Richard Lloyd Racing MK1 - Updating Broken Pics From Page 1 And Adding New Works

[travisreeve]

 

[Bellend]

Good result. 

Any ideas what gaskets are leaking?

Nope, need to degrease my once clean engine and start looking, was mint until it was driven.  hopefully an easy one!

Fingers crossed. 

Rocker cover?

[SoundillusioN]

No I wish, lower down at the back somewhere...

Oh and on another note, once the car was up and running again, I took if for a 30 minute round trip to a garden centre, on the way there the throttle cable link to the pedal decided to fall to bits, was just left with the hook.  luckily I had some gorilla tape in the glove box which helped me bodge it!

[Neo Badness]

Oh and on another note, once the car was up and running again, I took if for a 30 minute round trip to a garden centre, on the way there the throttle cable link to the pedal decided to fall to bits, was just left with the hook.  luckily I had some gorilla tape in the glove box which helped me bodge it!

Check you, Sunday at the garden centre 

Can't really give you any stress I was fitting a bathroom...Good work on the cable fix though, experience has taught me that it's always worth while to keep some tape, cable ties etc in the car. Beats bodging a gear selector together with some found sellotape on a desolate coastal road -5C at 3am and no phone. Who needs 4th and 5th? Or if you do you can't have 1st and 2nd. Pulling away in 3rd, mmmmm clutchy

[tech1889]

If you don't have the stuff give it to a specialist won't be that expensive and atleast you know it's done properly and will purr like a puddy cat..

[Neo Badness]

If you don't have the stuff give it to a specialist won't be that expensive and atleast you know it's done properly and will purr like a puddy cat..

And if it all goes terribly wrong you have someone to shout at

[tech1889]

Exactly  As as previously stated the engine is a bloody good one so deserves care !

[SoundillusioN]

Garden centre... missus loves our garden, sent me packing as she was elsewhere and needed some bits.  was good timeing actually because the old girl (28 this year!) was drivable again.

So far I am proud that pretty much everything you have seen so far except the welding was done by me on my drive, shed or garden!  I really wanted to do the clearances myself and then take it to a pro just to get it properly setup.  I'll have to look into how much it would cost me to get someone else to do it as you points are good..

In other news, strobed it, CO2 tested it so the fuel and ignition are pretty much bang on.  It's got some high end pull back now which is great but I  am a little confused on one thing:

The car will tick over and purr nicely, warms up to optimum temp and fan will kick in when it creeps over.  If revved, it settles back to idle fine, however, after giving it a blast down the road for 15 mins the idle go's no lower than 2500!    once cooled down it's fine again.

My first though was over fuelling... anybody else got any suggestions?

[tech1889]

Idle control valve / ISV ??

[SoundillusioN]

Idle control valve / ISV ??

Yeah will have to look into that.  I found some good info HERE on the whole system that includes this.  Damn, I hope it's not broken!