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I'd take Budgie up on his offer tbh. Thats a very fair price. For piece of mind i'd also give him another £150 and ask for a new cambelt kit to go on it.
Chip, thanks for the help. I have a feeling the plug is a bit a red herring as after we put it all back together the car didn't misfire and has done over 300 miles now. Up until that point it'd done 20 miles max. I think that was a case of the loose lead causing it and I will admit the plug...
Knowsit.
Yeah the destructive misfire was resolved when we took all the plugs out and seated the leads properly again. The fault code cleared down and didn't reappear.
I probably need to get hold of a few spare sensors. Not sure i've got an ICV or a TPS sensor. TB was cleaned before fitting so...
No smoke, it's not burning oil at all. Obviously after we swapped the lambdas round it smelt for a while because it'd dumped loads of petrol in the cat. Doesn't smell bad anymore.
Just hunts a bit on idle and was running a bit cold (an maybe a bit rich still hence the slightly high fuel usage?)
The car got its first run out for a year yesterday and the first time since the rebuild. 20 mile drive to the garage where the cage was installed and it ran fine. I obvious didn't thrash it but all felt good. Bit of a chin wag and 2 hrs later we drove the 5 miles to the mot place. Noticed on the...
It's a road based policy starting at 1000 miles a year and then I can add what I want to it. I don't plan on doing many miles at all in it so it's fine for now. I can upgrade it to full competition use if I fancy.
More than welcome mate, it should be up here towards the end of March. I've finally got it insured today through Competition Car Insurance, so once it's taxed and mot'd it's ready to go.