...aw thats not fair Martin, nowhere have I ever seen an MOT sheet with a fail/pass section for furry dice ;oD lol Cheers for sorting her out, seeya Saturday :o) Claire & 4 wheeled friends DOC170 --- In doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Martin Gutkowski - DMC Ltd <martin@...> wrote: > > It was indeed a vacuum leak, but a very strange one considering it'd get > through -more- fuel than it should, mainly because it was adjusted so > high at idle to get around the leaks. All the injector seals were rock > hard and the injectors weren't held in by much more than gravity. The > intake manifold had had too-long a bolt installed at the back edge and > had actually peeled back one of the core plugs causing a slight leak > there. We've got more intake manifolds than you can shake a stick at so > we just fitted a spare one, which neatly solved the problem of the > stripped threads at the air-horn end too. New soopa doopa injector seals > (see website :-) and a new metering head and intake venturi as part of > the Stage 1 anyway, and now the clutch does indeed slip quite > enthusiastically. Not the first one to have had performance mods which > then highlighted a dodgy clutch! > > MOT only failed on handbrake, although he did frown at the fluffy dice.... > > Martin > DMC Ltd > > Claire Usher wrote: > > >Martin can explain it better then me > > > DOC UK Website: www.deloreans.co.uk Unsubscribe: doc-uk-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ** Unless otherwise stated, all messages posted to the group are assumed public and may be printed in the club magazine ** Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/doc-uk/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: doc-uk-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/