MightyJoe

I'm after someone to paint my Triumph. it's a 74 mk2. 

mates rates or panel shop recommendations i don't mind. 

it's had most of the bog work done by me. i want someone with a proper, professional eye to spend a day finishing it off and lay the colour on.  I have 4 litres of filler primer and 4 litres of light blue enamel. i want an orange stripe on there too, but this isn't too important at this stage. i just want it painted now. . if a proper body shop wants to supply their own paint etc i understand. 

Cheers. Joe. 

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Jut to say i can be around to help, or hinder if needed . i can transport it anywhere around chch too. 

the colour scheme i'm after  

is the Wednseday meet on at Creykes rd? 

I'll try and make that, be good to meet a few faces  

Don't suppose you know what your carbs running in the way chokes/jets? Looking to put a single 40 on my 1500 too.

Yeah 34mm choke, f8 55 idle jets, but these are a bit too big. It had 45s on there which were too lean but the 55s are wound right in. How much difference can 0.1mm make? Quite a bit apparently. I'd recommend looking at maybe f8 50s.

130 main jets with f16 emulsion tubes.

The triumph is a TC, always has been. It was owned by a lady who's brother is a mechanic and he maintained it for years. It's superb mechanically I haven't really touched it, minor parts here and there but she's been a great daily. Cheers for the positive comments on the colour scheme, gonna get some quotes to lay the paint soon. Get Christmas out the way first though.

Yeah it was mate ha, i was on my way home from the boss' workshop after working on the two, the cortina was still miss firing a bit then so i couldn't go any quicker. i was just cruising and enjoying the admiring glances  

Discussion.

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Discussion thread for my two cars, both minor projects. 

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Joe. 

G'day. Sorry if i'm breaking rules posting two at a time but i didn't think it was worth one a piece as they're both relatively small projects, if it's not allowed please let me know and i'll seperate them. 

These are my two, well the Cortina is mine and the Triumph is the Mrs...  I put the Cortina, "Jess"  in for a warrant today after a few months off the road running like a bag of spanners. she failed on a rear brake cylinder weeping so i replaced that this afternoon and  the missus is dropping it off tomorrow and hopefully she'll be stickered up for the summer!  Nothing flash under the bonnet but hopefully it'll prove functional and reliable which is enough for now. 

The Triumph, "Lola",   is bang in the middle of some major cosmetic surgery. 40 years of Kiwi sun wasn't kind to the old girl and she was looking tired and well past her best. After she failed Warrant in august on dreaded rust the decision was made to take her off the road, fix her properly and have something a little more  "fun" rather than just weld her up and keep on going.

an old picture after we'd not long had her.  

Taken a few weeks ago. 

The Colour scheme for the Triumph

It runs! I got a Haynes "Weber carburetors"  book from the library and it says 8.5mm closed 15mm open for the  floats. They were way off that. i've guestimated the gap cos i don't have a set of drill bits at home. but it starts first time now, no throttle. Cheers for the suggestions. i'll get it to the workshop at the weekend and play with it there where the boss has more tools. 

Now i have some tuning to do with it. Cylinders 1 and 2 are dry fouled, and 3 and 4 wet. which is really odd as the way the manifold splits the carb is 1 and 4 off the rear barrel, 2 and 3 off the front one. All good though at least i can get to tuning it now. needs a good run to warm up and then i can see what its doing. They could just be fouled from when it wouldn't start before. 

Cheers for all the help and suggestions. Joe. 

the carbs came off another 1500 pre crossflow track car with a ported head and pretty fresh bottom end but he was running 2 together. I have the other carb too but  was going to run 1 as i thought it'd be easier to tune! ha. Thats also why i increased the idle jet size as per what i'd read. fuel pressure is set at 1.5psi.  i haven't touched the floats, thats where i'll start tomorrow. Cheers. i'll report back. 

I've got a  single weber DCOE 40 on a 1500cc pre crosslfow. it won't start from cold. like, not at all. to get it running i have to stick on the jump leads and crank it for 45 seconds to a minute, choke on full, pumping the throttle and it'll splutter to life about 50% of the time. the other 50% it'll flood the plugs and when i swap them out for a dry set it'll start with a few cranks but there is fuel leaking from the top of the carb, from the jet cover.  

I've checked everything i can think of, and tried various adjustments of the air mixture screws. starting from 1/2 a turn out all the way to 4 turns out ( i realise this is far too much but just kept on trying)

it has a new dizzy cap and rotor, leads, plugs, i've double checked and treble checked the timing and firing order (1,2,4,3 on these weird engines) it's running the stock lift pump, with a malpassi filter king regulator (with a setup gauge) The carb is a dcoe 40 on a spear (lynx style) manifold. 34mm chokes, 165 main jets, 55 F8 idle jets (but have tried with 45 F8, still nothing) 45 pump jets. 

When it runs, it's alright. a bit rich but that's down to fine tuning. but i can't even get it to the rough running stage. and once it's started it'll restart without any gas or choke, just straight into life.  its got me beat and i'm well pissed off with it. Any help hugely appreciated. 

Joe. 

Cheers for the links chaps. This is now on hold as she failed the WOF on some pretty terminal rust. But it is going to be fixed, it's just not going to be a quick process.

I got mine as "flapper" inserts. Got them off trade me. My tyres are 70 profile sidewall too. And reversible if I fancy a change

http://www.elitewheelcompany.co.nz

Cheers for the info. I'll ring these guys in the week, they seem to know their stuff and should know if it'll need certing.

What's the legal on this? i'm not sure. i want an inch or 2 adding to dish my triumph wheels but if it's not gonna pass a wof i will just put mags on it. i want to keep the steels if poss though.

also any idea of cost around Chch?

Joe.

Joe- was it the fact you had owned your Cortina for so long that made you bring it over to NZ? Given how cheap ( I think ? ) they are here in NZ. I brought my Viva over from blighty. Possibly the only Viva to ever travel so far from the UK in the last few decades as not worth a lot but like you I had owned it for quite some time and just liked it. In retrospect I should have brought over a few cheap rx7s or something rare here in NZ. But glad I brought it over now

 

 

 

 

I Didn't ship it across mate... yet. The Red mk2 is another one i bought over here. the white E is still at my dads place in the UK. i'm going back at christmas so it'll br either sold or put into a container then. i tried to sell it before i came out but thecortinas have never been worth fortunes over there either. it's all about the escorts.

whitewalls. going for a 50's yank cruiser feel i think.

or burton power.

you could always be brave and go two tone. matt / satin black kit against the purple? but i agree totally that it hides the shape. the ford colour i think was called aubergine yeah. mine was patchy at best though, it ended up about 4 shades of purple so it had to go.

this is what the white E used to look like.

that's whats on my E which is a 1969 x flow. pre x flow is new territory for me. and yeah i love those side drafts. my escort is on twin dellortto 40's. love that noise! i'm looking for a side draft now. i've put up a want in the for sale section just. . i need that noise back in my life.

^^^ its a nail - cheers

uk car rotting, dont believe ya lol

there both very nice, at least you get driving them and have some good fun outta them

 

would have thought carb rebuild kits would have been available somewhere around the world, being a ford and all lol

 

but thats one of the problems with old cars, parts, unless its mega popular or parts are interchangable with something else,

it can be a nightmare

I've had a look for pictures of the engine, can't find one of the white one, it'd nothing exciting anyway. pretty standard looking crossflow with a load of messy wiring tbh. the red one is pre crossflow. i can sort a picture of thatt this week but again it's nothing exciting. well i'll have to eat my words now on the carb as there's two of the same as mine on trademe now. typical, i'm going to have a bid on one. i researched the carb, it's a rarer one. only made/fitted for 1 year as from 1968 onwards they came out with the crossflow engines and twin choke webers. i'm after a side draft for the right price anyway for a lynx manifold i have. i'm not going to mess with the outside too much it's already lowered 2" which is plenty around the CHCH roads. some nice 13" mags and some go-kart sized tyres and i'll be happy.

Cheers. "it's a nail" means it's rough. bent and rusty, been hammered more than once! ha. ive only owned it for a month, i've serviced it, replaced dizzy, points, leads and plugs, the whole carb was essentially just worn out,  leaking fuel and i couldn't get a rebuild kit so it now has a nissan cherry 1500 carb on. runs nicer but it's still breathing heavy using loads of oil. plan is to rebuild the bottom end, hopefully with forged stuff but that'll be if funds allow, mild head port, mild cam and a single 40/45 side draught. enough for a nice sound but it still needs to be driven round the city daily.  The white one is a 1600E. was totally standard when i got it and aubergine purple.  i spent a bit on getting that up to scratch, had that for 8 years now. the paint job was a tart up and blow over. it's never going to be a show winner, check the panel gaps! but it was a present for my 21st off my dad. i love it. been all over the uk in it and did some shows with it. it's more of a sunday blast toy though, that's sitting quietly rotting at my dads house in the UK i need to move it on.

Evening. These are my 2. The Uk white one is rough but has mint running gear. Stripped and caged1600 xflow. The red NZ is a super 1500. bench seat, column change. i love the car but it's a nail. tidy bodywork but the engine smokes 20 a day and needs constant tweaking to keep it as a daily. i'm saving at the mo for a full rebuild. I also want to get it back onto black plates if there's a way. i'm not too clued up on the law on this.

Joe.