Mrbarry

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My thoughts are change the oil as fast as possible. If it was over fuelling as much as you say then fuel will have run past the rings and the oil is scrap now. Running the engine like that will wash the bores in seconds. Low compression is a sign of a problem, gas escaping somewhere. Oil down the bores will cause a massive seal on the rings for a compression test and if the results rise like yours that’s proof it’s rings or bores at fault. If the compression is still low with oil poured in the bores it’s head at fault, valves not seating, stems bent, head gasket not sealing.... Id swap the oil ASAP and get the engine hot then retest. Use Mineral oil it will help the rings cut to seal to the bores, synth or cemi is too slippery for that.

I get my replacement washing machine bearings from Bearingman / BML/ Hayley. They generally have them on the shelf and rather than £60 they charge you £10. Most bearings are standard items like a 6202RS, that’s fairly common on washer drums.

Unsure on the specific ecu but that’s how they normally work. Motec etc

You can set it up against road speed, it limits revs until you get to a set speed then lets them go, it will let the revs grow as speed grows on a linear or exponential scale. You can simply use the speed reference from the gear box or the speedo drive. It’s not as good as using an input from a none driven wheel but it works. I’ve used it many times. I for one had to use the speed reference from the speedo because I had a 4 wheel drive so no none driven whee for reference. The need for a none driven wheel is because if you spin the wheels it would assume you had accelerated. You can also set windows for acceleration, it can for example be told your car will do 0-20mph in ‘x’ seconds and if it goes below that time to cut back. You quickly learn to use modulated throttle in conjunction with it in wet weather.

Brushes are carbon based but sintered with copper to give ductile properties, it also effects wear rates and commutation. you can normally get close by colour for a cheap motor like a starter tho.

Nice motor, classic silhouette Had a chop top pop years back with a V6 up front from a Lexus. Was fun trying to get it to put 280bhp down, and the lack of power steering etc like the zero..... always planned a remote servo for the brakes, but you know!

How old is it? Looks identical to my old mans and that’s from the early 70s. no car puns to add I’m afraid.

If you made a Venn Diagram of kit cars and difficulty it would be one circle!

With ya there!

I have had my jag from new so I’m lucky to get life time cover for around £30 a year, that’s everything apart from home start. You can cheat tho, register from an old address so if you get trouble from home......

I agree traffic is building steadily on the roads. And there are some real knob heads driving thru red lights and doing crazy speeds too.

My old bmw E30 had internal fuel lines from the factory So should be fine for IVA. I believe they have to be ‘covered’ so a hose pipe could be classed as so??

Oh spot on I’ll look into that thanks.

Ouch that wouldn’t be good. I like my gardening, no I love it actually. I have a large lawn that takes two hours to mow and I must admit that’s a bit much, it’s ok some days, but when it’s growing and needs doing every 5 or 6 days and I have to get it done between work, rain and other commitments, I wish it was much smaller. So rewarding to see it done tho. I grow veg too obviously, I’m not especially successful but I do enjoy it. This year I wanted to do 150 onions, a row of beans, three rows of carrots and a big patch of spuds. Onions had gone off in the bag tho. No onions for 8 years would be a nightmare they are my favourite veg to grow. Going to get a greenhouse up this summer. Try some more tropical stuff in there.

Any one got any going spare? I have planted out as many as I can but a pack of 100 of them where rotten as a pear. It seems there’s a national shortage this year with everyone off work doing gardening and diy.

2 inch may be better than 2.5, larger bore can some times slow the gas flow so much it removes the scavenging effect and stops efficient cylinder emptying. It has to be matched (tuned) to the CC of engine, RPM window and flow rate of the head. It will likely move the power curve closer to the red line regardless. Not all pub bragging is a good thing here. Unless the engine is force induced that is, go as big as hell then, all of the other crap is just irrelevant once you go that route. Saying that in these cars it’s often nice to rev the buts off them and low down torque isn’t high on most people’s want lists in a 500kg chassis. So as long as you know what it will do to your torque curve.... easiest thing is obviously see if anyone with the same engine has maps pre and post ‘upgrade’. A dyno tweak of the ecu’s map would also be wise for best results.

BBQ with the mrs last night in the garden enjoying the views too. Planting out the allotment behind the garage today enjoying the views in the daylight.

I don’t work in the machine shop I only do foreigners on occasion. I did about 18 months turning as a teenager tho and emery cloth by hand was common for taking a tiny bit off a diameter or even adding a thou touch a diameter oddly enough. As always no lose clothing, no long hair, no gloves, no necklaces or dangly stuff, no no and no. And NEVER leave the chuck key in the chuck!!! As for creating a radius, use a radius tool. If you don’t have one you grind one. That’s the correct way. We have all used a file tho.

Not trying to be an arse by the way, just pointing it out. The rather large fine we received was enough to make the company twitch. But as you say working at home is nothing to do with HSE. I would still happily use emery and a file in a lathe because I always have done. Not at work tho it would be instant dismissal if I got caught after recent events!

Also be aware it is illegal in the UK to use emery cloth or a file or any hand held cutting or polishing media in a lathe unless held in a jig. I did not know this until last year when a work mate had a finger skinned when his emery cloth snagged and pulled him into the work piece. He was a machinist with decades of experience but sometimes it happens to the best operators. As a result of his injury we had the heath and safety executive come on site and crawl all over the place. We had meetings telling us how it’s now outlawed etc etc. The company got a £1.6M fine from HSE because of the incident and for not having records of educating employees against the practice. So don’t end up in his position, stay out of trouble and more importantly don't hurt your self. At home you can still do it, but not in a work place. HSE have no jurisdiction over private homes and private individuals.

Axel stands are a good call, I use blocks of wood under the lower ball joint plates. Keeps the rubber 10mm off the cold floor and I can spin the wheel now and then. Fuel lines is a must mine stink of leaking fuel. Good shout that man

We are lucky. The wife pays about 7 or 8 quid a month for Ocado smart pass membership. We get special discounts and cheaper delivery. But it’s proof we are regular shoppers not chancers who had one cut price delivery then moved on in 2012. Now they have a separate site for smart pass members and guarantee one delivery per week, you get preference over none smart pass shoppers. As it should be! Care for their regular customers not random people. You do only have a 1 hour allotted window to fill your ‘basket’ each week to to keep site traffic low but that’s no problem. I’ll be doing my bit by staying home and working in isolation at work. Time for pretending It’s not happening is long past.

Yeah locally it’s the same. Very much seems to depend on local council how far they take it. Accordingly there is to be a step up in efforts this weekend because people are still not staying in tho. There was a BBQ not far away a few days ago that the police had to split up. Come on people we know the rules As for gangs of kids playing on parks, well I hope they don’t get it because hospitals don’t accept family members any more. So a kid alone in hospital scared and I’ll, mum and dad at home no idea what is going on. Hospital visiting is not allowed under any circumstances around here. Not a nice thought. And god forbid they take a turn for the worse alone in hospital. How would that play on a parents conscience for the rest of their days?!

Yeah there’s road blocks around here checking where people are travelling. My mrs has an official letter allowing her to travel as a key worker If the shops are open and you are close to home, so not joy riding 40 miles away, then you can go shopping alone. They take your reg and remember you tho, I wouldn’t try it twice! £30 as a fine is a joke tho, needs to be far far more to put some real deterrent in place £300 would make people think twice. My track car had no number plates but I would drive on the roads for testing, getting fuel etc (was road legal). I was stopped a few times and fined £30, like I told the coppers as long as you don’t stop me more than once a day I couldn’t give a damn about the fine because it’s not points. Drink drivers deserve to be caught. I shopped my old neighbour for it and she lost her licence for 18 months, I told her it was me too. No time for those people! Do what you want in your own life but don’t endanger my kids please.