Manky Monkey Motors

Spent the last 15hrs travelling to grt yarmouth and back today, passed yer regards on to Desperate and loaded my car to the brim :) stacked in the corridors for now will have a shift through it all tommorrow.." i now...pics "
ont be starting nout soon saving for a welder.
On a side note, Baz i still feel guilty, i am once again Sorry for not being to uphold my previous commitment to you.

15 hours?! Jeez, I admire your stamina mate. Hope Chris made you a cuppa when you got there.

hehe yeah i had a cuppa :) then admired his workshop and the Indian and his morris 8, is it? nice place to live, the view was good, i feel like 120 today though lol dunno if i got the stamina to start shifting through this lot today :)
need some advice as well from the Manky Monkey Motors Forum Group...one engine was in a car that had a fire if the head was naff, apart from putting it on engineer's bench wot would you say was a tell tale sign that the head may be naff "i now im gonna regret asking this :)"

well if its ears got burned off you would notice its hat had slipped down ;) ;D ;D ;D
seriously...have you done compression test? although that may not give true record. best way is to take it off and check it, maybe get it skimmed anyway to be sure. being all alloy there may be distortion in the upper area so check rockerbox seating as well by upturning head with valves out and rockerbox fitted and sealed,partially fill with light oil and look for leaks at gasket area. hope this is of some help 8)

glad you got back ok, you must be well nannied after that.
take care
best wishes from us 2 ;D

"wot would you say was a tell tale sign that the head may be naff"

-if it's got Reliant stamped on it? -JOKING!  ;D
As Pete said, being ally, the heads are prone to warping so probably worth having it skimmed as a precaution anyway. Check it for cracks. Check the valves move freely in their guides -all the obvious things really.
Never met Desperate but chatted to him on the phone a few times. Seems a pleasant enough nutter to me. The supercharged Reliant he was building wasn't to my personal taste but I was watching it with interest cos he approached it's design from a completely different angle from us. Nice to see some variety out there.

Ok gents yer opinions are pretty much as mine easy for me to say now :) the engines i have are 1 realto 1 robin i think the realto is 800cc+ ? i forgot to check v5 Despot has it now, robin i think is 750, realto is the burn case :( that reliant charger 1 that Despot was doing is the one/all parts of it that i now have so it will be all down hill from here on lol "God is hurting to type lol"

It'd take me a week to recover from a cross country trip like that! You couldn't have gone much further to find a motor if you'd tried.
Early Robins were 750cc & supposed to be more tuneable than the later Rialtos, which were 850cc.

yer rite there :) the wheels had a deciding effect of it all :) i'll ave to see wot sort of tuning a 750 could take , wether i ca ndo it even? as apposed to the 850 with limited tuning :) "wot am i on about ill be lucky to get it running even :)"

Try Rebel Racing's website

http://www.btinternet.com/~rogerv/rebelt.htm

They race Reliants so should have info on tuning them. I was told the 750s are tougher so withstand being tuned better. Don't ask me why. There's no substitute for cubes though. Probably just as easy to just stick the 850 in if it's for normal road use. I've no idea how the gearing of the Escort axle will work out with a Reliant motor & those huge rear wheels but I'm sure Desperate will have worked that out.

axle is 3.4 its only gonna be rd use, tyres on the wheels are huge i can muck about a bit there if ratio probs are minimum

You can get different ratio diffs for the escort axle pretty easily. All sorts are available because of its popularity for rallying/ racing.

thats good to know :)