Recent content by iain.oglethorpe

As per title , I hope you are all having a Great Xmas and here's to more car meets than years past.

Hows it going Nik, is the old girl alive yet?.

Knowing the 33 its may be a bad earth, I would try a completely new earth from the battery to the engine and check the distributor is earthed through to the battery. Im sure you'll get there mate and yes Retro at Good wood looks great.

You have gone a bit quite Nick hope your okay and the 33 is ready for Auto italia?.

Fixed yet?.:sad1:

What was the issue with the non starting the other month?, fuel pump or weak spark?.

Anyone had experience in fitting a remote oil filter housing?. I have removed the bulky 5 liter washer bottle and re-routed the tubing and wiring to the rear windscreen bottle to free up some space under the bonnet, I already have a mocal oil cooler and sandwich plate fitted from the existing...

Haha, I sometimes drive around Chi visiting my brother who lives there so may add insult to injury:luvit:

Weekend before last. This was the 1st time I had run the car for over 40 miles since August 2015.

Cheers for the nice comments guys, and yes having a rollcage certainly helped keeping the car straight whilst cutting the tin worm out, going to create some rear bumper mounts next and strengthen the boot floor as I removed the wheel well several years ago and welded in a flat bed, have ordered...

Update, got a new ticket on the old girl after extensive cutting out badly welded patches from previous garages then rebuilding new inner sills and welding of the floor inner sills and outer sills including re-painting the sill covers.

Well so far so good, found a couple of issues when re-building the carbs and also tuning them back in once I re-fitted them. Issue number 1 was that ether sides float needles were different sizes Issue 2 was the float levels in one set was a little low. Issue 3 when the car was hitting the...

Ypu too Darryl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwQDJxxI_ok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gxr-m5vGqE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy-rCwvM5as Here's my 3 runs, run 2 and 3 with a misfire after turn 2. Vid 3 shows Daryl's 164 leaving the start line.

I am coming from Hants A34 to M4 through to Swindon area and cross country from there won't be using the M5 I dont think..