steve in stockport

don't think I can help you Jase, I'm now working Friday night doing a favour for someone so I'll be coming straight from work with my car full of work gear on Saturday Plus I need to get my front shocks over to Dampertech for a rebuild before the show.

if it's happeneing under hard braking it's got to be oil surge, how effetive is the baffling in your sump? Best baffle is a full plate with a hole for the pick up pipe and small gaps around the outside for the oil to return below the baffle. If it's just a verticle plate the oil can still surge over the top and cause loss of pick up

Looking forward to it Mitch, think I need to get my front shockers rebuilt before the trip as one seems to have a bit of oil mist on it. Will contact Dave at dampertech and see how quick his turn around is.

Glad it's all going well, looks like you missed the rain we had here yesterday, that was proper roof on weather. Safe journey for the rest of the trip.

Sorry to hear that Phil, was it over here or back in the UK? Steve/Bob we're not in the kit so no wiper issues, but if you guys encounter the same kind of weather as we did travelling here last week you might be glad of a spare wiper motor! We're in Eguisheim and when it's hot it's hot, but when it rains it absolutely pours down, four hours of thunder storms this afternoon.

Back on offer again at £12 for 4 litres, all grades including fully synthetic so fill your boots, or sumps.

Excellent news Pete, leave well alone for the rest of summer and get all your mods sorted out over winter

Full day was £250 which was 10 til 6.15pm and for that Dale gave the car a complete remap as the one in there wasn't suitable for the engine set up.

That's where I'm off to in October, day 1 Stockport to Caen via Portsmouth, day 2 Caen to Orleans, day 3 Orleans to Coudes, day 4 Coudes to Ussac via Gorge du Tarn and Millau, day 5 Ussac to Tours taking in Oradour sur Glane, day 6 Tours to Le Havre ferry and home to Stockport.

A work colleague had a strange overheating issue with a golf tdi which turned out to be corrosion blocking the metal tube connecting the header tank to the cylinder head/thermostat housing. Cleared the pipe and the issue went away

That looks like a standard gasket, do you not need to upgrade to a steel or multi layer if you're running a supercharger?

Welcome back Dave, contact Chris Newlands and ask him to change your area from North West to Scotland and you should get a list of Scottish members with your card etc. Are you joining us in Dumfies and Galloway in August?

Yes, nice mk2 escort or capri boot spoiler gets my vote

C20XEV is the engine code for the early ecotec engines when Vauxhall changed over from the C20XE red top engines to comply with emmisions regulations. I think they produce around 130bhp, so not a massive leap up from your pinto and there's quite a bit of expense involved. You'll need a bellhousing, clutch, engine mounts, engine management, fuelling, exhaust and possible body/chassis mods. Red tops are getting long in the tooth now and finding a genuine good one will be hard work, a zetec would be my choice for a relatively easy swap these days.

Get rid of that pea shooter and put a decent exhaust on, add an air box instead of the dome filter on the carbs with the intake piped to the front and a lot of the noise will be gone making it a much more pleasurable experience

I thought the sump plug was the preferred location for an oil temp sensor as it tells you temperature of the oil in the sump not the block, which would be roughly the same as the water temp

Parking fine or charge? There's a difference. Have a look at POPLA for advice as well as Martim Lewis money saving website.

After having my own kit car related annus horriblus I glad to say I'm well and truely back in love with my 2B. I did the turbo conversion over winter 2012/13 and by June I'd suffered a melted piston and needed a full rebuild. I drove the car for the rest of the year, but without any great confidence that everything was as it should be. A trip to France in September gave me a bit more faith in the car, but I still wasn't pushing things too hard. Into this year and I thought all was going well until the engine let go once more in March, melting another piston and requiring a whole new bottom end. At this point I was seriously considering calling it quits and dumping the Vauxhall turbo and fitting a Zetec, but I happened upon a nearly new bottom end which had covered only 5000 miles before being removed from a fire damaged Zafira. That coupled with reports from Ben Copeland of the excellent tuning skills and results gained by Dale at Bailey Performance on exactly the same set up as mine re-ignited my desire to get the turbo engine in and running properly. So the engine was rebuilt around the new bottom end and almost exactly one year to the day after melting it's first piston the car was on the rollers at Bailey Performance for Dale to do his thing. This weekend in Wales I've had the chance to really drive the car under all sorts of conditions and the job Dale has done is outstanding, drive sensibly and at cruising speed and the engine returns at least 35mpg, put your foot down and give it some stick and it accelerates hard and fast through second, harder and faster through third and into fourth and it honestly is a terrifying experience, so much so that Laura was almost physically sick from the effects of one good hard run through the gearbox. It's been a long and pretty expensive learning curve to get to this point and at times I really did start to have deep regrets and start to doubt my own ability to sort it out, but we got there in the end and I'm looking forward to more good time in the car.

I don't mind doing a write up, but you'll have to let me know what happened after the run round Elan Valley when we set off for home.

Great weekend, thanks to Mitch and Jen for organising it all. A good mix of old NW Wales weekend veterans and some new bloods. Great location and the mid Wales roads are fantastic although I couldn't fully enjoy them as when I unleashed peperami Laura went green and was nearly sick in the footwell! Soon be time for Scotland where we can do it all again.

great news Peter, so you'll be in the 2B in Wales this weekend then?

yep, car cleaned and hoovered, oil, water and tyres checked, just need to stick the bags on the back and fill her up with fuel tomorrow and we're ready to go. Looking forward to it.

I used these to supply mine link 4mm is plenty thick enough and polycarb will survive been blown off and landing in the middle of a French motorway at 80mph

there are definitely some inconsistencies in what you can do, I posted a for sale ad yesterday and couldn't edit it when items sold but have replied to another topic this evening and that gives me the option to edit. Must just be a glitch in the forum settings somewhere.

if the plug is sparking when you remove it there isn't a problem with sparks, is there fuel getting into the cylinder ie wet plugs or smell of fuel? Have you taken the float bowl off the carb on the dead cylinder and checked for fuel?