Roger Keys

Im up for this. Would have liked to do it last yea, but a lack of a working was a problem!

Need to give up for now. The "entry list" button is now awol from the website. Stuck at services on M6. Time to go home

Is that a serious question? Of course it is!!

Im convinced about the spoiler. Having just done the 10CR, we had a few stints of 90mph plus sustained running and a short one at 100mph. Gauge never moved at all. Before the spoiler it would rise a bit and drop almost immediately after coming off the power.

I think that statement says all you need to know about where the majority want to be with this event. OK, that may take on it, but its pretty telling. That said, ive only done the last 2 so have a lot les experience than others of these events. But, fundamentally, the good roads are further south and east in europe. Getting there is dull. One french motorway is much the same as the next. For me more time on the fun roads is what i really want. But ideally not a non stop 15 hours a day. So count me in for stretching the number of days

Im with Clive on this. The "easy" solution would seem to be start the trip further south into europe.

Simple answer, yes!

Still working fine without the mechanical fan What improved it as ive posted before was fitting a spoiler, an exercise ive just repeated on "new stag" with the exact same results.

An interesting theroy. I too have my other stag, not baffled did not suffer at all on the last 10CR. This stag, this time, did. Down to less than 7psi at the top of Stelvio. OK, i wasn't kind to it, but then i wasn't last time either. I baffled it only because under heavy braking all oil pressure was lost. Ive posted elsewhere on the forum about this. As im pulling off the cross member soon anyway, i may drop the sump and put some holes in the top face of my baffling arrangement.

What is your logic behind "over baffling" causing high oil temps? I had high oil temps too.

Sure did Though sadly, the stag has sprung a coolant leak from the edge of the head gasket 😲 And im away most of the next week................................

Gates Barricade. You wouldn't be able to get fuel hose from a main dealer, at least not by the meter. They would just ask what hose on what car with what VIN and order accordingly.

If you get stuck, i might be able to do it Sunday. Got shims as well! Just done the stag.

You sorted for wheel alignment Tim?

I get barricade  direct from the importer. Its significantly more than that. But that said, mines the injection stuff.

The other stuff is probably R6. It will smell, the vapours pass through it. Everyone sells it, yet its useless with modern fuels! Even gates R6 is going to be pretty useless. Its not what its for. They eve quote the permeability rates.

I suspect you can buy a real version of it. But anyone can get cheap R6 and print whatever they like on it. Doesn't make it any good. But ive used it, and without exception, the same thing happened. Its is was R9 it would be fine. R9 is (was) the spec that fuel hoses on new cars need to meet. They dont break up like this. Gates do some really good bulletins explaining the various hose specs. Google is your friend!

As i said in the 10 countries run, your hose is fake. Been there got the T shirt. Gates barricade everytime. Ok, thats the injection version, so overkill, but it works. Doesn't degrade like yours.  I used the same company as you orginally at work. Same result. Its fake.

Thats the fake stuff.

Possible. But i cant find any evidence there was a change. And my other one, which doesn't suffer had nothing in the sump either. The reason they are different in behaviour is a bit of a mystery, but on the upside its fixed now Which is good as in a month it will be on some italian pass!

Yes and no! Only for the run. AFTER ive painted the centres black as per Daves suggestion. But only because they have really good tyres on them, the stag alloys have got some cheapo ditchfinders , not ideal up an Italian mountain pass. Plus, being Stag wheels, they are not entirely round. There is a long term plan on wheels, but not really affordable at he moment!

The dipstick angle theroy might be good. Whos to say there was any level of accuracy on this.? Anyway, sump removed, baffles installed, pickup tube replace as a precution (sucking in air?) , rod and main bearings replaced (just as well as some down to copper) and reassembled. Ive run it, but not road tested it yet. (many other parts missing) While i was there i couldn't help myself and had to wash off all the underseal etc around that area. Im pleased with what was underneath. All very original.

Clearly a good idea. But what im experincing is not normal. This is just having to stop quickly as one ofte does when sharing the roads with muppets.

Ive got an oil pressure gauge connected at the moment, on the problematic one. And the other has always had one. It literally drops to zero if the braking is from a reasonable speed.

Thanks for the info What leaves me unsure however, is that my other stag doesn't do it at all - no matter how hard i brake. So something is different between the 2 of them. Looks like im going to have to have the sump off to investigate