But what makes this one so bad is that it is a show car and looks so good until I began digging under its skin so to speak. Previously I've only had to do normal routine maintenance but I haven't seen the car for about 18 months and since then some idiot has been mucking around with it and generally stuffing everything up.

The ECU was defiantly the problem as I've tried it in another car and it just no longer works but I'm dammed if I know what was done to it to wreck it as I've never had to replace one previously and I've even had one that was under water and all the electronics still worked. That did surprise me no end but it was only under for a few hours and it was clean water not the muddy junk that washes down the storm water drains.

Currently I've just modified the wiring harness to fit a newer Transistorized Ignition Module from one of my 116 Twin Cams along with the wiring harness for the four pins and the points lead. It even looks exactly the same unless you start digging down under the battery tray. It is only after you have removed the mounting bracket for the original one that you can see a difference and of course the trigger wire that I've had to run as the wire which is black with a white trace just no longer exists anywhere near where it should exit the loom. I'll get motivated latter and fix that one up but I've run 1,200 K's on it now without a single problem other than it is now running better than ever so I've had to muck around with the adjustments for the Auto so it actually picks up 4 th gear under 80 KPH.

The only other remaining problem is that it is loosing Power Steering fluid but there is no obvious place it is leaking from even on a hoist so I'm a bit at a loss on that count. I think I'll give it a good run and then park it on clean concrete just to see if there are any tell tale oil stains. I suppose it's a good thing that it isn't a daily driver as the owner would be missing it quite a lot by this stage.

Col