Re; calling 90q gurus....

[Tom Nas]

"alan pritchard" <alanthecelt at alanthecelt.screaming.net> wrote:

>i finally got my 90q yesterday, 89, 124000, mint bodywork, slightly dirty
>beige interior, everything works.

Congrats! Drove mine for the commute yesterday (I usually take the 80) and
once more realized what excellent cars they are. What body colour is yours?

>   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. 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.

I looked at a very suspect 90q once that had the original 2.0 replaced with
a 2.3. Iron filings on the inner wings and all that.

Sorry, can't help you with the tech stuff, I'll leave that to the experts.

Regards, Tom