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    • And they reply!  "We don't have them" Does anyone know of/possess such drawings, of the Spitfire or Vitesse? This product looks like this:  And they're asking £13 for them, so missing a large market, IM HO! John
    • Just seen these on eBay:  https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/376508629423?_skw=triumph+vitesse+cutaway&itmmeta=01KD07YPFEKJ4CMTQ9E7XBDCRG&hash=item57a9a9c1af:g:dwoAAeSw86Jorc2f&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAA0FkggFvd1GGDu0w3yXCmi1e2MVswuFQmKuoMBKXkwR0AaMpsgb4JbJptSAvdnxb45ceZw%2BejeSsSGZwwUR6M09UCcfCiXXmf5K3M2bIzL05pdrhNJE88kVybiC4%2FLAmMzK0HmRQysfWYqDv5U47%2BXzG58hLhgusrYLqgy2%2Fd8JPb995HQAZKljpVhFk9RF4MIUSlsrJswNooYW3Qmik63wWSl7bLtgbUpnY%2FC0Li6avMXs6Th%2F0sXTvebrKnIH3U6KB6F6LZCGPr4iPTJkxh0yM%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR57o-ofoZg Banners for your garage etc, of various Triumph models, Stag, Toledo, TRs and this GT6.   No Spitfire or Vitesse, but i've asked if they can do those. John No connection with the seller.
    • Do you know for sure if you are getting a spark? In my experience, if you are, even if the timing is miles out you get some popping and banging, sometimes at a scary level   
    • This one might be the culpruit. Thing is - embarrasingly - it is appr. 14 years ago I put the triggerwheel on the crankshaft, and I cant remember the logic, whether I used the 12 oclock top dead venter as suggested sensorplacement. However, as life turned out, sensor was laced at appr. 8 oclock. I figured, I could adjust this in the setting after setting up.  I better get a new timinggun to confirm what is up and down. That one also got lost in moves.   I will hack on!   Best wishes  Nick
    • not quite sure of your setup but I would check that you are getting a good signal from the timing wheel. \\you can do this with the MS setup not sure about the Megajolt.  I did have problems with the starter motor on my herald not turning the engine over fast enough to generate a good timing signal, the sensor signal amplitude depends on the speed of the teeth passing the sensor. mike
    • Ok….. problem for me is I never worked with MJL itself, only MS. However, my MS installs use EDIS for the crank position sensing and ignition in the same way.  You should be able get the engine to run even without the MJL connected. The EDiS just defaults to 10deg BTDC “limp home” if it doesn’t get a timing signal.  In your position I would be going to “analogue testing” - that is checking whether you get a reliable spark when cranking. Don’t forget it’s wasted spark so the companion spark plug needs to be in place when you do this.  If you are getting a spark but the engine isn’t firing at all then either you have the plug leads on in the wrong order (I have this T- shirt!) or the primary channels switched, which has the same effect (I this this T-shirt too). Alternatively you have got the relationship between trigger wheel and sensor wrong. If no spark at all then possible problems include -trigger wheel to sensor gap (0.5 to 2mm iirc and it needs to be roughly the same all the way around) - VR sensor polarity - power and earths on the coil pack and EDIS.  - Do you have the coil pack capacitor installed? Some say it doesn’t matter…. I found it does. I suggest concentrating on making it run in limp home mode first. I reckon once you get that rest will follow easily. May the force be with you!
    • I think we've been operating under that assumption for quite some time now, considering the concerted effort European leaders have been taking to keep the US in the war in Ukraine (and on the right side of it at that) since the start of the Trump presidency. The latest US security strategy just makes it explicit, with stated aims of promoting nationalist governments within Europe and attempting to peel off members from the bloc. It's effectively mirroring Russian foreign policy towards Europe. Then you have the likes of Nathan Gill in the UK, and 8 other 'Farage-bloc' European MEPs implicated in anti-EU activity explicitly on behalf of the Russians (which Farage has so far avoided being directly implicated in, though considering he voted alongside all of them he was either paid too, of just did it for the love of it...). And it's not just Reform. Remember when Boris Johnson refused to release that 50-page independent report into Russian influence in the UK government in 2020? It got released in the end (with many direct names redacted) but it makes for fairly grim reading. And the worst bit is that Boris explicitly refused permission for the committee to investigate whether Russian influence impacted the Brexit vote. Mightily suspicious. Scary times indeed.
    • Hello Nick Thanks for helping. It is very frustrating.  I did not actually start the car, it is in a closed garage, so I just cranked it until battery went flat.  The smith mechanical rpm gauge of the old dizzy dit fluctuate as i cranked the engine, and I would suspect at least some movement on the megajolt screen. There was absolutely no action on the megajolt screen apart  from the load gauge. And this surprises me as the green led on the megajolt box was flashing when I cranked the engine. I suspect the connection between megajolt and computer is good, as the MAP sensor is showing vacum fluctuatin on the load gauge. I have set the ignition advance to 12. But my theory was, that I could get a reading, and work with that with the original ignition in place, and when I have confirmed all works, I could switch. And if by swithching coil earths you mean the four green output dots in the lower right screen, they are all inactive. No lights. Best wishes Nick  
    • Hi Nick, great to hear from you.  Not so great that you are having problems….. and don’t give up and get a 123 - this is better once it’s working. So…. When you say it doesn’t register on the rpm gauge, is this on the computer screen or on the cars tachometer? Have you checked to see if the ECU is actually switching the coil earths?  Presumably you can still run the engine using the the original distributor - if you do this, and select the timing map in the software, can you see the ECU moving around the map. In fact, if the EDIS part is working you should have spark anyway with timing fixed at 10deg BTDC….. have you got that?
    • Hi John The red crosses on roundabout and the flags have had an unwitting supporter. Our Hillingdon Borought council at the same time as the crosses and flags put their own Union Jacks up on lamp post advertising the Battle of Britain Bunker that is open in Hillingdon. But the flags are large and the writting is small. Sue asked me what I thought of all the flags. My simple reply was that I would think the immigrants were pleased that we put the bunting out for them.   Roger
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