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Smooth runnings

Now that I'm passed the "I want to take a sledgehammer to it" stage of this project and have driven the car up and down the driveway loosening up the callipers - it looks like I could do an MOT once I've solved the induction & air filter position and then refitted the bonnet.

I bought another set of green top injectors off eBay - but only one of them worked properly but thankfully I only needed one to get the engine running smoothly again. I'll send the spare set of for cleaning at some point in the coming months ready for springtime installation.

I knew for sure that the #4 cylinder was firing because the exhaust wrap started to steam and bake on! The other three headers had baked on ages ago - I didn't notice at the time that fourth one wasn't heating up and steaming.

I've started to fit the intake pieces now so I can find the best and most convenient place for the intake filter - remember I have installed an 3.0 S2 intake on an 2.5 S motor. Why? From much reading it always seems as if the intake is overly restrictive on these cars and air flow is not optimal. So when you're trying to eek out as much of the power as you can you've got to get more air in to get more power out.

To me it looks like some of the intake components do have inherent airflow restrictions built into them - so I'm opening the air flow as much as I am able to get as much air into the cylinders as possible by porting the hose adapter to the shape of the AFM - which is rectangular on the "in" side and "circular" on the out - weird:



I have three options it seems when it comes to the position of the filter: under the badge panel (but entry is very restricted); behind the NS headlight; and inside the wheel well behind the wheel arch cover. This is how things look if I go for the latter - it's quite neat but may not give me enough space inside the arch to fit a big enough air filter although cold air would be at it's maximum:



It looks like a tidy solution but the plastic hose is a fair bit narrower than the inlet to the AFM which is gong to restrict the airflow again - so this is probably not going to suit my quest for optimising the intake setup.
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