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I got it all back together this afternoon, then mucked around for half an hour getting the fuel pumps to prime.
Once there was fuel circulating, I hit the starter and it fired up first go.
Pretty happy about that

And finally the new head is ready to go on: At the rate I work, there's a good chance the car might be up and running by mid 2014

Mats: Not my bull, and not a wild one either. It broke down a fence to come and hang out with my horse. No significant panel damage, the bull had a traction problem (it was slipping in it's own poo) and so it was more like it "fell" into the car. It left a decent snot trail. and a bit of a...

Your Q4 ECU does individual cylinder compensation to a degree, as do many modern OEM ECUs.

Here's a very dodgy video of one of the first test drives after the EFI conversion. Trying to steer, change gears and hold a phone steady all at once is not an easy task :( I'd been fiddling with the rev limiter settings a few days beforehand and had set it to 3k, and forgot to reset it before this ...

fedezyl wrote:this has to be one of the crazyest stories i`ve read in a while!

That's why I took a photo - I didn't think even my wife would believe me without proof it happened

The engine has been in pieces for the last 6 months after a recently-installed exhaust cam failed - and destroyed the head in the process. Getting hold of and preparing a new head, valves, cams, gaskets etc on my budget (plus moving house in the middle) has taken ages, and there has been plenty of b...

Another modification I did a while ago was to the Watts linkage. I started out planning to replace the bushes with spherical bearings, but ended up casting a solid aluminium pivot block. I've received mixed feedback on this - more negative than positive, actually :( Not everyone seems to share my co...

I made up a tool just for this job - it's an allen key with the bend cut off, welded to a roughly 2 foot length of 6mm bar, with a nut on the other end. It just slips down between the dash and side of the steering column, and using a socket on the nut, both cap screws can be removed in a minute or t...

Wow... :) I was thinking more on the lines of just measuring hur far down from the splitline between the sump and block the Min mark is and be happy with that. Well... umm... yes, I supose that method would work well too :oops: I was trying to think of a way to do it without having to remove the su...

If you measure the angle of the original dipstick tube, the vertical distance from tube top to bottom of the block and the lengths of the dipstick for both the high and low marks, trigonometry should tell you the vertical distance extended below the bottom of the block for both. Then measure the ang...

If I'm trying to solve a problem that has an easy and a hard solution, for some reason I'll usually ignore both options and dream up a long and complex answer instead :oops: After getting the EFI conversion up and running, I wanted a datalogger that didn't involve carrying a laptop around. I conside...

Think how I feel, delivering news like that on a friday afternoon over here :oops: Even with a broken ECU I'd have a fair chance of figuring out a way to make it do what you wanted for that matter. I've had a few looks at the eprom dump you sent me a while ago - but without a schematic of the ECU or...

If by the time I get the ecu's back no other info appears re the cutoff, I may just give up and use my own cct to do it, as I've said before -in essence a two-input comparator with a relay placed in series with the injector 12v line (pin 87 of the Motronic relay). I hate to say it, but I don't thin...

Hi all, Long time listener, first time caller - I've been lurking around the forum for months, but haven't pulled my finger out and posted here yet :oops: I've had a pair of Alfetta GTVs since for ever, a red '79 2L and a (now) red '77 2L. I'm sure you'll all ridicule me and question my manhood base...