Whislt waiting for things to happen id been bitten by the modding bug and had bought afew things to spruce up the engine bay, again Id sent them away to be painted in dark grey. Also i collected the matrix cover from the power coaters.











I decided to strip all the loom of its on tape, clean all the glue off the wiring and recover in fabric loom tape. The loom had been retaped in so many different places it just looked scruffy. Im glad i did because the injector feed wiring for number 4 piston had snapped and was just touching. very luck here i think!

Once i got the head back the rebuild started.









The car came with a RS500 (XS Power) intercooler and radiator which i rubbed down and painted in galvanised paint again. I decided to buy a fan wiring loom conversion kit due to reading on hear about the poor standard system and also upgraded the fans themselves to hi flow units which are lighter and thinner than the standard unit.



Before painting id refitting the intercooler and cut the exit pipe off and re angled the pipe to reposition inline with the swedish manifold then had the pipe rewelded to the intercooler, at that point i also had the dump valve fitting weld to the intercooler for neatness.