Jason

+1 for what the Scrapman says, never throw anything away until you're for the the replacement and fitted it! Reproduction stuff can be tricky to fit, of poor quality and just look odd next to original kit. You may also need the original as a reference.

The car looks well worth the effort - good luck! 

Spoke to him today, he's in fine form. I'll see him in a couple of weeks.

I'll be there as an exhibitor with WRX902H

Apologies for my tardy responses chaps, I managed to turn off notifications so didn't see your requests - sorted now and order restored 🙂 

22 hours ago, ferny said:

I just put "yes" in the box. It's simpler.

Silly boy. "Multicoloured" not available?

On 27/06/2021 at 18:19, DGF said:

Hi Jason 

can you change the car for our entry,164, to mk2 gt6. Blue 

Ta muchly

Done

On 04/05/2021 at 20:12, Ian Perry said:

Hi Jason, can you just change the colour of mine please (car 161) - no longer "white with rust" but now "blue"

 

Many thanks 🙂

 

Done

I think I've solved my immediate issue but I still need some contact details for these chaps if anyone knows them and can provide me with an email address and/or a mobile number, that would be great.

I'm tidying up the entry data and have noticed that there's an entry for you two gents in a Spitfire Mk2 that is sat waiting for payment but also, looks like you're got three crew! The main entrant is showing as Nigel Gair (who I am driving the event with and who doesn't own a Spitfire).

Anyway, something's gone screwy and your entry's got confused with Nigel's, as such I don't have any contact details for you guys so I'd appreciate it if you could get in touch - mainly because at the moment, this entry is unpaid and going to get cancelled.

1 hour ago, MarkB said:

Nice looking Vitesse. Like the de-trimmed look. I can see the bell housing, and mods to the bulkhead. Was that to try and stiffen it up or to create room to reposition the engine and box. Lots of mods, looks good.  

It was an exercise in stiffening up the body - I half expected the engine to have been moved back but it's still in the stock position.

24 minutes ago, Tim Bancroft said:

Not in the garage though eh! Its static!

Yes but you still won't see it 🤪

I've been at the fuel system today, removing the pump, filter and some rotted out pipework - apart from the rubber pipes the rest is in good order - pump runs, filter's not crusty - will test and/replace both but these will be good for mock up as I need to sort out placement and also some sort of adjustable pressure relief valve. Sod's law has operated and the stock of PTFE hose I have doesn't look like it's the same size as the stuff on the car - so I feel a study of the Goodridge catalogue coming on!

You won't, too fast for the naked eye 🙃

It's show days are over, you may see it parked on a driving event though 😁

On 19/05/2021 at 11:47, mpbarrett said:

Nice 'mean' looking car. 
BTW What made you go back to a  Vitesse?

I have had Stag, GT6, TR6, they have all come and gone but I have always kept my (now much modified) Herald! 

Mike

I realised that I really like a Vitesse - rarer than a TR yet less precious somehow - and although I missed my old yellow one (and I did have the option to buy it back) I wanted this one - it was the inspiration to PI the yellow one and well, it was different and needed resurrection. Seeing as almost all the cars buy need some resurrection or have been off the road for many years, it seemed like a good idea at the time 🙂

Yes, de-chromed or rather de-stainlessed or is that just stained? No matter, let's stick with 'mostly de-chromed. I quite like the look, it's what drew me to the car in the first place, before I knew about the many other modifications.

The bulkhead has been partially removed and the heater plenum slimmed down. It's all been replaced with a little 'birdcage' strengthener arrangement - still needs a heater but we have a plan (I say 'we' as I'm happy to work with the PO and take advantage of his research/knowledge/ideas).

At the rear, the spare wheel well is deepened to fit the full sized, wide spare in - I may yet go skinny space saver as the alloy fuel tank sits over the spare wheel well and so you can't actually get the spare in it. Rear valance is extended to mask the deepened spare wheel well. It's all very subtle and I keep finding little touches that I haven't noticed before. I've had it in the garage untouched for a few months as I promised Mrs C that I would sell the TR6 first - silly thing to do really!

UPDATE

Thanks for bearing with us during the transition, the new web site is a great improvement even though we have lost some of the customisations that made life a little easier, we are getting them back as Craig and his team work through stuff.

OK, so now we have a payment solution and I've written to those reservists who were unable to pay when the web site changed to ask for fees - thank you for all those who've  I've acknowledged each one - check your status in the entry list, it should have changed to "submitted", if it hasn't, read on . 

If your entry is showing as "Accepted - payment due" it means you still need to pay your fees - or some fees (i.e. if you've paid for 2 places but registered a three man crew or you've only paid for one place when the min entry is two!).

It's no big deal and no one is going to get their place cancelled, I am just manually updating things and so would like to get the fees sorted to keep my daily work load down so I don't miss things.

Is that what they call "hammer finished" 😉

@Adrian - the white roof is not to my taste, although it may grow on me, I especially wanted a black mohair roof - that's a decision for after the car is a runner and I've lived with it for a while I think (or the first time I'm rained on!)

@Dave - Once bitten.... so that's a NO! from me. There are quite a few of his components on the car but I couldn't take another ride on the emotional roller coaster again so I'll be messing this one up myself and spend the savings on beer. Besides, I though I might bring it up to you for fettling 🙂

.... about 7 years in fact!

It's been in store and off the road since 1996 so it needs some recommissioning and finishing off, there are some un-diagnosed engine issues (suspected defective cam / premature lobe wear) and the fuel system needs going through. It'll need a set of tyres and a hydraulic overhaul, some paint work on the bonnet and the hood has shrunk quite a lot. However, it was assembled really well using some excellent parts so I have to keep up the standard of the PO. Having now sold my TR6, I have the funds to spend, just need the time now!

2 hours ago, Ben Hutchings said:

Good, they’ll be less likely to call you up about silly little things they find wrong with it 😂

Fair point well made, he was a decent buyer, a little hard to read but didn't nit pick the car - it's a 50+ year old car for driving not a museum piece - so there's plenty 'wrong' with it, that's why it wasn't £30k 🙂 

Didn't stop me worrying about whether he got home safe!

My TR6 sold yesterday, I let the buyer haggle me down a little as to be honest, I felt my asking price was optimistic. 

It turned into a bit of an epic to get paid as he was hoping to use his Santander account but all Santander transactions were down yesterday, including cash points! We got there in the end but it was an epic.

It's gone to Cambridge to share a garage with a Rolls Royce and a Sinclair C5!

That's gotta be a rare export only part or were injection cars ever sold in the UK?

Remember, this is a lever to switch between clean fuel and the fuel with added crappy flakey bits of scale that settle in the bottom of the tank.

It's a very simple mechanism, if you take the pipe out of the tank it's just a curved pipe.

Leave it on 'main' and never got to 'reserve' unless you're confident your tank is clean 🙂

I must admit to buying some cheap stuff over the years but the stuff that's lasted the best is some late 60s stuff from my Dad! He worked for a company called Garringtons I think and the 1/2 drive sockets he gave me have been excellent.

I acquired a set of King Dick spanners in my early years, I think he may have bought them for me too, these have been excellent.

The tool I've really enjoyed using is the Eastwood sand blaster cabinet - cracking bit of kit that I was given for free, having languished for several years unassembled in a mates work place. He liberated it from the skip when they moved workshop and no one knew what it was. It's been great, let down only by a cheapo compressor that I need to fix - leaky emergency valve and dodgy cut off! That will part of the next phase of the garage revamp - plumbed in air and the compressor in a sound proof box.

One thing I've struggled with over the years is trolley jacks - the TR6 and Vitesse are both very low and need a low entry jack, the Halfords one I had for years gave up and started to leak so my wife bought me a Sealey one for a birthday present a few years ago and now that's started to fail - fluid seal failure I think,   leaving you with a jack that tops out too early after ever decreasing elevation. One day I'll find a decent one that's got a low snout and isn't too heavy.

The tools I like the most are the ones I've made myself to do specific jobs - like brass push pin (a sort of drift) for getting the circlips out of PI injectors. I struggles until I made this out of a throttle spindle.

Reminds me - I need to use this for your injectors Tim! I just need to find the ultrasonic cleaner to do a proper job.

I know it's a long way off and I know Europe generally hasn't yet made the vaccine progress the UK has but what are people's thoughts on travelling into Europe next year? I'm interested for the sake of the 10CR but also for other trips planned. My folks have a place in France that they were virtually living in but retreated back to the UK when restrictions came and have not been able to get back out there. I also had a route to follow some of the World Cup Rally route that I was planning with a few mates but that was canned for this year.

I'm in no hurry to go abroad until virus is under control, not particularly from a safety perspective just that the local authorities and services have enough to cope with without me galivanting all over their countryside for pure pleasure. Don't get me wrong, as soon as it's safe, legal and I can enjoy it, I'll be back up the mountains, mispronouncing foreign names, speaking pigeon German to try and buy a battery for a Triumph from a farm machinery repair shop or trying to repair an overdrive solenoid at 2am in a car park whilst some trucker negotiates with a lady for a service nearby - happy days!