Rover 214si

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Is there not a gasket on the inlet which fails and allows water into the cylinder on these?

Taken the manifold off and resealed it, running on 4 again but still steaming a lot, taken the plug out and looks dry though.

Probably false hope hahaha.

I did manage to break the fill point round the back of the engine while doing it though, so covered that in goo and will have to wait a day or two to brim it and test properly. Will let you know the result!

Now that's a proper rover! none of this posh rover shite! these used to get the Tseries engines dropped in, you could even drop the vvc engine in from the coupe.
Just a shame these were binned before their time.
give you a tip. put on the later kseries mpi manifold and down pipe, as that opens these up, don't bother converting it to mpi as its not worth the f*ck on!

Interesting... how to you run the SPI and the MPI manifold together? I wouldn't have thought that would work.

you can leave the spi inlet on and run the later mpi manifold, as the 16v block is the same. The spi manifold is very restrictive compared to the mpi one.
basically all you are doing is just upgrading the exhaust side of it.