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    Rhocar And Ipad2

    This is an edit from my iPad!
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    Rhocar And Ipad2

    Works fine on my iPad! I've posted several times from it and I make enough mistakes to be fairly sure I've edited at least a couple!
  3. The one on the far left is the exhaust pipe shield, you wrap it round the silencer box. The other large one with the 4 tabs wasn't used on my 2b nor could I see any reference to it in the DVDs. The middle one looks like a steering rack mount but mine was welded to the chassis already!
  4. It no good being big if you can't get it in! It's not how big it is anyway, it's what you do with it that counts! Shame I'm crap on both counts! I feel so inadequate with just a 2 litre!
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    Iva Confusion

    Just to add my experience. The tester at VOSA asked questions of me that were clearly designed to probe my knowledge of the build but had I not built it myself would not have been a problem to answer if I spent some time looking at the car before hand. He never actually asked me "did you build the car?". The chap at the DLVA was only interested in what I had declared about the components on the form. If one was "cheeky" you could just not tell them you didn't build the whole car! None of my submitted pictures actually showed me doing anything on the car except that it was not a professional looking garage. The spirit of the declaration is clearly that you built it or at least had a major part in its bulid. However, it does vary as to how each examiner interprets the rules. As suggested earlier in the thread phone the VOSA centre that you have chosen to ask for advice.
  6. Mine passed IVA with the handbrake on the floor 4 weeks ago, just make sure you place an angled spacer at the front of the mount to raise it up by about 3 cm.
  7. In theory you can see if it spins BUT they are bloody "torquey" and will rip themselves out of a vice if not VERY securely clamped. You should be able to confirm the solenoid works, that the gear is thrown up the shaft and see if the motor spins but there is no guarantee that it has the ability to deliver the power required as even with a winding blown it will still spin.
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    Dvla Problem

    Now, that's what I call a good response to a question, couldn't be more helpful !
  9. Cheers, I will do just that! Are they a standard sort of box fitted to many models or am I not so lucky?
  10. Now I'm on the road, finally, I will be keeping my current set-up of pinto/type 9 for a while yet. Thinking ahead to late next year when I plan to transplant my VR6 engine in to the 2b I'm after suggestions as to what gearbox to use. My first thought was the later sierra MT box but it need not be a ford I guess? The VR6 can produce around 220 BHP and around 240 Nm of torque ! Any suggestions from you geniuses will be appreciated! I'm sure I'll have to make an adaptor but I do need it to cope with the grunt.
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    What's In A Name?

    In the early days of the internet and email, having your own domain name for say malcolm@etc was too expensive so I wanted a "handle" for @whoever.I.needed.to.use.at.the.time. The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy was quite new to the world at the time and the Guide at the centre of the story was published by the entirely fictional Megadodo Publications!
  12. Are you not using the sierra column then?
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    What Carbs

    I used to be indecisive, now I'm not so sure! Have you got a coin you could flip? Not much to choose between Webers and Dellorto's really so that's no help. It is all down to how well set up they are. Bike carbs 45s of some description and injection all need to be rolling "roaded" to the get the best out of them. From what I can tell through all the discussions and personal experience is that most people get too big a carb set up for their engine tune so they loose the low engine speed flexibility whereas the bike carbs don't seem to suffer from that as much and get a better "throttle response". Having said that, my twin 45s on a 1600 BMW would pull throughout the revs, when the carbs were balanced.
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    More Pre Iva Photos

    You need to fit your seat belts properly! You also need a central rear view mirror but I guess they are already on your list?
  15. "You were lucky" when I were a lad living in London "I had to lick the motorway clean before breakfast", no seriously, I had no garage and had to do all the car maintenance 2 floors below the flat in whatever weather was going. I've rebuilt a cavalier engine on a wall beside the car! I had to string 2 extension leads together to get power to the car. Them wert days!
  16. Just read the first post more closely "09.00, leaving at 09.45 latest to have a 35 mile run to Kimbolton" I'm afraid that from the black cat to Kimbolton is only about 10 miles unless you have a very convoluted route worked out to go via?
  17. You've either burned yourself on your exhaust or your a liar! Sounds familiar????
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    Car Just Cuts Out

    It must be catching! I popped out yesterday for a drive to the local club meet and she just died on a roundabout! She wasn't hot, no warning lights, just died! Couldn't see anything wrong, unplugged and plugged back in a few ignition connections, still nothing! Just about to call Green flag 5 minutes later and thought 1 more go and she started, fine for the rest of the journey there and back? Still can't see what the issue was?
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    Dash

    ETA for IVA?
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    What Carbs

    Throttle bodies and injection are not that much more than a new pair of webers although the sound of well set pair of 45s sucking in all that air still give me goose bumps!
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    Dash

    Looking good, not too "busy" either! I'm always torn between information overload and the "clean" look. Or are you putting in some more dials? I'm still thinking about whether or not to add volts, oil pressure and oil temperature!
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    No Go Pinto!

    Is you tank vented or is the vent blocked? If not it could be causing a vacuum making it difficult for the pump to deliver fuel to the engine. Are your fuel lines getting hot leading to vaporisation, same with the fuel pump? 95 with a pressurised coolant system is fine by the way. What fuel pump are you using?
  23. If the weather holds I'll see you at the little chef at 9, it'll make my route longer, but what the hell isn't this what kit cars are all about??
  24. I think the engine breaking away from the gearbox has absorbed a fair bit of energy!!!
  25. Why does this sort of stuff never come up when I want to buy something!!!!!! Wish I could get some rear end measurements!
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