I bought the car over two years ago, I hold it entirely responsible for my Citroen purchasing obsession and my impending bankruptcy. While the car had had the hydraulics and engine overhauled by Andrew Brodies, numerous issues such as constant stalling while hot, misfiring, needing a new clutch and front brakes have kept it mainly off the road. With help from another owner the stalling was traced to old HT leads, so a new distributor and wiring from Renard in Holland was fitted. The remaining issue was the economy - the car runs a very early Bosch D jetronic fuel injection system and it over-fuels horribly. Searching around, I came across Renard who had fitted modern (CX) injection with Megasquirt ECU and Bosch sensors, and had it mapped by Autotune in the Netherlands. They have done this numerous times now to SMs, CXs and DSs, so having been to visit in May, I formed an immediate liking of Nard van der Meer there, and I drove the car over a fortnight ago for work to begin.
The first report arrived yesterday:
"I have done some work already. All hardware is installed. Monday my Freind Jeroen will come to do the wiring and startup. I think thuesday will be the first testrun.
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1 engine bay
2 I made a little modification on the tableau for generator, hydaulic pump and AC pump. Original there are some crappy rubbers. In your car there was zero damping. It was just bolted on! Very noisy. Picture shows home made silentblocks and front of ac pump.
3 Intake manifold with new CX injectors and fuelhose
4 patient on hoist
5 the oil pipe of the clutch broke when i touched it. So i had to replace for new one
6 for clutch pipe wing had to come of.
I did find some extra work. The silent bloks and the oil pipe. Also the wiring of the right headlight was wrong, and the main negative wire of the right side of the car was diconected. I fixed this already. I also regassed the front spheres, they where half empty. . Also fixed glovebox cover...Still left is the big electrical mess behind the oilcooler. Al the relais are just hanging around.... Do you want me to clean this up??? Also the middellights don't work and the low horns doesn't work too.
please let me know."
Just a few things - however, I finally feel the car is in the right hands, especially to get that Maserati V6 singing!
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