This evening I took my 450SLC for a drive up the old Pacific Highway. I wanted to check the impact of re-connecting the vacuum advance on the distributor. I had discovered the line was broken when doing some maintenance. With the advance enabled, mid throttle response seems a lot better. I do get a little pinging when cruising on the motorway, so I am going to try 98 instead of 95.
During the drive, the SLC reached a big milestone:
That’s right, the SLC has finally reached 300,000km. I purchased the car in 2003 with 262,000km showing. As there […]
