Got the modified suspension towers fitted in the week, though I still have to fit the wiring and coolant pipes back around them and I'll leave the steering column out until I have changed the head. Not the easiest of jobs to do with the engine in place as you of course have to have the chassis on stands and then support the engine as you swap the towers over. Having the single multi-way plug on the steering column made it a doddle to remove.
Next job is to check torques, fit the wiring and coolant hose back in before checking the starter and swapping the head, then I could thing about finishing off the new engine mounts.
Then it was time for the head change, the old head was removed quite easily before cleaning off the block and a new Payen head gasket fitted before re-fitting the starter and water pump.
So I got the GT6 running again on Saturday with the new head on. Took me a while to get it started as the injectors needed priming and then I must have flooded it in a bad way, so I took the plugs out to clean them up and re-gap (should have done this when I went over to Megajolt ) and left them out while I went for lunch. On returning I wanged the plugs back in and it started up straight away.
With the new head it seems to rev much more freely, being all to easy to spin up to 6,500rpm, where before it was a bit of a struggle to get up to 6,300rpm. There is still a bit of a dip in the torque around 2,800rpm, but it soon picks up again, perhaps this could be ironed out on the rolling road.
Covered an easy 200miles in the afternoon on a drive over to Builth and found some good roads to drive once you get past the people pottering along at 45mph I'm not sure whether it's the car, me or both, but I feel a lot more confident driving the car now than when I did when it first went back on the road, just learning how to drive it?
One thing I did see from the run yesterday was that, despite the reasonably warm weather yesterday, the engine temperature was pretty well pegged at just over half way and the fan never came on, even in the slower moving traffic. Not too bad for a second hand pug radiator, but I may well change it for a new one as some of the cooling fins are looking a bit flaky.
It did reward me this morning by leaving a pool of brake fluid on the floor, a leak from the master cylinder. Fortunately I had a spare master cylinder, but the lid will not unscrew, so I exchanged the piston with seals and re-bled the system and it has been fine since. Makes me wonder if I ought to get in a spare set of cylinder seals just in case.
The next job to do is to finish off the new engine mounts, really don't like the look of the existing ones and how they are cracking.
Next job is to check torques, fit the wiring and coolant hose back in before checking the starter and swapping the head, then I could thing about finishing off the new engine mounts.
Then it was time for the head change, the old head was removed quite easily before cleaning off the block and a new Payen head gasket fitted before re-fitting the starter and water pump.
So I got the GT6 running again on Saturday with the new head on. Took me a while to get it started as the injectors needed priming and then I must have flooded it in a bad way, so I took the plugs out to clean them up and re-gap (should have done this when I went over to Megajolt ) and left them out while I went for lunch. On returning I wanged the plugs back in and it started up straight away.
With the new head it seems to rev much more freely, being all to easy to spin up to 6,500rpm, where before it was a bit of a struggle to get up to 6,300rpm. There is still a bit of a dip in the torque around 2,800rpm, but it soon picks up again, perhaps this could be ironed out on the rolling road.
Covered an easy 200miles in the afternoon on a drive over to Builth and found some good roads to drive once you get past the people pottering along at 45mph I'm not sure whether it's the car, me or both, but I feel a lot more confident driving the car now than when I did when it first went back on the road, just learning how to drive it?
One thing I did see from the run yesterday was that, despite the reasonably warm weather yesterday, the engine temperature was pretty well pegged at just over half way and the fan never came on, even in the slower moving traffic. Not too bad for a second hand pug radiator, but I may well change it for a new one as some of the cooling fins are looking a bit flaky.
It did reward me this morning by leaving a pool of brake fluid on the floor, a leak from the master cylinder. Fortunately I had a spare master cylinder, but the lid will not unscrew, so I exchanged the piston with seals and re-bled the system and it has been fine since. Makes me wonder if I ought to get in a spare set of cylinder seals just in case.
The next job to do is to finish off the new engine mounts, really don't like the look of the existing ones and how they are cracking.
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