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I left at noon, and the first part was in fog and with a windshield that wouldn’t clear (I have no heater). Not fun. Soon it became better, all in all I “only” had rain 2/3 of the way. Stopped twice for gas, and once for Burgerking. Since there was all that rain and I had had my fun racing I never got over 150 and most of the time I drove 120-130. 960 km took around 9-10 hours. With no heater. And I’ve turned on and off the wipers at least a hundred times. The car felt like it was losing a bit of power…? Or was I just getting too sensitive? It didn’t feel 100% right. When I got home I looked at my vacuum gauge at idle, yes all over the place. Hhmmm? Why? Had no energy to check, would look at it Monday.

Monday. Pulled the plugs. Two were quite black, looked in my book on plug reading (sorry for the advertisement). That’s a problem with these semi-race engines, they’re set up rich and use race plugs. And a whole day of low rpm top gear driving had produced a misfire. Cleaned the plugs. I also did a compression test. Not that I thought anything serious was wrong, but the plugs were out, why not do it, and if something more serious was wrong, I could clean plugs and tune for hours without it helping one bit. Compression was good. I put the plugs in, started it, adjusted it according to my book (sorry), and problem was gone, a nice four-corner idle at 900 rpm, the best that’s possible with that kind of cam I think. All that‘s needed now is to clean it, that’ll take some hours tomorrow.