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  1. Nick Jones
    Compare the price of the solid part to the cost of having a rusty one professionally repaired….. or even repair panels and your own time at a modest hourly rate…… Nick
  2. Nick Jones
    Potentially have an OD gearbox and all the ancillary parts going spare following my MX5 gearbox conversion. The gearbox itself was rebuilt using a large tip mainshaft with machining done to the input shaft to match. It worked fine and was reasonably quiet. The overdrive however is very slow to engage and sometimes sticks in after a few miles at speed, so needs further attention. Nick
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    Great opportunity 🙂 Just got Senior Management interested down here in Somerset/Dorset. She’s on a mission to win the beginners class now! Nick
  4. Nick Jones
    Bearings bearings bearings. You need to drop the sump and have a look. As you can hear noises when the pressure is low, there will be damage beyond plain west, but do it now and you just might get away with new shells only. Big ends are easy enough to access, as are the centre and rear mains. The front is a bit awkward as the bridge piece has to come out to give access. I have been known to leave the front ones alone and just renew the others. The front main is generally the least worn and the bottom half of the centre main the worst….. as it takes the most thump. Obviously check out the oil pump again while you are in there. Nick
  5. Nick Jones
    Yeah….. new doesn’t always mean fit for purpose though. Did it improve matters at the time? Nick
  6. Nick Jones
    Sounds like you’ve got some sad bearings. 1500s like to “do” bearings, especially if held at reasonably high rpm for long periods. What diff ratio in you Herald and do you have overdrive? Mains tend to drop the most pressure and big ends make the most noise. Did you look at them while you were in there? Also, new oil pump doesn’t always mean good oil pump. You must measure them before fitting. Some are worse than the one being replaced! Nick
  7. Nick Jones
    ^^^ What he said! Very classy. Nick
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  9. Nick Jones
    Come on man...... action! Your public demands action! 😛 (You need to get it sorted while there's still fuel in the pumps!) Nick
  10. Nick Jones
    Sounds good. Interested. Nick
  11. Nick Jones
    Possibly that engine being transferred to the GT6 and the not-quite-well GT6 engine growing another 500ccs and ending up in the Vitesse (back in the Vitesse in fact as that’s where is been for most of the last 35 years). As this scheme would involve EFI for the GT6 and all that entails…. I may just lie down until the feeling goes away……
  12. Nick Jones
    It’s not finished, but it runs….. No, the bonnet doesn’t (quite) shut. The ram pipes will be shortened and put in a box. Sounds fruity…. Nick
  13. Nick Jones
    Well done! Still some fettling to do but huge progress made 🙂 Nick
  14. Nick Jones
    Lots…… 98% hit the floor without troubling the wood….. even though the area of the holes is slightly less….
  15. Nick Jones
    On the Vitesse, initially at least, depending on what engine ends up where……
  16. Nick Jones
    Yeah…. But Newman in UK, which has taken itself out of Europe for the purposes of improving trade….. or so we were told……. Unfortunately the result is rather different and gets worse still from the 1st Jan when the next round of “improvements” kick-in
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    Reckon the Chinese have a much more pragmatic and forward-looking approach to green technology compared to the west. Pretty much all the worlds solar panels come from China….. Plus a major reason for their huge emissions is the west effectively offshoring manufacturing. As for the inevitability of climate change…… if you live less than 10m above sea level https://phys.org/news/2021-12-antarctica-doomsday-glacier-collapse-trigger.amp Nick
  18. Nick Jones
    Nice looking car. Polished up well. Gunmetal cars do seem to last better (lots of lead in the paint?). Not seen one with a vinyl roof before - aftermarket presumably? They are nice. But quirky. There are a lot of oddities stemming from that FWD power train. Worst being the desperately low gearing. I always wanted to power-train swap mine for something more modern, but the engine bay shape was (and is) really unhelpful. This was back in ‘89 ish and the main contender was the lump from a Charade GTTi - they just cost way too much. Probably more options about today. They are fine for local pottering about, not so much on the open road. Nick
  19. Nick Jones
    Apply 12v and tap on a hard surface. That usually unsticks them. Nick
  20. Nick Jones
    I think the factory concoction will be fine for torque - or do you mean a twin progressive TB like VW used on the K-Jet Golf and Audi 80/90s? Nick
  21. Nick Jones
    Progress! All the fiddling around with waterways is a ball-ache though. Nick
  22. Nick Jones
    Would struggle to buy steel (Bundy) in the UK. I use Kunifer for first choice but wouldn’t worry about copper either if properly clipped. Not perhaps an option for you in NZ for legal reasons? Or is that OZ….? Filter has the potential to cause losses, but maybe essential to prevent other issues. Should be ok so long as it’s big enough. Can become an issue over time as it does its job and gets clogged. Useful to have one with a clear housing so you can keep an eye on what’s happening inside it. On my FI setups I have a relatively coarse strainer before the pump and a proper fine high pressure filter afterwards. Different needs though. Nick
  23. Nick Jones
    Liquid, even thin liquid, travelling through pipes experience friction with the walls of the pipe and internal friction from turbulence within the fluid. This is proportional to the velocity of the fluid travelling through the pipe. This “suction loss” means the pump has to suck harder which lowers the pressure at the pump inlet valve in particular. Therefore using a larger pipe reduces the losses and means the system can move fuel without lowering the pressure in the suction line so much. This matters, as one of the factors (along with temperature and turbulence) that causes fuel to boil (vapourise) is low pressure. Every little helps. And yes, the bigger pipe does fit in the same metal clips. Nick
  24. Nick Jones
    All else being equal, I’d suggest 5/16” or 8mm pipe wherever possible on the suction side of the pump (ie. between tank and pump) to minimise suction losses. Every little helps stave off vapourisation. Nick
  25. Nick Jones
    Early (coarse, square spline) or late (fine spline)? Nick
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