intake whistle

[Niva]

recently purchased a v8 shitbox rover, efi. Has a very loud whistle coming from the pod at idle, kinda changes pitch or goes away at different revs.

been through every vacume line on it, replaced most but its definatly coming from inside the plenum. Been told this could be normal and wouldnt be there if stock air box was on it.

when i took the plenum off there was no gasket in between it and the trumpet, also been told this is normal as its aluminium (true?) made a gasket but whistle is still there.


main problem with the car is it will idle fine or rev in N or P up to about 4k then just die back to idle, popping from the pod. when driving it u cant use anymore than 1/4 loud pedal or it dies in the ass. eventually it wont go anywere, wait awail then do a nother few K's

replaced fuel filter, done timing, new fuel etc..

any ideas?

[Bakerboy]

maybe the air flow meter watched a tv show with em fixing up one and it wldnt run properly chased it down to air flow meter

[Niva]

yeh problem is i cant find another one, and with this ecu it just wont run without it, unlike the good ol russian which just sent a default signal back and would still go.


spoke to a rover mechanic, said hes never changed one in his life.

just found previous owner has put a shim on the bracket for the diaphram for the auto advance/retard but it seems to work fine..


DRIVING ME FUCKING NUTS (KNOWERE)

[DRKWRX]

what rover is it??? My v8 disco needed a new AFM with a lot of other stuff lol but I take mine to Rover tech he seems to know what hes doing!!!.

[kurbn]

the engine builder at my work is a rover fanatic, he's had a few of those rover v8's

il ask him

is it the 5 door liftback?

[Niva]

problem fixed, fuel pump inlet was completely packed with crud, installed a new but with fears of a corroded tank i put a clear filter just before it.

car went fine, for about 6 hours, then started to hit some kind of rev limiter at about 5.5, had a look at the clear filter before the pump.. completely black!!

RUSTY FUEL TANK FOR THE FUCKING WIN!!!!!!!


dont buy a rover. dont.

[Mistikal]

Just put a fuel cell in the boot - problem solved :D

[Niva]

lol, would probabaly get me about 3kms.

gonna have a look how hard it is to get the tank out today, on the driveway, with a scissor jack ahahah

for the record though, when it was going it went alright. certainly wasnt fast but sounded the goods when doin skids! some how kicks LS like its locked

[Milhouse]

jack the car up, remove the bung at the bottom of the fuel tank (if it has one)

you dont want to loosen the bolts then have 40kg of fuel land on your head :D

[Niva]

i dont think it has one, couldnt find one yesterday. i copped roughly 30kg in the eye yesterday when i disconnected the pump lol

its a 70ltr tank and it reads between half and quater depending wether your going left or right

[kurbn]

wait til you start going through headgaskets...

they are tin head gaskets, no seals or anything, just stamped out of tin

they blow regularly.. its all thats available

why did u buy a rover anyway lol

[Niva]

why did u buy a rover anyway lol

skids :poke:

[kurbn]

Baha! go for gold son!!

[Niva]

just did the box mid skid HAHAHAH

fuck this piece of shit in the fucking ass

[Niva]

just did the diff, fuck yeh

[Mistikal]

Yep, definitely a Rover.

So diff, box and fuel tank are all fucked?