MOT day yesterday! Got a pass no problem. I was a little ashamed as there was only 120 additional miles on the clock since the last MOT! Made up for it by taking her for a 30mile blast before the ink had a chance to try on the certificate! Your humble TR7V8 must be the best value fun open top V8 car you can buy, really enjoyed myself. The car drives and pulls like a train, 185 wide tyres trying to put 220lbft of torque down out of junctions is a laugh! Bouncy suspension coupled with 6 year old brake fluid and no ABS let alone power steering makes the drive so much more fun!
Still to fix the fuel pump but my bodge with a wire from the battery terminal lasted the morning, fuel pump wire enters the cabin behind the seats and the oil light is behaving it self so I think it's something under the dash.
Now to the engine noise, the reason I pulled the top end apart in the first place (and inevitably killed the fuel pump feed) was to clean the tappets and try and stop the horrible tappet tapping noise.
I now know the car has Rhodes lifters (tappets). The previous owner fitted them along with the realsteel Viper Hurricane camshaft. They are noisy as hell between 1k up to 2k rpm. From a web search these tappets bleed down at low rpm so they don't open the values fully but at high rpm they behave as normal tappets and away you go.
Many cars have a noisy tappet every so often, imagine 16 of them. It's a bit embarrassing driving through town with your engine sounding like it's about to blow up! I think I am going to change them for a set of normal ones over the winter and use the car more next year!
Has anyone experience of these tappets.
Will