Wheels have gone off to Tallaght Powder Coating for a new lease of life, they should be ready during the week. New tyres are ready and waiting to go on them when there done. The spare wheel was in good condition so was not sent off to be powder coated, believe it or not it still has the original tyre on the rim:
Canada and US codes only.
Made in W. Germany.
Went to work on the engine today, managed to get her fired up with a bit of fiddling and an external fuel source (fuel in tank is stale). Have a new fuel pump, fuel filter etc to go on next weekend when the petrol tank is clean out. Unfortunately the air/fuel mixture is way off so we need to get that sorted too.
When I bought the car, I was informed that there were ports etc that were used for taking readings on engine temps etc but when it went for its service with Volvo these were removed or blocked up. But the more we looked the more random parts we found, pipes leading to nowhere and random electrical blocks as illustrated below which we could not find either in the Haynes Manual or pictures of similar engines online:
Unknown orange pipe.
Protruding pipe had a small bit of rubber hose with a bolt stuck in the end of it. From other pictures of the same there shouldn't be a pipe here at all.
When the dirt was wiped off the rest of it, it reads Made in the USA and Fuel Carb Bowl. It's not connected to anything and sits behind the left headlight.
Random block with nothing to connect too.
Quite confusing, but hopefully someone might have an idea what they were for or it could be modifications by Lotus for the Delorean developement. Maybe someone has something similar on a Delorean engine etc.