Mark

Looks Great!

Wow, what a great job!

I don't know if better nuts are available. I thought I was doing the right thing by fitting new head nuts to the Vitesse. Stripped a couple of them trying to get to the standard torque setting, sh*te quality. Fitted the old original head nuts, just in a different league of quality.

Fitted these to several cars over the years mainly for anti theft, but nice to know you can kill the power if needed in an emergency, track day etc. Fitted one to the Vitesse, then a couple of years ago whilst sat at lights the car died. Baffled, I started to tug at wires under the dash and found the fault to be the cut out switch. There are four spade connectors two of which split the coil/ ignition wire. When wobbled the engine would die. When you turn the red knob to the ON position, the switch is spring loaded pushing in a plunger that then makes the connections to the back of the spades. The spring load was forcing the switch apart, so the terminals were barely making connection. The switch is riveted together so I drilled them out and used a couple of nuts and bolts instead, pulling the two halves tightly together. I then had second thoughts, put the switch to one side and bought a new one. Three years on yesterday, going up a long steep hill in busy traffic the car died. Fogoten about the previous event, first thought was no fuel, the gauge was showing empty, but I had only recently put petrol in it. Managed to roll the car backwards out of a red route and parked up. After a bit of head scratching and tugging of wiring, the fault was again with the cut out switch, same issue as the one previously fitted. Found the original switch that I had replaced the revits with nuts and bolts and fitted that. Seems these are not up to daily use, as turning the switch on, puts it under load from the spring, slowly forcing it apart. I think replacing the rivets with nuts and bolts will solve it. Could have been dangerous if this had failed going down the motorway. Managed to wire the switch up wrongly by holding the new switch in the same orientation, and swapping the wires over. Turned out it was upside down, so wired the live through the resister to earth. Thought I could smell something, put my hand under the dash briefly! that confirmed the resister was hot enough to melt some plastic insulation. Just a white porcelain type block, don't know what's inside or if I've knackered it or not.

Yes agree, Strombergs are excellent carbs. Got the originals still on my mk2 gt6. Sometimes takes a bit of starting, but fires up instantly with easy start, but very quickly settles to a tick over, not adjusted them for years. Fitted 175 sprint SU’s to the Vitesse, had to tweak the idle a few times over the years, take longer to settle to an idle but work well.

If the fuel filter is clear, then it's possibly the pump, but a faulty fuel pressure regulator could cause a none start.

Not seen this before, don't think it's got a triumph gearbox. https://youtu.be/TfQjHnTWsPo?si=qezRWw2WZN7RJwOK

Looking good!

Bikes been back on the road for a few weeks after cleaning the injectors with carb cleaner and the injector driver runing at different pulses. There may have been the tiniest bit of debris (smaller than a grain of sand) spat out onto a clean sheet of paper from the injectors, but hardly anything, spray pattern was hard to judge though. Also cleaned and blew through the throttle bodies. There's was also a moulded plastic part of the pump housing that the pump and regulator fit to. Missed this first time around,and very hard to see, but inside there was a tiny fine mesh filter, no access but managed to dismantle it enough to fit into a small ultrasonic cleaner. Several cylces and blow through with compressed air produced some debris in the botton of the ultrasonic tank. Reused all the injector O rings, that appeared in good condition, and still supple. Smeared with a tiny amount of silicon grease and all went back together easily. I did struggled for an hour to attach the twin open/close throttle cables to the throttle bodies. Supprisingley the bike runs 95 percent better, think I detected the odd hesidency once or twice but it could have been that it was still cold, but chalk and cheese while riding now. It could have been shite in the actual bodies or the newly discovered internal mesh filter causing the problem. Seems to me that injection is more sensitive to contamination that carbs, judging by the tiny amount of debris removed from the fuel system.

Fingers crossed it will turn up complete and umolested. But for someone to steal a Vitesse, they know what they are after, it's not going to be joy riders. People don't think twice at buying a decent pair of doors etc. at an autojumble.

If you want to help loosen something that is really rusty/seized try Scewfix no nonsense penetrating oil. It comes in 750ml cans, good price, and it really does work. In my experience better than plus gas.

I've got 2 cut outs and alarms on both my Vitesse and gt6 as well as a steering wheel lock on the Gt6, ott? Having had two cars stolen, years ago, and more recently a motorbike, you just can't let your guard down. A real PITA, but not a nice feeling to find an empty space where your vehicle should be. Presume the Vitesse was stolen for parts, or ID change, sickening.

Started suffering from withdrawals without my Sideways daily (hourly) fix. Thanks Craig.

Thanks Roger I was thinking of getting one for my Spitfire restoration project. Have a Denso on the Vitesse, but it only has two spade terminals. This has three. What goes to the P terminal or do you not use it?

Thanks for the tips! Bought one of these off eBay to check the injectors. Has six pulse modes. Had a quick try this evening, needed an extra pair of hands, but all injectors appear to be spraying evenly and at a similar rate. I was hoping to find an obvious blockage or spray patern variation. Tomorrow I'll set them up to fire at a sheet of paper.