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Martin,
It would be nice to see it at the weekend, but it doesn't sound promising.
I've had a new young member on from Eire, I've forwarded his email on to a
few of you ,for your "pearls of wisdom".

Chris P


-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Gutkowski [mailto:webmaster@xxxx]
Sent: 11 July 2002 23:10
To: doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [doc] Place your bets...


Hmmmm - this may be true on a "reg'lar" engine Chris, but in #2727's case we
THINK the car was abandoned halfway through a
turbo conversion. She needed head gaskets and a water pump, and had never
had the mixture adjusted....

More woe today and we took a giant step backwards. Hopefully the advice Don
gave Rich will allow him to get it running but he
has till only Saturday morning to do it! AND she needs a new brake master
cylinder!

Martin

Chris Parnham wrote:

> Dan, Did you say she has plates?
>
> Dave and I are inveterate "non-twiddlers" when it comes to mixture, timing
> etc. Usually, as Martin found out the other day, if its misfiring, its
> probably something packed up, not something that's suddenly "adjusted
> itself" ! You can soon end up with two faults instead on one!
>
> Chris P
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: funkymcfly [mailto:danielpwillis@xxxx]
> Sent: 11 July 2002 11:39
> To: doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [doc] Place your bets...
>
> Hi Martin,
>
> I think after the first six months of this year.. we all need a holiday.
> Back in January when I bought my car I remember thinking "Can I get this
> done for July.. it's closer than it looks".. and how right I was. When
> you're busy time has a tendancy to run away.
>
> My car will be running rich for the show - I don't want to mess with it
> while it's running well. After that (and she has plates) I can play with
the
> mixture and drive a bit.. play and drive etc...
>
> Let me know if you can get some holiday or not.. and I shall try too.
>
> Dan
>
> --- In doc-uk@xxxx, Martin Gutkowski <webmaster@xxxx> wrote:
> > Hi Dan
> >
> > Basically Jason, our mechanic, took holiday at precisely the wrong
time -
> in the two weeks leading up to SCS. He left it in
> > the state of running fine but needing the HT leads changing. We replaced
> them and the car would only fire on crank and not
> > run. We had to drill our the fuel adjustment screw (Rob Grady was amazed
> it had not been done, given it's a twin turbo), and
> > with that richened to a daft level she finally ran, with 12v across the
> coil. It was after removing the dizzy cap and finding
> > a misplaced vaccum hose that she ran on the ballast resustors. Only THEN
> did we discover (thanks to the shrill whistling) that
> > one of the turbo pipes wasn't mounted correctly and we had an enormous
> vaccum leak. I wrestled it back on and made sure it was
> > secure then twiddled the mixture back down. She pops and bangs a little
> bit but I think she's still a bit rich - and the bangs
> > are a lot more pronounced with those tin-pot exhausts! Idle acts a
little
> funny but no worse than the BTTF car in Memphis, and
> > we're all agreed that a "good run" will do that engine the power of
good.
> Now its just brakes (hopefully it's just bleeding
> > them!). Handbrake was done some time ago (thanks James!)
> >
> > Roboteering costs me a lot in the holiday department! I *may* be able to
> scam a couple of un-paid days to make up enough for a
> > week - and believe me I really want to!
> >
> > Martin
> >
> > funkymcfly wrote:
> >
> > > If it helps, I really can relate.
> > >
> > > Normally in the past I would pay someone else to do the dirty work
> > > but in ONE day I had the car in for MOT twice and then back home and
> > > a complete brake bleed - handbrake adjustment etc etc... you suddenly
> > > just get on with it.
> > >
> > > I still need to sort my electrics, disassemble and reassemble the
> > > speedo/angle drive, paint facias/window trim... blah blah blah.. and
> > > I ain't trusting ANYONE with my car (well, I'd trust you club guys
> > > but that's different) so I'm doing it myself.
> > >
> > > Don't rush #2727 if she's not gonna make it... take heed of Project
> > > Vixen!
> > >
> > > I should have free time coming up if I can help at all... maybe time
> > > for another "D" day for work?
> > >
> > > Shame about the Europe thing - I have 5 weeks holiday to take yet!
> > >
> > > Dan
> > > Vin#5284 - Hana
>
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