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by Durango2k
Sun Dec 19, 2021 9:56 pm
Forum: Series 1
Topic: AGM Battery Choice
Replies: 5
Views: 1526
Germany

Re: AGM Battery Choice

Optima red top. The die when un-loaded to deep, but when they are treated nicely, they deliver an enormous current.

Carsten
by Durango2k
Sun Dec 19, 2021 8:13 pm
Forum: Series 1
Topic: Wide Angle Head
Replies: 8
Views: 2253
Germany

Re: Wide Angle Head

Wider angle usually means the option to fit larger valves.

Carsten
by Durango2k
Thu Sep 23, 2021 12:49 pm
Forum: Technical
Topic: Series 1, 2+2 Exhaust
Replies: 13
Views: 2817
Germany

Re: Series 1, 2+2 Exhaust

I can take pics from mine, but from memory this is what I did, 2 pipes 4 clamps to fill the gap.
Originally the 2-1-2 situation is located roughly there.

Carsten
by Durango2k
Sun Sep 12, 2021 8:07 pm
Forum: Series 1
Topic: Series 1 2+2 under dash parcel shelf and harduras
Replies: 7
Views: 2028
Germany

Re: Series 1 2+2 under dash parcel shelf and harduras

Here they go, I did forget to take some a few times, I am really getting old. https://up.picr.de/42037237qi.jpeg https://up.picr.de/42037240wk.jpeg https://up.picr.de/42037243vk.jpeg https://up.picr.de/42037247aw.jpeg https://up.picr.de/42037249ms.jpeg https://up.picr.de/42037253wt.jpeg https://up.p...
by Durango2k
Sun Sep 12, 2021 5:32 pm
Forum: Technical
Topic: Camber: 1deg pos but without shims ?
Replies: 3
Views: 1125
Germany

Re: Camber: 1deg pos but without shims ?

Yes hight set, 185/15 original spec, new Dunlop original spec rims, and as I said I‘ll leave it for now, so it‘ll settle and I‘ll get back in a few months (hopefully).

Carsten
by Durango2k
Sun Sep 12, 2021 3:54 pm
Forum: Technical
Topic: Camber: 1deg pos but without shims ?
Replies: 3
Views: 1125
Germany

Camber: 1deg pos but without shims ?

… I found 0.75-1 deg pos camber front left. Front right was pos 2 degs. I have the trakrite gauge and a selfmade angled bar plus tipped-edge distance bolts and I trued the gauge vs a long builders spirit level. I have now pos 75 on the right side, and something like pos 0.6 on the left, after settin...
by Durango2k
Thu Sep 09, 2021 7:30 pm
Forum: Technical
Topic: Bonnet: dished lip around front lights ?
Replies: 59
Views: 17047
Germany

Re: Bonnet: dished lip around front lights ?

For me, it‘s ok. I think it is a bit dark, so I often tend to not use it- but for longer seams it is certainly useful. Just when you do spots - too dark, then you weld, and then if its a spot only, it gets black, but until you have adapted to that, the spot is finished. The 2+2: just going to the pa...
by Durango2k
Fri Sep 03, 2021 9:19 pm
Forum: Series 1
Topic: Series 1 2+2 under dash parcel shelf and harduras
Replies: 7
Views: 2028
Germany

Re: Series 1 2+2 under dash parcel shelf and harduras

Would pics of an LHD car help ?

Carsten
by Durango2k
Tue Aug 10, 2021 8:22 am
Forum: Technical
Topic: E type Roll Centre and Handling
Replies: 88
Views: 20577
Germany

Re: E type Roll Centre and Handling

… oh and I am somewhat convinced that the E- Type‘s front suspension setup is a bit a derivative from the 11CV. Both have triangle arms, and both have torsion bars. Or is there any other (british) car setup that would have been „closer“ ?
by Durango2k
Mon Aug 09, 2021 6:17 pm
Forum: Technical
Topic: E type Roll Centre and Handling
Replies: 88
Views: 20577
Germany

Re: E type Roll Centre and Handling

Not really E related, but Citroen did a lot in 1934 with the 11CV and even more in 1955 to get the centre of roll as much up as they could. Sadly I have no data, but their goal always was a low centre of gravity (ladder frame in DS, SM, and thin window pillars, one spoke steering wheel, thin glass, ...
by Durango2k
Fri Aug 06, 2021 4:03 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Age demographic
Replies: 15
Views: 3650
Germany

Re: Age demographic

Well, when you‘re 20something it is usually rather hard to be able to throw out like 100 grand for a toy… when you‘re 60 and had a life with a reasonable income, and it‘s your childhood dream, then why not, plus all your attorney and dentist friends at ghe golf club say it‘s an investment (to keep S...
by Durango2k
Sat Jul 10, 2021 7:09 am
Forum: Technical
Topic: How to remove a Britax sliding roof cover ?
Replies: 2
Views: 1050
Germany

How to remove a Britax sliding roof cover ?

My painter wants me to take of the vinyl sliding part. I remember the whole roof is bolted into the roof with small nuts hidden under the roof foam. Can the sliding vinyl part be take off solely, if so, how ? My car is to be sent to him after our holiday in iceland, in mid - august, when he‘s back a...
by Durango2k
Tue Jun 29, 2021 7:37 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Status Quo
Replies: 16
Views: 4281
Germany

Re: Status Quo

…. Music-wise I‘m off to Paris tomorrow. On 3.7.21, 2 days after my 50th, I‘ll be visiting Jim at Pere LaChaise.

Carsten
by Durango2k
Tue Jun 29, 2021 4:46 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Status Quo
Replies: 16
Views: 4281
Germany

Status Quo

Image

Bonnet to be painted within 8 weeks, Pilkington told me my windshield will be delivered soon, so maybe after 13 years…

Carsten
by Durango2k
Tue Jun 22, 2021 5:05 am
Forum: General
Topic: When is an import not an import?
Replies: 16
Views: 4327
Germany

Re: When is an import not an import?

Could not someone here just buy a tatty Hillman Imp or an Allegro with a quartic wheel (buy british!), insure it and loan it to Pete ? If anything happens it was a short term loan like „I gave it to him for 2 days“ or so - in germany that would be ok.

Carsten
by Durango2k
Sun Jun 20, 2021 1:18 pm
Forum: General
Topic: When is an import not an import?
Replies: 16
Views: 4327
Germany

Re: When is an import not an import?

Guy : we have this problem fairly regularly in our touring club when we have tried to lend cars to overseas members . It is very difficult indeed to insure a non-hire car for an overseas resident to drive in the UK . Don't ask me why this is, because I don't understand it ! …because you drive on th...
by Durango2k
Sat Jun 19, 2021 1:26 pm
Forum: General
Topic: When is an import not an import?
Replies: 16
Views: 4327
Germany

Re: When is an import not an import?

If you happen to come along northern germany drop me a line in advance…
(Felix is now 18, so I put him in Susanne‘s 1990 MX5. He loves that small fun car a lot).

Carsten
by Durango2k
Sat Jun 12, 2021 5:02 am
Forum: Series 1
Topic: Insulation of the contacts of the distributor cap burned
Replies: 29
Views: 7096
Germany

Re: Insulation of the contacts of the distributor cap burned

Yes, BJ means Baujahr which means year of built. I thought maybe the dissi drive is 1 tooth of inside the engine ? Carsten P.S - my car is also a 1966 / March S1 2+2. I am sanding the bonnet for painting this summer, and I’m still waiting for the windscreen „to be made in England“….for about 7 month...
by Durango2k
Wed May 26, 2021 8:48 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Classic British Cars BBC4
Replies: 13
Views: 3339
Germany

Re: Classic British Cars BBC4

I have now seen it. And I liked it (though the term „rubbish“ used on the Imp, hm, ok, maybe). And it motivated me to go on sanding my bonnet / due to Covid the painter found some time helping me out, so I am trying to really get it done. Oh and l‘ll write another mail to Pilkington where the heck m...
by Durango2k
Sat May 22, 2021 5:34 am
Forum: General
Topic: Classic British Cars BBC4
Replies: 13
Views: 3339
Germany

Re: Classic British Cars BBC4

Hm, available online for non - Britons ? Bbc iplayer say „uk mainland only“…?

Would love to watch as I also have an Imp based kit…

Carsten