Help needed

the air filter is very important in any engine, diesel especially. less air input equals less power and more fuel wasted.
my bus had been chipped to around 160bhp, bigger intercooler, last owners expense.
they had fitted a performance filter, sponge type. upon cleaning it, it fell apart. I also have a large fish tank,wait for it....
with a fancy filter system. the filter material used in it is very close to the old filter used in the bus. guess what happened next,
oh yeh. cut the old filter seal and gauze of the old one and made myself a new filter. about 2" thick with a thin coat of oil on the underside of the filter and that was three months ago.
now when I boot the old girl not only does she jump into action but, what was a black puff of smoke, has now turned into a light grey puff of smoke.
also an electric fan lightens the load on the engine.
the disconnecting of the egr valve remote air pipe.
if you get your hands dirty, remove the inlet manifold and clean out all the oily crap robbing airflow to the engine.
allot of work for a newbie, but this is how you learn to understand your engine and learn to keep it running the best you can.
that's before you start talking becm's and computers scattered all around the car. todays cars are all doing what the range rover did nearly 20 years ago.

crap.

has he run off?

tomcat59alan said:

You can call me Alan

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Hi Alan.

Mark Piercy said:

that's before you start talking becm's and computers scattered all around the car. todays cars are all doing what the range rover did nearly 20 years ago.

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The Vulcan comes to mind.

It was a fully electronic fly-by-wire state-of-the-art flying machine, the same principle which all large planes use today. However despite enough money and plenty of enthusiastic hands-on bods they had no choice but to decommission it because the technology is so far from anything used today that there's no-one left to sign it off.

The P38 (and other early high spec cars) are fully fly-by-wire state-of-the-art flying machines, the same principle which all cars use today. But technology wise a far reach from todays cars. Fortunately MOTs don't interrogate computer systems as deep (just yet..)