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« Reply #780 on: September 23, 2008, 11:55:01 PM » |
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So the pipes were cut & the extra sections added in.
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« Reply #781 on: September 23, 2008, 11:58:13 PM » |
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I left Loony welding up the various sections. The pipes now clear the chassis rails & the body nicely. Perfect.
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« Reply #782 on: September 24, 2008, 12:00:17 AM » |
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« Reply #783 on: September 24, 2008, 12:03:01 AM » |
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Oh & the drop arms are fitted to the lever arm suspension now, connecting the units to the radius arms.
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« Reply #784 on: September 24, 2008, 01:25:49 AM » |
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Looks like your making good progress there, cant imagine having more than one project on the go, madron had 28 last time i asked  |
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« Reply #785 on: September 24, 2008, 05:06:19 AM » |
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We've got 4, 3 of which will need MSVA/SVA ing & I get seriously stressed about them all. Must admit I'll be glad when they're all done.
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« Reply #788 on: September 24, 2008, 04:25:45 PM » |
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ont be long before its looking as nearly finished as the trike  what the hell are you going to do then |
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« Reply #789 on: September 24, 2008, 05:56:36 PM » |
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excellent progress.
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« Reply #790 on: September 24, 2008, 09:51:22 PM » |
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« Reply #791 on: September 24, 2008, 10:10:05 PM » |
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« Reply #792 on: September 24, 2008, 10:23:28 PM » |
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I'm going to sell you all to Richard Branson. So after the success of bodging up the right hand exhaust, we thought we'd bung the left hand one on. Hmm, somethin' ain't right there. Closer examination revealed the two headers to be completely bloody different. Not only are the 4 down pipes different shapes from one side of the engine to the other, they actually run into different ports in the collector box. Oh poo. Much head scratching & munching of Pringles, (a garage favourite), & we had to admit we'd have to cut it up & do it again. Poop. So the left hand header will be made up of roughly 23 thousand seperate pieces of tube. It'll be fine. Honest. |
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« Reply #793 on: September 25, 2008, 10:24:28 PM » |
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Arrived at Loony headquarters today to find he'd managed to sort out 3 of the 4 pipes of the left hand header. Not only that but when I got there the motor was running. A bit lumpy -not suprising as there's only 7 out of 8 pipes & lots of holes to be filled in the ones it's got, but it fires up at the first turn of the key touch of the wires on the battery & chugs away quite happily. Result!
Now for a techy question for you lot. There's an electrical fitting in the ignition circuit we can't identify. I'll grab a photo tomorrow, but not much to see really. It's a block of clear resin, wrapped in aluminium sheet, with 3 wires going into it. One goes to, (or maybe comes from), the + terminal of the coil. One to the - terminal & branching off to the distributor & one straight to the dizzy. Any ideas? Is it a ballast resistor? Seems to be acting as a switch in the circuit as without it connected there's no spark at the plugs. Can I replace it with the coil I bought for my trike, which has a ballast resistor piggy backed onto it? It's an ugly lump of ally & resin so would be nice if we can get rid of it. My engine's a late 70s SD1 Rover by the way, with a P5 or P6 gearbox & possibly Range Rover heads.
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« Reply #794 on: September 26, 2008, 10:19:13 AM » |
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