Dave King from Kaelec came round this morning to try and sort out the main electrical fault on the lights/wiper circuit. After two hours or tracing the electrical circuit in the dash loom, the fault was rectified. The only remaining electrical issue is the Tacho which can wait until after SVA. Over last week I also started to fill in the edges of the doors ready for spraying, I resprayed the light cowls and also the dash top, all black gloss. So hopefully it is full steam ahead from now.
Competed a few more small jobs this week, made an ally top for the foot well, resprayed the "elise" light covers, sprayed the dash top and organised an auto electrician to come out an look at my final electrical problem. Hopefully by next Monday we will be on the downhill stretch. Last Thursday met up with a number of Sylva owners at the Liphook meeting, saw three sylus, and three fury and met a guy who works at the same place as me who owns a nice 1700 Xflow fury. A good evening was had by all.
Brain wave - more like lobotomy, the earth wire did not do the trick so I will have to get a sparkey in to look at it, Stuart Parley knows a man that can. I've always not been happy with the running of the engine and so I decided to do something radical about it. I went down to the scrappers and bought a Zetec inlet system complete for a 1.6 Escort (ally inlet with separate injector bar). I then cleaned this up and put in on the engine without gaskets etc. and guess what, it did not run any better therefore my belief that there are loads of inlet leaks was proved right. I then took off the low level system, stripped it down, cleaned it up, filed clean the mating surface between the inlet and the head and put it back together with Ford gaskets. The engine now runs much smoother. Ran it for about 25 minutes, the thermostat tripped in the second longer circuit and the fan on the rad came on at about 97 degs as expected. Looks good. I think I am going to get the inlet/head face machined at work just to be sure I have a good mate between the two. I also tightened up the pedals and made a cover for the access hole. Next job is to sort out the electrics and it's down hill all the way from here (hopefully).
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