Nick Jones

Nice! Extracting the max as usual Video looks great to me. Not quite sure about the G bubble and how it relates to actual action, but speed is good and will make a useful comparison for future runs. Loton Park looking unusually sunny & parched. If the car has survived that long hill in those conditions it’s probably sorted!

Sounds like quite a lot of win at last! Well deserved. Hard-earned for sure…. Looks smart in the pic

Yes….. it’s the law…. Actually it might just turn up anyway now you’ve placed your order. Now you’re talking! Happy Bastille day

Excellent!

Cool! Folds up small doesn’t it! Glad you got the plugs sorted without major problems- they can be a right sod. (I once helicoiled one of these in situ in a Beetle for one of my brothers mates (rearward one otherwise probably impossible without dropping the engine out). This because it used to blow the plug clean out if he gave it any welly. Somewhat surprisingly this ghetto fix actually worked - for two weeks - then the engine lunched itself by dropping #3 exhaust valve…..)

He’s probably got them right to be fair. Suspect much rehydration necessary after baking all weekend!

Actually the original GT/Mike-the-Pipe sand-bend steel ones are not bad in this respect and have properly formed merges. The more recent offerings…. Not so much.

What Colin says about drain back holes! Something I largely forgot when I did mine, with the effect of returning the hot oil directly to the pickup area - Yours is already better than mine!

……And……? How did it go? Your public needs to know!

Excellent

Solar panels and battery mean that we’ve more or less only been paying the (shamefully hefty) standing charge for electric since March. There was sod-all solar for the 4 previous months though. Heating is via oil and we typically use 8-900 litres/year. Have already refilled this year and must have timed it fairly well as was just under 50p/litre, which was a fair bit less than last year. This is supplemented by a wood stove fed mainly by timber from the “estate” and immediate surroundings. Water/sewage is mains though we mostly water the garden from water- butts and our stream, though that’s become problematic this year as the buttsxare now empty and the stream flow is reduced to the point where filling the watering can takes and unreasonably long time.

Pretty warm for anywhere in the UK….. The interior temperature though

Similar pump layout on my GT6 except that I have a brake servo on the bulkhead in that location so the pump is mounted lower down on a bracket attached to the mechanical fuel pump blanking plate. Don’t seem to have fuel delivery problems but #2 son (who has been “lucky” enough to be the one doing extreme hot weather testing) reports that the car does get grumpy and cantankerous in extended low speed traffic situations. This is (I think) the carbs (Strombergs) getting hot and boiling the fuel in the the float chambers. It soon clears on the open road. IMO your hot start problem is due to the float levels being bit high so that when sitting the heat from the manifolds expand the fuel enough cause overflow through the main jet into the carb throat, so a hot start becomes a flood start. If you have fuelly stinking and/black smoke when it does fire up…. Case proven. Cranking with the throttle wide open may slightly speed start-up.

^^this!

Superb - looks great

Woo hoo! Love the Phillips Bay pic and great to see that J appears to approve. Is she glad or sad there is no passenger seat? Ah…. Air-cooled VW doing air-cooled VW things……There’s some fancy silver-coloured anti-seize that prevents this (still trying to remember the name ) absolutely not copper slip! Presumably this has two plugs per cylinder and twin magnetos? My A-level engineering project was to build a thrust test rig for a version of VW based aero-engine and that had twin-plug heads and two magnetos separately driven from the back of the crank.

Phew……!

Today we have been wandering Somerset in the Vitesse. About 100 miles all in including a fair bit of Exmoor, which was particularly lovely today. from just north of Dunkery beacon looking north to Wales. Bossington “beach” with Porlock Weir at the far end Then looking back the other way from Porlock Weir. The bollocks bit is that on the way home we were getting low on fuel, so I was keeping a wary eye on the fuel gauge, which suddenly went to below zero….. and yet the car kept running. Driving along pondering this it dawned on me that the indicators and wipers weren’t working either, so probably the brake lights weren’t either as the ignition controlled fuse must have blown. Bugger….! Quick fuse swap just wasted a fuse - fault still present! Made it home driving carefully and stopped for fuel on the way. Fault still present at home (as proven by connecting a headlight bulb across the blown fuse), so unplugged the 3 wires from the outlet side one by one until the light went out. This proved that the indicator and brake lights weren’t either circuits were blameless but the fuel gauge and wiper/washer ones still suspect. Some rummaging under the dash concentrating on the wiper wiring (distinctly non standard!) cleared the fault but I don’t really know why. Can’t recreate it. Just tidied and re-hung for now. Dash refurb and wiring improvement maybe needs to come up the list a bit….. At least I now know which wire to pull off to get indicators and brake lights back at the roadside!

Not going to be Mega Farads in any household appliance. That’s super capacitor territory. Might just be milli Farads (normally mF), but again somewhat unlikely as typical values for capacitor only motors are in the 2 - 10 uF (micro Farads) range. Seems that MF is the old way of writing uF.

Have you checked the voltage actually reaching the motor under load? I'm suspecting you've got some volt drop at a poor connection somewhere, maybe in the switch contacts, but could be anywhere back to the plug itself..... Good luck - 60 years is a good innings - would be nice to see it go on longer!

Nothing wrong with making it the car Triumph should have built Sounds like it’s all coming together nicely.

That brake drum….. Was that from your car or the spare axle?

Thanks!

Hi Roger, I already have a set of the MiniSpares flanged nuts and a set of guides here already thanks. The guides in the head are pretty damn good anyway…..

Sounds very positive Are you still on the 4.11 diff or gone to 3.89?