Engine short block will be ready tomorrow. I pulled the engine harness completely out yesterday as a part of getting ready to repaint engine bay. The first time with it, I did all the work on it (engine harness) with the new engine installed and harness in the car. Not this time. I'll do the work with it removed and mock-up any breakout lengths with the engine on the stand - much easier, especially on the back.
Some of the work to be done on the engine harness will be new injector connectors as the originals are kinda ratty looking. I picked up some 250cc flow capacity OBD1 saturated injectors so the "peak and hold" OBD0 resistor box is also going bye bye. In addition to the flow increase from 225cc to 250cc, the new injectors are saturated type and are fully compatible with the P29 chipped OBS1 P06 ECU in it.
I made the decision on the injector change yesterday, I had been considering it, then thought about cleaning up the originals. Hooked up a 12V power supply and triggered them manually and blasted with carb cleaner and figured screw it, time to replace. A factor in the decision is because this time the engine will have a thinner head gasket which will bump the compression ratio up another 1/2 a point, from 10:1 to 10.5:1. I'll probably put an adjustable fuel pressure regulator on it and also need to install the high flow fuel pump I have for it.
Guys at the shop attributed the uneven and accelerated clutch sics wear to oil leaking and causing slippage and softening up the friction material.
Some of the work to be done on the engine harness will be new injector connectors as the originals are kinda ratty looking. I picked up some 250cc flow capacity OBD1 saturated injectors so the "peak and hold" OBD0 resistor box is also going bye bye. In addition to the flow increase from 225cc to 250cc, the new injectors are saturated type and are fully compatible with the P29 chipped OBS1 P06 ECU in it.
I made the decision on the injector change yesterday, I had been considering it, then thought about cleaning up the originals. Hooked up a 12V power supply and triggered them manually and blasted with carb cleaner and figured screw it, time to replace. A factor in the decision is because this time the engine will have a thinner head gasket which will bump the compression ratio up another 1/2 a point, from 10:1 to 10.5:1. I'll probably put an adjustable fuel pressure regulator on it and also need to install the high flow fuel pump I have for it.
Guys at the shop attributed the uneven and accelerated clutch sics wear to oil leaking and causing slippage and softening up the friction material.
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