Booboo < I think we must be getting old m8, he he! Rs2000's eh? nose cones, forgot about them, mexico's too! Dolomite sprint, that was the fastest production saloon car for god know's how long, till Mitsubishi stole the crown. But try keeping the 16v head from warping, jeeez! Handled like a ferry too, but it has to be said it's one of the few times the British motor industry will be remembered for all the right reasons. I remember driving past the Linwood plant and seeing all the bright orange, already rusting rolls of steel that were waiting to be pressed and turned into cars, what hope could they have? I served my time on Fiats, if you turned off the engine and sat perfectly quiet at traffic lights you could actually hear them rusting! but Boy could they build an engine. 1960 odd saw the first Fiat twin cam and only tens of years later did the industry see the benefit and follow suit, You'd b hard pushed to find any kind of performance car now that isn't a DOHC. A good m8 of mine , years back suddenly turned up with this pure banger of a Hillman Hunter, remember them? pile of shite it was, white with a black vynal roof, lifted right out of the 70's. The car to beat in out town at the time was a Pugeot 309 gti, 1900, with a few tweaks he never claimed. The guy with the old hunter bet him £30 he'd beat the Pugeot around the town after the guy that owned it had taken the p!ss right out of the Hillman. Obviously the guy with the Peugeot agreed and off they went. I dare say you won't be as surprised to hear the Hillman won as we all were when we saw it come round the corner well ahead of the Peugeot. Turns out the sneeky swine had an 1850 Holbay racing engine with twin 45 webbers in it and never let on to a soul untill that night. That and the fact it was mated to a 13 or 1600 gearbox which gave it all the bottom end it needed at the cost of the top end it couldn't use around town anyway, saw it take the p!ss right out of the Peugeot. Never forget what he said to the guy with the Peugeot as he took the £30 quid off him, "when's your next payment" he asked, cheeky fecker! Another real quick car around here was a poxy old lada that someone hade dropped a Fiat 131 2Ltr twin cam in and left the 1300 gearbox on. What a roaster being burnt up by an old Lada! Those were the days, eh?
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what can I say? You'll find the wiring of the ECU and all the related parts can be followed and traced back to only 3 or four wires that actually connect to the main wiring loom. Most manufacturers do this so a basic loom can be put into the shell of the car as it's built because at that point they seldom know what model it will end up. Most manufacturers leave flying leads all over the place anyway, for all the various electrics that each model has.
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