calling 90q gurus....

[Mihnea Cotet]

At 21:26 12/04/2002 +0100, alan pritchard wrote:
>i finally got my 90q yesterday, 89, 124000, mint bodywork, slightly dirty
>beige interior, everything works.  A bit gutted though, it was supposed to
>be the 2.3 but turned out to be the 2.2 kv engine, although, this is strange
>(and i probably shouldnt have bought it because of this) Ive just found out
>it has the ng manifold, as far as etka is concerned the ke-jetronic is the
>same between the kv and ng.

Huh? The KV never got KE-Jetronic, it's plain old K-Jetronic, Alan! ETKA is
sometimes wrong too :-)

>  so it seems the block has been changed, which is
>a slight worry as i cant think of any reason why this would be necessary.

Hmmmm... maybe it spun a bearing...very unlikely but who knows?

>anyhow ive bought it now, i just hope it is ok after that, so my next
>question is this:  i kind of expect the engine is not advancing as  the car
>seems very flat, i havent thought to check for a vacuum advance unit on the
>dizzy, sods law say it is the ng dizzy, so can the ignition system be
>running the adv/retard without knock sensors, and can you fit knock sensors
>to the kv block?

yup, you can! and they should be there even though it's a KV block, at
least if the one who swapped the block knew what he was doing...

>I could really do with a hand here, i simply thought the
>car didnt pull as well as my cgt because it was heavier and we were three
>up.


Well, it could be that, furthermore the NG is slightly less powerful than
the KV AFAIK (133BHP VS 136) so if you have a KV in your CGT, the 90q
should feel less "nervous" but drive well as well...

That's all I can think of at this time,


Mihnea