Testarossa Top Of Engine Refurbish

Following our phone conversation... and NOW (!) you understand why I refuse to develop partial kits! This system is just that, a system, and cant/wont be broken up when it is done. You need everything in hand and ALL of the knowledge up front. My wish was to supply you with components for a couple of coolant sensors because they were quite literally "in your way" and it would have been a shame not to do them at this time. After that was done you then could do the remainder of the kit, if you ever choose to, at a time of your choosing but the difficult ones would already have been done "when you were there".

""I'll do the rest on a next project."" Doesn't work, never did, never will. The job at hand was a blown hose, that reasoning doesn't hold water when the entire project is reviewed. One must enter into projects of this kind with a completely open mind and deal with any and all issues at hand when they are identified. IF you had waited and done those connections at the coolant sensors at a later time when everything was back together..... what do you think the chances are you would have seen the "Sparky's, I can fix it better than Ferrari" resistor kit? Janitorial work is nothing short of a B!tch, but if you don't do it completely correct, you are just adding to the problem. It can be difficult enough to identify the true causes of a given problem. Lets just say that when thinking through a problem with a cold start system..... reversing some DS's brain storm of putting a pair of resistors in there... surely would not have been the first thing to cross my mind. Do it once, do it right and do it complete with both eye's fully open.

I have done dozens upon dozens of these installs plus all of the input from all those doing Beta testing over the last 5 years........ I know full well what you are going to run into in the course of the job. I know what components you will require to combat these problems long before you know they ARE problems. For this reason alone I am developing a base kit and then options to that. When it is done all of these issues will be addressed and what is in the kit will be so for very sound reasons. It was because of Robbie's testing your very problems were already addressed, Spasso identified yet another area.... We have been here before and there is method to the madness. Yes I could develop partial kits as you suggested and it would be far more profitable in the end. THAT doesn't solve the problems, the very reason I am doing this, it creates them as you have found out. The statement of "the only way he can make something on it" is only one very small facet of the complete answer that was given and is used out of context.

What were you doing with the O2 sensor wires?

 

Shamile -- Don't just go by the colors on the O2 sensor connectors until you verify the physical situation (you never know if someone wrongly put the O2 sensors in the wrong cat). The single signal wire for the O2 sensor mounted in the 7/12 cat should be connected to the forewardmost injection ECU pin 8, and, likewise, the single signal wire for the O2 sensor mounted in the 1/6 cat should be connected to the rearwardmost injection ECU pin 8:
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Great stuff Shamile! I'm looking on with much interest, so anything you can document with descriptions & pics are greatly appreciated. It's on my radar as the next thing to try when time permits.

 

Shamile, not sure if the gaskets have a correct up side. The washer that are thicker are under the nuts for the intakes to the engine and the wave washers are under the allen head bolts that join the upper and lower intake sections together. Keep up the great work looks good..

 

The conversation was very informative for me. Thank you for the audio sources, I believe they very well may be a source for some of the odd, fill in the blank components I have been looking for. It is the final, minute details and components that have proven so time consuming to identify and locate... these might help with that.

Considering where you were when you started and where you are now... quite an accomplishment to say the least. I'm not sure I would suggest the valve cleaning technique as std. There are potential issues with that if all the carbon isn't removed and ends up on a seat or valve face. That said... what the heck, worth a try.

With all of the corrections you have made to date, you should be well ahead of the curve now. Attention to the smallest details is what makes the difference... you are surely there!

 

Shamile if my car is as original, I think it is, then you can see by this shot that the thick 8mm washers go under the intake to engine and the wave washers go under the allen heads,that is the way I took them off and how they went back on. Also was how a 600mile car I saw had it. So if you want it to be original....
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earlier fchat discussion concluded that wd40 is not good for this application - apparently it has a wax/ paraffin in it. Others have suggest marvel mystery oil....

maybe 2 stroke oil intended to mix with fuel...

rgds,
Vincenzo

 

Thanks Shamile...I like her, um...kung-fu grip.

 

I never even saw her hands.

 

Best to go with the oem, The upper plenum washers are the standard wave washer but the intake runner to cylinder head washer may be diffrent. don`t exactly remember thickness but I do know it is a type of wave/locking cone washer so probably best to get the oem one. can`t see them costing too much.

Regards, Jim

 

Shamile, You have made a thread about a car I do not own and a job I will not do interesting, Thanks for the fun!

 

Nice cleaning it. An exaggerated opinion, you can look yourself in that cover because of very shining of it. LOL

 

What happened? Is this thread over? I want to see finished product Shamile.

 

Trouble with his thread Shamile, is that there are too many photos of parts of cars

Phil