Harrop 2300 supercharger to Optimiser 6500

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This deserves an youtube video of the beast chugging down the road like a road-train. In-cab. No instrument readings. Just the GQ bonnet, the road and the sound!

Its funny the engine does not sound anything like the hollywood styled soundtracks. The supercharger at revs is quite a 'zinggy sound' not a Mad Max thunderous roar. It does however project an air raid siren howl forward when I am driving, absolutely howls, can be heard from 500m away easily.

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Still not out of the woods. I swapped over the All Terrains for my Muddies, and went for a spin. Car is still down on power when cold, hesitates, like its out of power, and the fuel pump pressure dropped to zero then rose again after a couple of seconds. The fuel chiller was off, ambient temps 34 DegC, fuel temp rose to 40 degC. Once the engine was up to around 70degC rad temp, its running sweetly. Cant put my finger on the issue, dont think its glowplug duration.

Decided to bite the bullet and power up the hydraulic circuit today to decide where the leaks were coming from and which I was going to fix myself. The major one is at one fitting into a check valve, then at the pressure relief valve, and a couple of minor leaks but all need fixing. Also, have a crazy pressure spike going on,flow to the front winch sits at 600kpa going thru the open centre valve dcv, and on the rear its sitting at 2000lpa, then drops when the valve is actuated - maybe something is stuck in the open centre spool - dunno, another ghost to chase. This may end up with a mobile hydraulics guys to sort out - its now a pig to get to the fittings as all were laid out when the body was off - big mistake.