Hiya,
It is ( as far as I know, having only had it a few weeks ) a genuine 1996 RR p38 DSE Manual. It does not have EGR and yes has the alloy inlet manifiold.
Good news is that I have had it running again yesterday and managed to give it a good shakedown drive for a good half an hour... without any coolant loss or over heating. So pretty pleased.
My main concern is the engine ECU is not getting the correct coolant temp of the running engine as my nanocom evo readings are saying the temps are in the neg- degrees pre start up and only getting to +1.6 degrees temperature at what I believe ( going by the now functioning dash temp gauge, showing half up the scale ) to be proper operating temp.
So if the engine ECU is only getting cold temp readings... I believe the engine will be overfuelling? Would this be correct???
This M51 does not appear to have a heat start mod done to it either, as may have been suggested earlier.