main tap area,and must of got sucked thorough.
The performance feels better,and when floored gets up to 60 in 2nd,changes up then still feels like its accelerating but needs plenty of room to make it above 70,so am going for a 15mile blast up the motorway to see what it will do.
Also re-did the compression test,as I suspected my testers valve was knackered,using mine it shows 95 dry,110psi wet, then using my neighbours one it gave as near as damn it 175psi across all 4 with a little oil in the bore from the previous dry/wet test.
All other bits,cond,cap,leads,rotor etc have been swapped 1 by 1 and make no difference.
So even though some would say its current performance is what to expect,the little extra oomph it lacks at higher speeds has got to be down to the valve gaps all being a bit on the tight side.
Got to get the V8 up and running again as it doesnt like being left for more than 2 days,"something in the carb sticks??",then I can take the 2000's cam off to reshim.
