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« Reply #690 on: October 26, 2009, 10:30:08 PM » |
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Cheers Guys, it's been a little bit of a trial to get it running somewhere near to right, quite a few little things conspiring against us and some stupid errors caused by inattention to detail, that'll be me then  . I had a closer look at the exhausts tonight and the right bank is broken on all four primaries against the header plate, No. two is completely sheared. I am going to have to sacrifice the glass coating to get in to weld them and that being the case I may well add a tab to the collector to allow a brace back to the rear of the heads and either have them re-coated or, more likely, have a look at a stainless set for next year. |
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« Reply #691 on: October 26, 2009, 11:53:18 PM » |
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Keep at it Steve.
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« Reply #692 on: December 02, 2009, 07:12:53 PM » |
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That seems a long while ago, I did, eventually , fully weld the outside of all the pipes and then found a reason to hire in the world's biggest belt sander at work, borrowed it overnight and flatted back the flanges, they are now refitted along with a new carb and after firing it last night, I have to say it sounds a lot better, maybe not quite right but close. We have quite a busy Winter planned for it and to enable us to make a start I popped over to Basingstoke to collect the uprated bellhousing from Andy Robinson's place. I did make a small detour on the way back but to my disappointment the hardy hot rod builders had slipped away for they's tea !
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« Reply #693 on: December 02, 2009, 10:41:22 PM » |
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« Reply #694 on: December 02, 2009, 11:22:49 PM » |
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Bugger! What time did you call in Steve? I didn't get there till gone 4pm & didn't leave till gone 7 this evening. Thought you were going to phone first.
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« Reply #695 on: December 04, 2009, 11:53:30 AM » |
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« Reply #696 on: December 08, 2009, 08:17:13 PM » |
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"almost a metalflake type finish on that" Just about the roughest sand casting I have ever seen, it may just get a coat of clear to keep it clean. "that looks like the front bit of a old mini wing with the headlight hole" Thankyou for that, I'm crushed  Andy, I think I was there on Tuesday at about five'ish, just passing by. The car is now well and truly out of service for a while. I started to strip it down ready to lift the box out and whilst pondering the order of attack decided that it would be a good time to map the position of stuff ready to move the electrics about a bit, this lead on to thinking about battery size and cable runs and that meant a little more stripped off the chassis to get a good look, and so it went...... |
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« Reply #697 on: December 08, 2009, 08:25:37 PM » |
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By then I was thinking that it was just as easy to cut all the stuff out that needed it now rather than coming back to it later, that meant more stripping down and taking the whole loom and battery box assembly out , Bobbi might be pleased to know that the aluminium sandwich box is on it's way to the scrap bin, I never liked it much either. The floor is now covered with tools, nuts and bolts, and cable and I still haven't got near the gearbox !
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« Reply #698 on: December 08, 2009, 08:33:23 PM » |
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« Reply #699 on: December 08, 2009, 09:33:16 PM » |
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 you love it dontcha mate!... good on ya. mini front wing... 
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« Reply #700 on: December 08, 2009, 10:16:14 PM » |
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"You'll have it done in time. " 117 days and counting He can't be trusted on his own up there, I take a couple of weeks off and we've got no car again. |
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« Reply #701 on: December 09, 2009, 12:50:51 PM » |
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Already booked three weekends off for next year's events Nostalgia Nationals, Hot rod drags and Super Nationals.
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« Reply #702 on: January 09, 2010, 08:04:42 PM » |
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There was so much I meant to get done over Christmas, actually did nothing ! Getting back into it slowly now, it's a fair job just getting to the shed at the moment but we managed it today. Lit the fire and had a couple of hours on the car. First we lifted the gearbox out, not quite straight forward as I have made it all a bit tight in there, it would have been better to have had enough "slack" in the sliding joint to the transmission to let the rear U/J come fully apart. No matter, we got there in the end, another bit dismantled, possibly the last before starting to put it all back together again.
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« Reply #703 on: January 09, 2010, 08:18:17 PM » |
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The bellhousing was in far worse condition than even I thought, only the welds between the straps had really held. Part of this may well be down to the fact that we had omitted to replace the temporary bolts holding the rear mount to the chassis when we assembled the car, the plain steel nuts had come loose and let the mount move, the H/T bolts and nylocs are in a labled box on the parts bench, just didn't get fitted The object of the exercise was to replace the bellhousing so I had a tense few minutes trying to decipher the virtually unintelligible, smudged, photocopied instructions before throwing them on the fire and cracking on with it. Luckily it wasn't brain surgery and a bit of time with various cutters and grinders had us close, a bit of fettling with the die grinder had us right. With the old bellhousing off the difference was pretty clear to see |
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« Reply #704 on: January 09, 2010, 08:23:18 PM » |
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The casing cleaned back and the new Ultrabell trial fitted, all was looking good. Unfortunately the loctite and torque wrench are in the truck and the locker doors are frozen to their seals, I'll try and thaw them out tomorrow
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