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  1. yogi
    That's okay then, I'll stop worrying. Cheers.
  2. yogi
    It's gone a bit quiet on here lately hasn't it? Any more details yet? Is the start at a pub? Can we pre-book food like last year or just make our own arrangements at the start like previous years? I know it's still six weeks away but that'll go pretty quickly. TR7Nutter wrote:Latest entry list - will be e-mailing out some more details later in the week. Has this happened yet? If it has then I may have written down the wrong email address on the form as I haven't received mine yet.
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    I did once do all the driving on the event itself but with my co driver doing a lot of the driving to and from the event. There is an hours break between the two halves and the adrenalin keeps you going. But if your navigator doesn't drive at all you will be shattered at the end. After a good breakfast and a bit of a sit down you won't wasn't to move again. You could have a sleep in the car after breakfast but a proper co driver would be preferable.
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    Mine was posted this morning.
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    Well I got my magazine this morning complete with HCR entry form but there's not even the slightest clue as to the start point! All we know (it being subtitled 'oh I do like to be beside the seaside) is that some coastal area will be involved. Anyone out there know what they might be planning?
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    It's funny how every thread, whatever the subject always ends up about Lambrini.
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    MWG445 wrote: Lambrini ain't cheap! ;) Jim. Oh yes it is!
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    4576 wrote:then again I'm wrong as I've just noticed the roadsign :B :-/ :X It is definitely the northbound layby, I can assure you that. We only did it in one direction, we came back down the west coast just like the real RBRR. Did the same route from Fort William back to England apart from stopping off at Morrisons in Stirling to demand a pie. Thought that might not go down too well.
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    After 20 years of RBRR's (not all of them I must admit), I've finally done the A68 in daylight! We've just had a week in Scotland and I couldn't resist going this way. Probably added a good hour to the journey, it' a lot busier during the day but I felt it had to be done. I decided to go and spend a few days driving around Scotland and actually stopping off to look around rather than just flying straight up to John O'Groats and back again like we usually do. Anyway this is the scene of the Lambrini incedent, we couldn't really see any of it at the time. And that's our little Skoda which is 15 years old itself now, hasn't quite got classic status yet but I've had newer Dolomites that did at that age so I think it's getting there.
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    1300 fwd pulley

    yogi replied to bond68's topic in Engine

    That_Man wrote: Ah! I'd assumed it was a MKIV large bearing engine, maybe that's why the crank broke ? I'll have to revisit his web site if it's still up, as i'm planning to do something similar myself at some point  ;) What, you mean supercharge a 1300? I hope you have a lot of spare gearboxes! Or do you have any plans to improve the box, though I can't think what. I really must pay you a visit sometime, I think I would find it very interesting :).
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    1300 fwd pulley

    yogi replied to bond68's topic in Engine

    Hi Nick, yes you're right the early cars had a parallel one but apparently they had trouble with them coming loose so changed to the tapered design which as you say can be a right pig to get off.
  12. yogi
    That seems a very good price too. If I was still using that manifold I'd have that.
  13. yogi
    Do you mean 1500 FWD? In which case, no they're not the same as any other Triumph. The 1500 one is bigger diameter than the 1300 though they have the same spline pettern in the middle which is different to RWD cars.
  14. yogi
    I have Sprint wheels on my 1300 and have them at 30 and it feels fine. A little harsh perhaps, though I think that's more to do with the springs, but it's certainly not unstable. But as Gordon says, just lower it by a couple of psi and see how it feels. Might make the steering heavier though.
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    ajp wrote:Yogi I followed you on the A68 and can confirm your 1300 was doing fine until it got to a hill! where it would slow just enough to cause me to change down - I really needed OD  on 2nd to stay behind you in the power band on one of the hills! I must have looked like a demented yo-yo behind you!   Yes we were looking like a yo-yo too but for the opposite reasons. Following a TR6 up the northern end of the A9 they really weren't trying on the corners (no reason why they should if they don't want to of course) yet whenever we got to a hill (and there were plenty of them) they left me standing. Once we got to the top it'd take a couple of minutes to catch them up, then another hill would come along! took me ages to find a straightish downhill section to get get past them. Then we stopped for petrol in Wick and they trundled past just as we were leaving but that last stretch to JoG is nice and straight, so no problems there.
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    MarkDeTriomphe wrote: Think we were one of the 'big boys' behind you on that last stretch down to LE - and can confirm that you don't hang about on the bends (unless it was the other 1300).  Unfortunately, had to let you go after a bit of heavy braking made a sound like part of the car had been ripped off - which of course it had   :-/ Yes, Tim was driving that bit and though he's a Londoner his mum has a place down there so he knows the roads rather well and was using that to his advantage! I was in the back trying to get some sleep which was fine on the A30 but I had no chance after Penzance. Nice to see someone appreciate my car though (both those driving and those following!), makes all the hard work worthwhile.
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    We had no problem keeping up at all. We arrived at many of the stops before earliest arrival time and were in the first ten cars to arrive at Lands End. Slipped down a bit Sunday afternoon as were socialising at Bude and Sixpenny Handley, but we had no problem keeping up. And we don't have the option of overdrive on the FWD's either but if anything the 1300 engine is happier at higher revs. It won't go up hills like the bigger engined cars but we make up for that on the bends where I like to think that very few cars can keep up. I know my car's not exactly standard but the other 1300 wasn't that far behind us all the way round. But there does certainly seem to be  a shift towards the bigger cars. I shall just have to continue to show what can be done with a nice little 1300!
  18. yogi
    I thought Sixpenny Handley worked well too. I know it was busy but it was well marshalled and the constant movement of cars in and out gave it a great atmosphere. I loved it. As others have said Didcot is not well placed at all. It's not a good route from Salisbury to Didcot and as mentioned elsewhere there is no sensible route from there to the Plough. It just seems to be a lot of messing about when everyone's been up for two days and just wants to get back to the finish. Many years ago we had a stop in the Basingstoke area which seemed much better placed, though I realise that venue is probably no longer available. I don't think it would be too much to go straight from Sixpenny Handley (or somewhere else in the Dorset area) straight back to The Plough. It can't be much more than 100 miles and some of the other sections are considerably longer.
  19. yogi
    Last time we used the B4009 to cut across to the A41. That worked fine although bits of it through some of the towns had traffic calming (bumps and bits where you have to give way to oncoming traffic) so may not be suitable for a hundred cars, though I'm sure we'll be fairly spread out by then. The A41 itself was fine too.
  20. yogi
    Yes that's ok Tim, I realise it's too late to change anything now, I was just thinking out loud really. We shall have to see how we are doing by the time we get to Honiton and we might go that way anyway, it would certainly wake up whoever's driving at that point. Yes I'll see you at the drivers meeting, cheers.
  21. yogi
    Hello Tim, well I look forward to seeing the route. I assume then that we'll be sent the same way as last time up the A354 from where we'll have to go down the B3081 to Sixpenny Handley then double back on ourselves to return to the A354. But from Honiton it looks about the same distance to stay on the A30 all the way to Shaftesbury then up the B3081 and Zig Zag Hill. The only major town on the route is Yeovil which I don't think is usually too bad for traffic. Can't be any worse than Bridport/Dorchester. Mind you the last time I did that particular stretch of the A30 my clutch disintergrated.
  22. yogi
    Just thought I'd bump this up again. I meant to say something when the last magazine arrived but forgot. Surprised nobdy else mentioned it but according to the mag there is a control stop at Sixpenny Handley Village Hall so Zig Zag Hill is very much still on by the look of things.
  23. yogi
    Excellent. I know that road very well. The rest of the B3081 is very enjoyable too. We could take it as far as the A354 and pick up the same route as last time towards Salisbury. My friend keeps his buses at the bottom of Zigzag Hill, I'd have to pop in and say hello.
  24. yogi
    Excellent. I know that road very well. The rest of the B3081 is very enjoyable too. We could take it as far as the A354 and pick up the same route as last time towards Salisbury. My friend keeps his buses at the bottom of Zigzag Hill, I'd have to pop in and say hello.
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