Engine Replaced
March 15, 2011
Hi All,
Been a long time since my last update, in March last year we had to bin the old enigine and replace with a 2nd hand one.
I stripped the engine back repainted it cleaning up and checking all ancillaries and after a full service and igition set up replacement I fitted a twin choke weber carb and pancake filter from a corsair which has been modified to manual choke.
This should help give a little extra grunt, I used this on the first outing to the NASS Festival last year but it felt massively underpowered and struggled will hills which on the way back I found was because both head gaskets had blown when it overheated on the way there.
So I did a top end rebuild jet washing and flushing all of the rad and block waterways and she now runs ok and is ready for a tune up when I replace the timing cover gasket.
For the extra long journeys I have now fitted a larger mk2 tank using angle iron and replaced the fuel pump while installing an overflow return from the new carb.
To stop the overheating I also installed an aftermarket temp sender and gauge for monitoring as well as drilling and extra hole in the thermostat which has eliminated all overheating for now.
At some point in the future I will also fit a kenlowe electric fan on a switch for when in traffic and a new exhaust as the original I have been told is the wrong one for the mk1 and far to thinner bore pipe which may have caused the overheat in the first place.
Thanks
James
Been a long time since my last update, in March last year we had to bin the old enigine and replace with a 2nd hand one.
I stripped the engine back repainted it cleaning up and checking all ancillaries and after a full service and igition set up replacement I fitted a twin choke weber carb and pancake filter from a corsair which has been modified to manual choke.
This should help give a little extra grunt, I used this on the first outing to the NASS Festival last year but it felt massively underpowered and struggled will hills which on the way back I found was because both head gaskets had blown when it overheated on the way there.
So I did a top end rebuild jet washing and flushing all of the rad and block waterways and she now runs ok and is ready for a tune up when I replace the timing cover gasket.
For the extra long journeys I have now fitted a larger mk2 tank using angle iron and replaced the fuel pump while installing an overflow return from the new carb.
To stop the overheating I also installed an aftermarket temp sender and gauge for monitoring as well as drilling and extra hole in the thermostat which has eliminated all overheating for now.
At some point in the future I will also fit a kenlowe electric fan on a switch for when in traffic and a new exhaust as the original I have been told is the wrong one for the mk1 and far to thinner bore pipe which may have caused the overheat in the first place.
Thanks
James
Posted by James Durrant.
