The last weeks been a bit quiet. Swapped the ridiculous gear knob for my mates snapped old E34 one. same time I had to adjust the reverse gate as 2nd gear was always a struggle, its sweet now. Rigged up a 12v fan heater to the rear screen as i reckon every line is broken. Fan works better but might need a bit of the parcel shelf shaving off. Its just cable tied in but i've been doing things really quickly in odd 5 mins, to try and make the car more daily-able while i'm daily-ing it.
Did manage a potter round our local scrapyard and found 2 potential engines. The first a K4J, 1400 16v in a megane - perfect! after a little more inspection it turned out it was the Sagem S3000 management. The other engines a K4M 1600 16v which is nearly definitely on Siemens Sirius 32 - The management i'm after. Guy in the yard said around £150 and i can take engine, ecu, wiring, body module, Immobilizer, keys, clocks the lot. Now i'd prefer to put in a 1.4 as the cars a 1.4 standard. But i am pretty sure a 1.6 won't be bad. I still know very little about Either management system, apart from diabling the immobiliser in the ecu programming. I know even less about the renault body control module or UCH as it's called. Its all CAN-BUS between immo, clocks, UCH engine management and everything. Lots to learn
Big problems finding much info or even wiring diagrams.
I dug out the bits I had for EPAS conversion and it's not looking too hard, just need to work out how it all sits in the car. Be a while before that happens though
Had a strange lack of power under load, hardly starting but would rev up ok until load was applied. Traced it to the fuel cut / anti dieseling solonoid. Tested it straight off the battery and got nothing at all. So have just cut the end of the needle off, put the nozzle back on and screwed it back in. Now i don't get overrun fuel cut, which is a shame. Might strip the electrics for it all out and make it easy for someone else to use, it's just the valve that's gone.
So my next move is to check clutches and find a combination that'll work with the 340 tailshaft. Look more into this management and hopefully get some cash together and pull an engine and computers. Got rear dampers, torque rod bushes, rear blocks, track rod ends, bottom balljoints, centre exhaust section and some welding left to do before MOT later this month so will try find some time to do that. Exhaust, blocks and dampers would make the car much nicer to daily so might aim to do them first.
'88 360 +T LSD - sold
'87 760 TDI (D24TIC) - sold
'04 V40 D sport (F9Q, decat, Remapped, launch control)
'89 740 SE (b230ft, 12psi, V-cam, headwork, 'remapped', banded steels)
'86 340 DL 1.4
