richyb66

I bent mine around a length of 110mm plastic waste pipe. Just bent a bit at a time and lots of trial fitting.

Attendance list updated.

I've added this to the forum calendar: Saturday 30th and Sunday 31st May 2015

Wednesday 28th January 2015 is our annual Christmas lunch. Same format as previous years and at our usual monthly venue The Malt Shovel Pub, Coventry Road, Nr Stonebridge, Coventry, CV7 7HL https://maps.google....=classic&dg=brw To keep the table bills simple, most people normally opt for the carvery but other options are available: http://www.tobycarve...eislandmeriden/ Meet up from 7PM onwards and aiming to eat around 7-30 but latecomers can usually be accommodated. I like to give the pub a rough idea of the headcount a few days before the event so if interested parties let me know, I'll start a list. Last year I think we got 33 people so that's the target to beat. Everyone welcome (including ladies and kids). ATTENDING Richard and Jackie theduck (Stu)and Sarah Jez Morton Andi Clare and Jasper Graham and Dot Vic and Rita Steve, Rosemary, Rebecca and Queenie Alan +1 Thrashed (Steve), Dee and Paige Dino and Nikki Jess Dan + 2 tractor (Chris) Peter Mahony Gaz and Carol Adrian Martin T + 4 Zach + 1 Redtrev TOTAL 40

Game on!

At the top end of the engine, the diecast metal extra detailed parts that I bought were fitted. These consist of the throttle bodies, the mechanical fuel metering unit and the distributor. The clear yellow pipes are the fuel pipes going from the metering unit to the individual injectors and the thicked black pipes are the HT leads. The most difficult part here was drilling each fuel injector with a 0.5mm drill so that a 2mm length of wire could be glued into the injector to leave a stub to push the fuel pipe on to. I've still got to fit the throttle bodies on the other cylinder bank but I wanted to get an idea of the fuel pipe routing before the top of the engine got too crowded. A macro lens would help getting some clearer photos because the camera on my phone is a bit limited. For scale, the engine and transaxle is 10cm long overall.

A bit of free time over the Christmas break and a spot of inclement weather means I've finally been able to get a bit more of my kit built. The rear driveshafts were built up first, the shaft pieces are split longitudinally so that the UJ spiders can be fitted when the two halves are glud together. Nothing too difficult, just need to make sure that the joints turn freely so that the suspension can move up and down.

Correct,hang on to the donor V5. DVLA will sort that out when you register the kit. I'd just tell the scrap people that you need to keep it as part of registering your kit.

Get some photos of the shell showing the VIN plate and a few that show where your donor parts have been removed so you can demonstrate that you stripped a single car in the unlikely event that you're asked to prove it. I kept the reg plates off the donor and the rivetted on VIN plate. To get an age related plate you need to the engine number to match what's shown on the V5, most other bits could have come from any similar car so their actual provenance isn't generally questioned. Age related registration means your kit will get a plate of the same registration year as the donor, not the actual donor plate so the fact that it's marked as non transferable shouldn't matter. I take it your donor isn't currently on a Q plate? This might complicate things because Q plates can indicate that the age of the vechils cannot be determined. Other main reason for non-transferable plates are on older vehicle (pre-1963), if you transfer an older style number off the vehicle, they'll put a replacement number on it of equivalent age and then put a non-transferable marker on it to stop people pulling old reg numbers out of the system and flogging them as cherished plates.

It'll help if you identify the stalks you have by their part number first - early stalks are positive switching later ones are earth switching. Post up the part numbers and you'll be away. You're looking for something like 83 BG ******, 87 BB ******, or 90 BB ****** Wiring for 83 BG would be this:

To not need an IVA, it would need to retain it's current registration and there's several possible ways to achieve this as far as the DVLA are concerned. These are the most likely 5: REBUILT VEHICLE. Retain 2 major components from Suspension (front and rear), steering, axles (both), transmission, engine Retain original unmodified chassis or monocoque. So not possible by this method https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-registration/rebuilt-vehicles KIT BUILT As current kits, but where all new components are used (and can be proved) - if this can't be proved then it's a Q plate. Not possible by this method either https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-registration/kitbuilt-vehicles KIT CONVERTED This is what we'd call a kit based on a donor. If the 2B was the donor and the Zero was the new kit, it'd need an IVA that same as it would have originally. https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-registration/kitconverted-vehicles RADICALLY ALTERED Something altered from original spec, but not a kit. Keeping the current reg is based on a points system - you need 8 points but 5 of these MUST come from an original or new unmodified chassis or bodyshell. There's no mention whether the chassis needs to be identical to the original so this is a grey area but given that they assign over 50% of the required points to the chassis, I would think that they would expect to see a like for like replacement. (Like a new Heritage body used for an MGB). https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-registration/radically-altered-vehicles RECONSTRUCTED CLASSIC Built from genuine period components, all over 25 years old. As the chassis is new, this wouldn't work either. https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-registration/reconstructed-classic-vehicles So Radically Altered looks the most likely but I personally doubt whether a new chassis would qualify either to the letter or spirit of the regulations. Obviously if GBS know for sure that this method can be made to work in every case and can provide more information then I'd be very interested to see it. would be classed as a kit conversion. For this you'd need to retain 2 major components (simple enough) as well as the original unmodified chassis or monocoque (which you'd be replacing). https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-registration/kitconverted-vehicles

Not too far away from you: http://www.rhocar.org/index.php?showtopic=34470entry263728

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Obviously depends on what size quadrant you start with. I plated mine over and it rubbed through the nylon coveing on the inner cable almost immediately.

http://nw.rhocar.org/clutch%20pawls.htm Not all engagement problems are quadrant related: http://www.rhocar.org/index.php?showtopic=32315

3 minor fails on your test and now a simple re-test - well done. It's great when all the hard work and heartache pays off.

If GBS want to come on here and defend their customer service and delivery times, I'm sure people will read it with interest.

That must be where they get them sent from if their normal delivery times are anything to go by!

Reminder for tonight.

Is this on or off the car and how bad are the bends? If it's off the car and you want to straighten coils of new pipe before you use it, then roll it between 2 sheets of plywood. If its on the car then either straighten it carefully by hand or if it's badly bent, just replace it. Personally I wouldn't re-bend all copper brake pipes because of the possibility of damaging it and having the pipe fail.

WTF is 5d??? Does it look, feel, smell, taste and sound like real carbon fibre?

On mine I used some 3mm thick black plastic and added a strip about 30mm high across the bottom of the screen frame (30mm high in the middle, more at the sides obviously). This allowed me to mount the screen higher which gives better vision and more head clearance with my surrey top fitted. If you've got no groove in the underside of the lower part of the screen surround then fitting a plastic strip would be more difficult.

My spelling is generally excellent - it's the co-ordination between brain and fingers when typing that seems to be lacking.

I don't normally watch F1 but this was on yesterday while I was having lunch. I found it so boring I actually couldn't wait to get back to glossing 5 doors. I did see 2 programs on BBC4 last night though, One about Hunt vs Lauda in '76 and the other about Jim Clarke - proper exciting stuff. Obviously no-one wants to see a return to the times when there were several fatalities a season but for me I think they could no with making the cars a bit simpler to make the racing a bit more exciting.