I found the schematic for the 20x circuit Chevrolet spec hot rod loom tonight, along with the data for the water methanol injection, electric water pump and thermo fan computer, as well as the Crane Cams Hi6 capacitive discharge ignition, plus a large number of Brisk Premium LGS spark plugs, along with another new in the box Edelbrock water methanol injection unit and a heap of copper core spark plug leads.
There are a number of new BOSCH HEI distributor caps and rotor buttons, Hall Effect Sensors, and plethora other things to mess around with.
The box of engine oil filters is a welcome find too.
I really have to make the time to sift through all the boxes to find other items I need, but so far so good, plenty of bits and pieces to stroke around with.
The very first item to catch my eye was an aircraft throttle cable.
A true tinkerer may be able to appreciate what that item can do on a long trip, laden or empty, when that item is attached to a custom made bracket at the base of the distributor, allowing the advance to be altered incrementally on the fly by merely turning the dial a notch at a time forward or backward, and monitoring the vacuum, temp, fuel flow etc etc, enabling the operator to trim the tune according to conditions.
Post trip, all you do is hit the button to reset the dizzy back to its standard setting.
There’s a tap attached to the vacuum advance line too, which you can use to limit the application of the vacuum advance, much like a locked dizzy as used in old school speedway cars way back when.
I sourced that cable from a scrapped aircraft in USA.
The trick is to find one the correct length and that can be a bit of a headache as series Land Rovers are so short, that a typical aircraft throttle cable is just far too long and wieldy to be practical. You want it to go straight from the dash to the dizzy with only just enough surplus cable to allow for the flex of the engine upon the engine mounts.
That way, a single click, relative to the length of the arm you’ve carefully hose clamped to the dizzy shaft and attached the cable end to, once nutted out, can be adjusted to provide .1, .2, .3, .4 etc of a degree of advance at will.
Push the button in to reset the dizzy back to baseline.
I did have an aviation spec Flowscan fuel flow meter but that appears to be missing.
That was last used in 2010 at the NSW RTA EPA Nox emission tests. No clue where that went but it’s possible it was knocked off when my laser thermometer and spectrum analyser disappeared.
I know a few people are eager for me to get back into the area of plasma physics and thermodynamics and while all that equipment arrived with the 109, I’m unsure if I’ll be dipping a toe back in that pond just yet.
For now it’s purely mechanical, getting it running like it was before, after that, who knows.
I have no desire to spend money on it as I have other things that are of a higher priority for me these days.
Land Rover owners are generally the most miserably tight people ever born, such that they loathe to spend any more than pocket change but want a Rolls Royce in exchange, so I’m aiming at gravitating toward a similar behaviour pattern as those strange creatures.
(tongue in cheek)