TimW Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 Hi Great job in managing to get lots of the old threads back on here. I'm looking for my GT6 EFI build thread but struggling to find it. It would have probably been in 2011 ot early 2012 Any help would be appreciated Tim W Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve AKA vitessesteve Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 is this it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve AKA vitessesteve Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 The search function on this site is pretty good. Have you played with the options. For example you can focus on your own posts. + specify a date etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimW Posted July 25, 2021 Author Share Posted July 25, 2021 33 minutes ago, vitessesteve said: is this it Hi Steve Unfortunately not That was a mk2 press car I purchased but ultimately had to sell on due to a multitude of issues personally. The thread I'm looking for is the one detailing the EFi build I did to my mk3. I still have the mk3 and I've made some improvements to the EFI since its build. I did manage to find it on out recently closed website and posted an update about a year ago but unfortunately that thread had all the pictures missing. I don't have any record of the build other than the thread so would like to see it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Hutchings Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 Ok I’ll take a look in the morning. I have 112 build threads sat in a holding area 😅 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimW Posted July 25, 2021 Author Share Posted July 25, 2021 Great stuff!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferny Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 7 hours ago, Ben Hutchings said: Ok I’ll take a look in the morning. I have 112 build threads sat in a holding area 😅 Can you not just move them straight away and get them to do a lateral flow test every fifth Wednesday after Pentecost? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Hutchings Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 22 hours ago, TimW said: ...but unfortunately that thread had all the pictures missing @TimW now I've re-read your last message more closely, yes this is a problem and I'm sorry to say I don't think there's a solution. I can only import what's on the latest iteration of the old site, and some threads just have nothing where images should be - as you found. It's not like there's even embed code so they must have been originally added as 'attachments' and then when the forum was migrated from 2 versions ago to 1 version ago, images weren't brought across or somehow got nuked. I will have a REALLY good look, and search through a dump of images that I have as well. Is the Mk3 rebuild in question the MadSprout? If not I need some way to recognise it from images alone so can you please tell the colour and reg? Cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Hutchings Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 @TimW 😔 Ok I found the thread. It had some corruption in one of the posts that had made the whole thing fail upon import. I've corrected that, but sadly there are no images at all besides 3rd-party things that others have linked to. I've imported it anyway and placed it in Projects as there may be some value to the text content: https://www.clubtriumph.co.uk/forums/topic/9170-efi-gt6/ Please excuse the 'quote' formatting (or lack of), and some links to YouTube vids aren't actually 'links'. It's a massive thread so I've not been able to manually fix all that. Not given up looking for the images yet, but loosing hope. 2011 in web terms is ancient history! There an imageless copy on the Wayback Machine which doesn't help you much, but interesting to the old-old-forum again: https://web.archive.org/web/20171022080133/http://www.club.triumph.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum10/Blah.pl?m-1321968625/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimW Posted July 26, 2021 Author Share Posted July 26, 2021 On 25/07/2021 at 10:48, vitessesteve said: The search function on this site is pretty good. Have you played with the options. For example you can focus on your own posts. + specify a date etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimW Posted July 26, 2021 Author Share Posted July 26, 2021 Hi Steve Yes and I've started from the last page on the engine section and worked back. Ben has been in touch saying he's got several more "build" threads currently sitting in a dormant folder waiting to be uploaded so he's going to check if mine is one of them. It was on the recently closed site but I could only find it with a Google search and it had lost all the pics so fingers crossed Ben will have some luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Hutchings Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 36 minutes ago, TimW said: fingers crossed Ben will have some luck Hi @TimW I think somehow you missed my two replies earlier in this thread regarding the found EFI GT6 thread, and lack of images. If you can't see anything let me know 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Jones Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 Problem is that the forum has actually been migrated twice since that thread was created and the first time was from the eblah platform, which makes things harder, especially regarding pics. I know Craig T had many challenges migrating the old Sideways forum from eblah, and that was just one hop. Photos were separated then too, though some have been reassembled since and I think the ability to do others remains if requested. Thought you had a thread on Sideways too Tim, but it turns out the one I was remembering was Gareth’s…… did find your fuel tank one though. I could use one of them now! Nick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimW Posted July 27, 2021 Author Share Posted July 27, 2021 Thanks Ben It's such a shame the pics have been lost. My car is mallard blue and the reg BWP793M if its of any help. Thanks for at least managing to find it. Brings back some great memories Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Hutchings Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 We’re 100% sure now that any images from the pre-2013 website - that hadn’t already been imported to the previous version by Keith - aren’t in any backups we have so can’t be imported now. There’s a very small chance that a backup will be found with them in, and people are looking. I’m sorry about this @TimW and others who’ve lost content. Trying to find a silver-lining… this shouldn’t be a problem in the future, as the site uses a better supported and straightforward storage method now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beans Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 Any chance that the (blog) threads of my two other cars can be retrieved from the archives? I have tried to find the, but can only find the one on the DHC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimW Posted July 27, 2021 Author Share Posted July 27, 2021 1 hour ago, Ben Hutchings said: We’re 100% sure now that any images from the pre-2013 website - that hadn’t already been imported to the previous version by Keith - aren’t in any backups we have so can’t be imported now. There’s a very small chance that a backup will be found with them in, and people are looking. I’m sorry about this @TimW and others who’ve lost content. Trying to find a silver-lining… this shouldn’t be a problem in the future, as the site uses a better supported and straightforward storage method now. It is what it is Ben..not a lot that can be done about it if they aren't there... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Hutchings Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 1 hour ago, Beans said: Any chance @Beans yes very likely. Can you help me locate with some detail? Is one of them t’Kreng? What’s the other? DM me if you want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Hutchings Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 @beans Ok here's one! - Sadly lots of the images were on PhotoBucket, but most of the stuff you or others actually uploaded to the previous forum have been imported. I'll look for the other one in the morning 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Hutchings Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 And here's the Kreng's thread: You were super lucky here Theo, the images seem to be there as far back as 2006. I can only assume that each time it was migrated to a new platform you asked Keith to move images too 😅 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beans Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 Thanks! When Photobucket changed their policy I decided to change to Google photo's. As a result most pictures were linked from there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve AKA vitessesteve Posted August 1, 2021 Share Posted August 1, 2021 When photobucket changed I remember saving some images to our site. Not just some of mine but for others (using my admin or moderator power). Can not remember the details now but think the site had it own gallery behind the scenes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteStupps Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 Hello webmaster folk, On the old forum there was a long-lived thread called "Triumph Spitfire/GT6 weight list", which was often cited in other places and something I referred to fairly regularly. I can't find it via the search function. Could be copied over please? I had intended to scribble down all the info into a spreadsheet, but of course never did. I've got the last known web address for it in my bookmarks if that's any use. Ta, Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Hutchings Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 1 hour ago, PeteStupps said: Could be copied over please? Ok sure @PeteStupps, done: https://www.clubtriumph.co.uk/forums/topic/12866-triumph-spitfiregt6-weight-list That IS a really interesting and useful thread that I'd not seen before, thanks for requesting it 👍 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteStupps Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 Top man! What a service, where's your TripAdvisor page? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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