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Hi Les, im in Glasgow and have a 1996 2.6 Coupe for sale, grey in colour

Hi Ryan, bored again today so I spent a bit of time looking around the engine on my car, the inlet manifold is unlike anything I have ever seen its an all aluminium work of art with the Throttle valve at the bulkhead end and behind the throttle is the EGR valve this seems to enter the manifold further down from the throttle so it doesn't seem to go in on the fresh air side of the turbo pipe. I did a bit of research on the inlet manifold it would appear there are no swirl flaps in the manifold just a rather complex little intercooler system for the EGR every thing on the manifold is water cooled and looks like hours of FUN to strip out. With regard to the throaty induction roar it sounds like the induction pipe that runs from the other side of the MAF sensor is getting extra air from somewhere have a look at the polythene pipe where it attaches to the MAF sensor then inspect the pipe as far down towards the rear of the engine as you can, I have had this before where there is a rubber joint between the turbo intake and the polythene pipe, the rubber union had split and the car sounded deeper as you say when revved, but the easiest place to start is where the polythene pipe joins the air box as I have had problems when I disconnect the pipe to get the air filter out, the problem is that the pipe is so flimsy when you push it back on that the lower edge folds under and leaves a gap one side. The problem is the MAF won't spot the extra air coming in as it won't register a fault because it considers it doesn't exist, the only thing that bought the problem to light was the induction roar and the fact that the car was regenerating the DPF about five times in every hundred miles as the ECU picks up the extra air via the MAP sensor readings and adjusts the fueling to compensate so the thing over fuels and blocks the DPF quicker. Regards Steve.

same as this one gareth https://www.audiownersclub.com/forums/topic/17304-santorin-blue-avant/?tab=comments#comment-60833

Hi Ryan, I am guessing that they are talking about the inlet manifold and an educated guess would be that the swirl flap mechanism has failed, these monstrosities are a brilliant idea in principle, but being as on our engines they are cheaply made they tend to give problems as plastic limiters are fitted to stop the flaps from over running. It could of course be just good old fashioned gummed up manifold as this item has to deal with EGR gas as well as oil vapour scavenged from the crankcase ventilation system, I had this with my last cab which did not have swirl flaps but at 270,000 I had the inlet manifold off to clean it out the inlet ports were actually only using about a third of the port to breath the rest was black tar , the tar is caused where the EGR gas meets the cooler crankcase gas which has a lot of engine oil vapour in it which is hard to burn so it contents itself by forming tar. Ask them if they can run a scan on the car and see if it throws up any codes relating to the swirl flap mechanism, keep on with the updates as its all good info. Regards Steve.

Hi Les Me too! When searching on Google I have found sites that have adverts from seemingly all of Europe so I can't do much more than window shop at the moment. There have been a few though but the prices seem to be £5000+ and not always based on condition. Where have you looked? I'm hoping to find something close to what I had back in the early 90's, a 1983 Coupe GT5E 2.1fi. Of course I regret selling it now but that was 25 years ago. Where have you looked? Adrian