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With a Spitfire and Hurricane (or 2 Hurricane?) flypast to boot

A cracking day at the Show. A nice drive down, minimal queuing to get in (Normally a problem). And a great Club Stand near the castle looking over the rest of the cars, and, of course, perfect weather. And with 6 cars we managed to fill the stand, which is a first (although we actually had room at the back for another six cars if necessary). And we were right near an exit so we didn't have to queue to get out. This Show continues to be popular, a huge number of cars turned up, lots of food trucks, entertainment...., a really good family day out. Thanks to Steve, Andy, Wayne (& family), Jim (+1) & Trevor for their support.

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My youngest son (12) has decided to come with me tomorrow car is all packed just need a pork pie and a dash of petroleum good to go ! See you all tomorrow

see you there.

Sorted, have just bought a ticket, see you tomorrow morning.

According to my maths there should plenty of room on the stand for you and your car Trev. Hopefully see you there

If I can rearrange a couple of things I might be able to attend. If I'm successful, is there still a space on the Club stand available? Thanks, Trev.

If it was me I would have kicked that cup of tea over within seconds of putting it down There is a good chance that the engine had it's compression reduced in some way - head spacer, thicker head gasket or similar when the supercharger was fitted. If so you would really need to put it back to standard if you removed the supercharger. I would imagine it would be easy to re-map the ecu but I don't know enough to help there - hopefully someone else can give you some info. on that. It might be worth explaining exactly what problems you're having with it and seeing if anybody knows of any easy fixes ............. if there ever are such things.

Hi new member here although i was a member s few years ago in hoping i can get sone advice I recently bought myself another robin hood its fitted with a 2 litre zetec which has a supercharger fitted im having a lot of trouble tuning it its fitted with a microsquirt ecu is it a simple enoigh job to remove the supercharger and remap the microsquirt ? And use it as an efi ?

Hi new member here although i was a member s few years ago in hoping i can get sone advice I recently bought myself another robin hood its fitted with a 2 litre zetec which has a supercharger fitted im having a lot of trouble tuning it its fitted with a microsquirt ecu is it a simple enoigh job to remove the supercharger and remap the microsquirt ? And use it as an efi ?

Good reminder. I’ll bring some stickers and flyers.

Just had a look myself and think I'm in the same boat as Jim - I'd have to go past Kimbolton to the meeting point. Not only that but I've got 120+ miles and a good couple of hours drive so it won't take much of a hold up to spoil my timekeeping - I'll see you there (I hope). Are you planning on taking anything club-wise Al ? I've got a folding table that I "acquired" and may be quite useful which I'll stick in boot.

Actually looking at it I would have to drive through Kimbolton to get to there so I will just meet you at the show, looking at everything it looks like a mega event and the weather is perfect ! Would be a real shame to only have a few cars turn out, surely we have more members within driving distance that can make this one ???? If you have never been to an event please make this your first and come and say HI YA !

Alan happy to meet up at 10:00am but need a bit more detail on the exact location ?

This is where we are going to meet, at 10:00. Just North of the intersection on the B661.

Sorry Jim, missed your post. Andy and I meet up a couple of miles from KimBolton. I’ll post details tomorrow when I can access my laptop.

Do you have any positive crank pressure, not had a Pinto for a very long time, but used to run a pipe from the crankcase breather back into the manifold that reduced the pressure & helped stop any leaks.

There’s definitely one on the outside of the body that seals to the block, don’t think there is anything internally.

I'm pretty sure that there's an O ring at the bottom of the dizzy to seal it into the block, but I can't remember there being any seals inside. It's a few years since I had a pinto dizzy apart and I'm working from memory - which is not as good as it used to was. I'll have a look through my collection of useless information and see if I can find anything else out for you. Steve

All being well I'll be there, probably coming across the M6 then A14 as the A50 has roadworks.

Who is turning up for this one ? Anyone fancy meeting on route and arriving in convoy ?

Hi Dean, Glad to have found your post even if it is from 10 yeas ago... and what do you know my Pinto has an oil leak around the distributor!! Did you ever get to the bottom of that leak? I'm convinced that oil is working its way up the dizzy drive shaft into the base of the dizzy and coming out the holes in the base. I can feel the oil there after a run and of course the oil pools on the ledge where the dizzy locates in the block. Does the dizzy have an internal oil seal / O ring that might have failed? Yours Kevin

Has there been a good turnout for these meetings? I haven't been able to make one yet. Any problems parking. I hear it can get tricky at weekends? I may be able to make it this Sunday.