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droopsnoot — Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:43 am

Author: droopsnoot

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:43 am

BrianDamaged wrote:

HBpete wrote:

Love that R17, whats in the matt black Viva?? The chap with the white/black HB SL90 gave me a gearbox for free, what a nice chap!

Peter

That's Black8Driver off Retro-Rides, AFAIK it's turbo 4cyl Vauxhall? Could be wrong though, it sounds evil for a four-pot.

I think it's something like that, a modern VX engine - it's been in a few magazines, either Retro Cars or Practical Performance Car or possibly both.

Dilemma, help!

VYO 372M — Wed Aug 20, 2008 7:25 am

Author: VYO 372M

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 7:25 am

Treat yourself John, the Imp sounds a cracker and as you've always wanted one, you may kick yourself for not taking the plunge.

Steve

Your mates cars from way back when?

zephyr6boy — Wed Aug 20, 2008 7:21 am

Author: zephyr6boy

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 7:21 am

I had P reg Ford Capri GL
Steven- Hillman Imp, Nelly - Fiat 130, Girl at school Fiat X19, Adam - R reg Granda 2.0GL, most had mopeds or motor bikes

Thursday August 6th

zephyr6boy — Wed Aug 20, 2008 7:17 am

Author: zephyr6boy

Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 7:17 am

i miss you reading your daily blog whilst eating my breakfast.

MKIII Cortina

GJR 11L — Tue Aug 19, 2008 11:32 pm

Author: GJR 11L

Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 11:32 pm

I've not seen an elephant, but I have no doubt that they exist!

Timeline, showing use of V4 in Corsair and Cortina 3, up until the point when the (Pinto) came along:

Genset resto Pt 1: dismantling (pic heavy!)

adibrook — Tue Aug 19, 2008 11:28 pm

Author: adibrook

Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 11:28 pm

Ok...so i got this anciant generator. here it is in its happy generatorness.

Cost �5, in unrunning condition. I got it home and after cleanign gunk out of the fuel lines, changing oil, and replacing diodes in the generator, it was running and powering my stick welder!

Anyway....decided that it should be stripped because it was burning oil. So here it is on the bench of doom. The bench of doom was covered in an assortment of little parts from other projects...and after fishing all the tools out of it, i decided that i should just cover all the assorted small parts with an old sheet...rather than pick them all up and sort them.

After that, the engine and generator combo was taken off the frame, and i attempted to seperate them.

After alot of swearing, and vein attempts to get the crank shaft to seperate from the generator...i ended up popping the generator end bearing instead...so i was left with this: the engine with the generators rotor stuck to it.

Getting this off the crank shaft took a day and broke about 6 spanners. But...eventually...this morning....it came off:

I welded the frame up where it split

Engine all stripped down. Notice the rather agricultural, and not very effective muffler. I think it was a later addition, since its held on with a hose clip!

dodgy repair no1: i dont know why...but someone ground the lube splasher off the end of the con rod. Its supposed to have this spike stickign out of the bottom to splash oil about the crank case. But someone crudely ground it off. Why...beats me. Maybe it snapped off. But...they wernt stupid. They knew it was a splash lubed engine, so they added a splasher, made out of sheet steel, held on with one of the big end's bolts.

Then we get this...the biggest dodgy repair. thats chemical metal!

And from the inside...you can see thers an aluminium plate, but also part of the bore has been built up with chemical metal!

Ignition seems to be all ok

and...everythgin i removed...soaking in a mix of kerosene, 2stroke oil, wd40 and other stuff, de-rusts overnight quiet well.

Ok, next part will be re-assembly once i locate new rings, and hopefully a new block!

one off VW Caddy

stejack — Tue Aug 19, 2008 11:24 pm

Author: stejack

Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 11:24 pm

i like this a lot

Anyone know Villiers stationery engines?

HBpete — Tue Aug 19, 2008 10:32 pm

Author: HBpete

Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 10:32 pm

Ok, hes on holiday this week, will ask when he comes back next week.

Peter

BOGOF! Mercs

weegieboy — Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:52 pm

Author: weegieboy

Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:52 pm

Hmmm, looking at the seller's feedback, it seems to be the second time he's sold that car. Again, Hmmmmmm!

Lost car factory plants?

weegieboy — Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:44 pm

Author: weegieboy

Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:44 pm

Just went back to the older thread there, some cracking pics there!

Immaculate Imp

HBpete — Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:24 pm

Author: HBpete

Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:24 pm

Thats very nice, same colour as the one I had. Imps better than Minis anyday!!

Peter

Cars built from a mixed bag?

HBpete — Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:16 pm

Author: HBpete

Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:16 pm

Reliant Scimitars, front indicators same has Viva HC. Track rod ends on HB vivas same as Minis. PC mag did a pullout series awhile ago on interchangeable parts. Anyone got the new issue of Retro Cars, came out on 13 August, I carnt find one anywhere.

Peter

Dorchester limo

junkyarddog — Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:55 pm

Author: junkyarddog

Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:55 pm

That will end up on the oval.

What have you seen today?

Saturn Simon — Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:29 pm

Author: Saturn Simon

Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:29 pm

If it was Chevrolet badged then it's a Chevrolet Lumina APV:

There were also Pontiac and Oldsmobile versions, the Trans Sport and Silhouette respectively. That does look like the Chevrolet version though.

These MPVs are known by the nickname "Dusterbuster", due to their shape.