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Quoted from heraldhabitat

, the one year I failed to complete was a borrowed John Kipping herald estate which drove magnificently but diff seal failure meant giving up in Birmingham on the southward journey.
Chris Allen

Courier with windows. It's still here, all be it in a disassembled state.

Sorry to hear about your news Chris.

Quoted from BiTurbo228

SC Parts one is 1.107kg

That confirms what I had been told by a GT6 owning customer of ours (his was a little heavier still).

Other housings avialable from other sources are generally 100-200 grams lighter.

Quoted from BiTurbo228

SC Parts one is 1.107kg

That confirms what I had been told by a GT6 owning customer of ours (his was a little heavier still).

Other housings avialable from other sources are generally 100-200 grams lighter.

Any chance of weighing it before you fit it?

There is a good reason for the question.

Any chance of weighing it before you fit it?

There is a good reason for the question.

Quoted from vitessesteve

I expect it would be OK but Canley Classics would know for sure, ask them.  David Pearson has several big saloons in his collection.

6 cylinder pump housing fits all 6 cylinder engines.

Quoted from vitessesteve

I expect it would be OK but Canley Classics would know for sure, ask them.  David Pearson has several big saloons in his collection.

6 cylinder pump housing fits all 6 cylinder engines.

Quoted from vitessesteve

Years ago I bought an alloy water pump housing for my Vitesse from Canley Classics.  It fitted well.  

I remember it arriving at work and on opening the parcel enjoying the smell of a newly machined parts - the machine oil took me back to my garage away from the office for a moment!

I expect they all come from the same source.  Bastuck?

No Steve! They are cast in Coventry, and machined in Nuneaton.

Quoted from vitessesteve

Years ago I bought an alloy water pump housing for my Vitesse from Canley Classics.  It fitted well.  

I remember it arriving at work and on opening the parcel enjoying the smell of a newly machined parts - the machine oil took me back to my garage away from the office for a moment!

I expect they all come from the same source.  Bastuck?

No Steve! They are cast in Coventry, and machined in Nuneaton.

We have been selling QH branded couplings for many years with zero negative feedback. They are very reasonably priced compared to what you have been quoted.

There are other branded couplings on the market which we have no direct experiance of, so won't comment on there quality.

Generally if you run an engine without coolant and it gets very hot the pistons 'grow' a little in the bores and start losing aluminium to the bore wall. This is usually evident by aluminium marks on the thrust side of the bore wall.

Martin

From that I would check that the pistons haven't picked up (they usually do under those circumstances).

Quoted from RobPearce

, unlike the GT6 one.

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They are being pressed now (I helped the chap more the press tools last week).

We sold out of the last run about 18 months ago (went mostly to trade customers).

Quoted from Rallyspit

Are you using the Marina van cwp, John? The 4.85 (Atlas van and early herald) was made of pastry and not to be advised.

Atlas is 6.66:1

Quoted from John Bonnett

So how many of the kits sold have actually driven and survived the mileage Chris has done?

Its been on sale for small chassis Triumph's for getting on for 15 years.

Its fitted as standard to all the latest generation Caterhams (approx 15 years).

There is an aftermarket for Caterhams for replacement hubs, but only because they damage them regularly in their one make race series. The same reason sales of steering arms, track rod ends, etc go up over the race season.

We have never sold a Triumph owner a replacement hub.

Stock GT6/Vitesse hubs are prone to spinning the inner bearing race.

This was a well known issue in the trade. We sold out of useable s/h hubs many years ago. Anything up to 50% of our core units were scrap at the time as a result of having worn inner race dimensions.

Scroll on a few years and things were getting critical on the availabilty front with customers cars off the road needing hubs. We had cars in our workshops for weeks whilst we tried to track down good s/h hubs back in the 90's.

Back when this used to be a common conversion we would simply use 4 of these and some Loctite;

http://www.canleyclassics.com/demoapp/?ptno=60070

Quoted from Jonny-Jimbo

Still, might have a look at doing 4 pot ones.

Really? On a three bearing crank?

Triumph added weight to the steel pulley on the race engines.

Not sure where you are looking Richard, but we have those;

http://www.canleyclassics.com/demoapp/?ptno=128136

GT6R, and ERW412C (sometime ADU 2B) had Chapman Strut rear end.

Fabrizios GT6R replica (car in your pictures) ended up with Peter Cox reversed bottom wishbone rotoflex, because that's what we had available, and supplied when he was building his car.

However Coxy used sliding joint driveshafts, and Fabrizio uses rubber rotoflex's.

No we do not (and never have) used Chesman's.

Our factory V8 saloon's LT77 had those issues. It got much worse when we used it on the RBRR a few years ago.

When I stripped it after the event I found the remote mounting/insulating rubber bushes were badly worn. A new set improved the change no end.

The length of the vertical portion of the pipe from the flange to the first bend differs considerably.

....and the flange gasket is different

We have been selling/using County pistons for getting on for 20 years.

Never once had any issue's other than we get the odd set with a bit of transport damage, but we check each piston individually before selling them on.

Worth checking as soon as you receive them if ordering from elsewhere.

We stopped doing them a couple of years ago when the market got flooded with them.

Can't complain we had a good run back in the old days with them before most of the other traders even knew about them.

To be honest demand had seriously tailed off long before that anyway.

These days the tables have turned and its all about originality, and matching numbers such like.