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After a few drives, I've come to the conclusion that the BBW needles are too rich for the current setup, even with the enhanced intake, so I've switched to BAF. I've not had the opportunity to cover many miles since I installed them but initial impressions are good. I'll still need to get the...

I'll be interested to hear if it makes a difference!

So, in theory, the shape and size of the inlet helps pressurise the filter canister? In that case perhaps, as you say, it's more beneficial at lower revs and might only be a restriction at the top end.

I think it's unlikely to be the gearbox bearings - if it was bad enough to be causing that kind of problem then it would be making a terrible racket as soon as you released the clutch. I had a noisy one in at one point and it never caused any problems in that way. That's why I thought it could...

Yep, shouldn't be the slipper pads then. How odd - with all of those new parts, nothing else springs to mind. Hope you manage to get it sorted!

Must be something that happens with these - mine is also seized solid, but luckily didn't shear when I tried to remove it.

You've been busy! That's looking great and that's a lovely finish on the valence and the other parts you've painted. Cellulose again? For the clutch issue, it could be the slipper pads. I had trouble getting the clutch to disengage fully when warm and the worn slipper pads were allowing the...

Thanks for the info. I might just try enlarging the intake of the P6 one later in the year.

Again, for something that unique, that appears to be in good condition, I don't think that's too bad at all! I doubt it would have made quite that much if it didn't have all of the police equipment still.

That's looking great. I might have to add something similar to the to do list for mine!

Thanks for the link to that thread, there's some really interesting info in there. Looks like I should think about enlarging the intake pipe.

I guess one school of thought is that the smaller intake will increase the ram effect into the filter canister, which might speed up the flow. However, the smaller intake could restrict the overall volume of air entering.

Thanks for the pic, I can confirm that mine is the standard P6 filter canister with the smaller size intake.

I think it's the P6 one, but I'm not sure, it was fitted to the car when I bought it, but I also know that the engine block is from an SD1. Is there any way of telling the SD1 and P6 filter canisters apart?

At a guess, output shaft. They have a reputation for being quite fragile.

I had a Mk4 Ford Escort that developed a similar fault, in my case I had to turn the headlights off to stop the engine! I suspect that something was somehow feeding back through the rear lights but I just lived with it.

I can't quantify it, but the throttle just seems that bit more responsive, which I guess could be the needle change too. It's probably a combination of the two, but it would have been running really lean on the original needles. That explains why an M6 tap ran through it so nicely!

So the last few garage sessions have been spent taking the carbs off (again!) to fit the new 'stay-up' floats and BBW needles. Well, the needles were fitted while the carbs were still attached to the car, but I couldn't do that with the floats sadly. I also took the opportunity to upgrade the...

Thought it looked familiar! Look forward to your thread update :cool:

Thanks Damian, we had such a great day. I wish I could take credit for the car meet planning, we'd booked our event months before they booked theirs :LOL: Some of our guests were convinced that it couldn't have been chance though :) My new wife likes being driven around in the Rover, but isn't...

Thankfully the car behaved itself for the wedding, although I've since had an intermittent problem with one of the carb floats sticking in the up position again. We took a detour so that all of our guests could arrive before us - the car was running so nicely it was probably a slightly longer...

That's very cool, bit out of budget though! Not putting a Rover engine in it seems like a bit of a wasted opportunity, but I guess there's easier options with more power available.

Chemistry at Oxford is very impressive! I haven't noticed much in terms of extra noise with the polybushes, but the whole rear end feels tauter than it did before. I'd be up for a meet at Haynes at some point, probably next spring the way that this year is going! I'm not so local to you...

I managed to find some pictures of a refurb that Alex did on the P6 club Facebook page that shows the heater with the gasket from a number of angles. All I need to do now is find some closed cell foam of the right thickness and measure up the heater! Thanks for your help everyone.

Does anyone know of a source for the heater top rubber seal (part 368292) please? If it isn't available anywhere, and I've tried all of the usual suspects, please could someone post a picture of what's on their car, so I can see if I can find something else that would work. Thanks in anticipation.