..........WE ARE NOT MEETING AT THE CARPENTERS TAVERN - SEE BELOW FOR DETAILS..................
So as I'm unable to get to the club nights......
Alan, what is the latest on the 306 ? New Diff In ? If so what's it like. Car ready for the Wyedean ?
Diff in and running OK so far. MOT was last Thursday (6 mile round trip) and has done no miles since so I have to run the engine in this weekend.
Otherwise just about ready to go.
Excellent ready a whole weekend before...
Err no....!
I have to do 200-300 miles in it to run it in this weekend.
I have a dry sump oil change to do.
I still have to do the rear tracking.
The carbs need balancing.
The ECU needs changing to reduce the maximum rpm to save the engine on the first event (probably 750 rpm) and to chek the zero pint on the TPS.
The front and rear guards need fitting.
I have some tyre swops to get done (Yokohama are not going to be at events this year)
It never ends!!!!!
Now we know why you won't be at Brean!
Hope it all goes well for you over the weekend, you sure have plenty to keep you busy!
That's more like it !!!
Back in December I thought we had plenty of time to do the few bits to ready the Rally car.... plan on first event mid March and we might get out earlier if ready, now here we are with 6 weeks and haven't really started... plus being away I get about 3 hours a weekend after I have done the other things I want to with Sarh & Alex!!
(Do you think 16 months is too young to teach a boy to weld ????)
I haven't got much on the To-Do...... Weld in Sill support/jacking points, Good Service, mountings for quick lift jack, good clean, spray up sills & new bonnet, change starter motor.... and sort out racking in Disco for Toolbox, spares etc.....
The engine is run in OK but bad news on the diff I'm afraid. The usual "clanging" noise that LSD do when doing low speed turns was very excessive and very jerky so much so that I decided not to risk it on the Wyedean. Added to that there was a big vibration about 60mph which I think may be prop related so it was not going to get solved by next weekend. So the BMW diff is back in. Shame but better not to risk all the new bits.
Sorry to hear that, I assume being a lower ratio it will be a little noisier ? but agreed you don't want to risk anything unnecessarily
I wouldn't say it was any noisier generally (different yes) just to much clanging and banging on low speed corners and even some bends in the road.
When I got the car home I jacked the right hand rear side, put some bricks in front of the other 3 tyres and turned the rear wheel against the LSD by a socket and long lever on the centre and it was really jerky. It was smooth when I built it on the bench. I am guessing that something isn't right in there.
The vibration finished any chance of running it anyway.
50mph at 4000rpm in 5th - it is not going to be quiet is it?
no !
The 306 came really close to not starting to the Wyedean as it should really have failed scrutineering.
I did point out very politely that none of this had been mentoned when he previously scrutineered the car but no comment was returned.
I can't argue the noise test or the perspex but I am a bit pissed off that I was sold it in the first place but as it was about 10 years ago there is nothing I can do about it. As for the bonnet, what about all these other cars that have the back of the bonnet raised at the back specifically to let some of the heat out?
Anyway as my next event looks like being the Bulldog and the same scrutineer will be there as at the Wyedean then I have to just get it all sorted.
Sorry to reply to by own post but I have just been scouring the Blue Book (on the PC of course) and all I can find that is vaguely relevant to the gap at the bacl ofg my bonnet is at C(b)8(c)
With the exception of cars of Periods A to D, which in period specification were not equipped with a bonnet or casing of metal or solid flame resistant material covering and surrounding the main engine structure, have a protective bulkhead of nonflameable material between the engine and the driver/passenger compartment capable of preventing the passage of fluid or flame. Gaps must be sealed with GRP or with putty that completely closes any gap at all times.
If anyone else can find anthing then please let me know otherwise I will contact said scrutineer and ask him (politely again) where in the Blue Book it says it has to be sealed.
We had a different scrutineer who told us we couldn't have a towing eye which wasn't permanently mounted to the car, whereas the BB specifically says it can be carried in the car.
I think they hibernate over winter and come out to the early rallies full of b***sh*t.
---The-Fat-Albert Stages---28 October 2012...........