VitesseEFI

Interesting to see all the various techniques employed.  The blend of old tech and new tech..... as to the results..... I guess if I have to ask (and I do), I won't understand......

Someone should buy them a stretcher /shrinker.....

Nick

3 hours ago, JustHarry said:

It's strange that only one has picked up

Yeah…. Not familiar with this engine, but it certainly can be a thing that one bearing location gets most failures. On the Triumph 6 it’s no 5 big end, on the small Triumph 4-pots it’s no 3 big end. Not obvious (to me) why - guess it’s where the air goes. The line between fail and getting away with it is quite fine.

Well caught anyway and good luck with measuring in parts hunt 

Thought that one of the reasons for EWPs was so that you could vary their speed accordingly to heat loading?

Not ideal but could be far worse. Would be worth measuring the crank properly (micrometer) as assuming it’s not gone oval the standard shells would likely be fine. Damage was probably caused by short-term oil starvation either due to the sludge or slow build of oil pressure after long time standing.

4 hours ago, Roman said:

Hmmm if it does fully open only by 95 deg then maybe it's not so bad, as it only got to 96. 
Will need to drive it for longer to see if that number keeps going up, so long as it's not over 100 then it's probably fine. 

This, more testing needed 

Classy work as always. And lots of clever little tricks and tools to help the process. I’m taking notes. Plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery  

Nick

13 minutes ago, nzstato said:

From my own 3.9 Disco era...

16L / 100km was about average 'around town'

13L / 100km best on a longer trip

They love to drink it

22.9 reported…… that’s heavy duty drinking.

Having the rad temperature sensor in the outgoing flow gives the rad load/cooling efficiency. This makes it easier to control the fans and maintain a steady engine temperature as it gives an earlier indication that the rad is loosing the battle 

Senarios:

- low load, low speed in traffic, so little actual airflow. Top hose temp won’t go up until the whole system is heat soaked.

-high load, high speed. Top hose temp may be quite high but you don’t the fans on as there’s plenty of natural airflow.

1 hour ago, kws said:

not that much different in economy from all my other SD1s

Really? Are you a hooligan?
 

A mate had a series 2A shorty with coil spring chassis, RR ‘box and 3.9 V8 on SUs.  It weighed almost 2.5 tons and still did better than that on fuel. Except when towing a horse box with two fat horses in it, when it did worse, though not much worse….

I shall follow the development with great interest.  Fuel economy hides in the ignition timing map as well as the fuel map, but I sure you know that.

Nick

Congrats on the successful outing. I expected no less. 

Fuel economy is….. errr…… 

12.33mpg if you use imperial gallons. Still fairly horrific.  Something not right there- about double thst should be possible. Imagine Speeduino and a bit of tuning will help a lot. Presumably  the 3.9 could handle a stiffer torque converter for a bit less slip…. Not that you’ll be wanting to pull the engine again!

Nick

Came up nice. Rewarding colour.

Denmark WA. Not sure if someone parked it on its roof or dropped a tree on it….

Denmark WA. Very crusty….

Parking fail at Cuttagee beach NSW.

The landing didn’t do it much good and the salt water isn’t helping….,

No idea what it was….

Nick

2 hours ago, keltik said:

All the gubbins is glued and bead rolled / crimped together like a coke can.  There is a crowd who do rebuilt ones for $1500 each but their reputation is shithouse in the Jag community - lots of early failures and dead ones out of the box.

Ah, ok. That’s a pity.

Struts not rebuildable? I mean I’m sure they’re not intended to be but maybe can be done?

Nick

On 25/08/2022 at 07:51, Tiger Tamer said:

Best way to go about it would be a help.

Just buy the right bearing. Looks like it should be 12mm.  Likely less than 10 bucks even for a decent quality one. What on earth is 10.89mm anyway??

Don’t mod the gearbox as then it’ll be wrong/different for ever more and catch you out next time (guess how I know that!)

Nick

That’s niiiice 

Loads of swarf …..

‘96 Audi A6

344k miles = 550k Kms.

untouched original engine, box, clutch, starter, alternator and most of the exhaust. Many suspension parts….

Nick

Edit: 345678 is within my grasp…. (Poor sad fool!)

1967 Vitesse 2L

Those are miles not km and mileage is from September ‘89 when I first put it on the road after major restoration.

Think it had about 130k miles on it before that, but fairly irrelevant as there’s very little of the original car left in the current one.

A couple of years back I got fed up with the general fragility of Triumph gearboxes (again) and decided I would make one of the Mazda gearboxes I had kicking around fit in my Triumph GT6. Critical goal was minimal hackery to car itself….……

 …… was a bit of a mission.

https://sideways-technologies.co.uk/forums/index.php?/topic/8925-mazda-gearboxes-some-bstard-told-me-it-was-impossible-so-i-had-to-do-it/#comments

44 minutes ago, yoeddynz said:

Seeing your own dad in a body that is a shell of what it once was.

Oh yeah….. really not nice at all. Got some of that going on. Lots of small strokes taking him bit by bit. He commented recently that the hardest part of life seems to getting a clean dismount at the right moment….  
 

48 minutes ago, yoeddynz said:

Eccentric even back then 

Hmmmm - I wonder where I get my traits from 

His legacy lives on 

Outstanding  

Goes really hard for what it is. 122 mph…….  Looks like a real hoot to drive too.  Toyota build a solid bottom end and Roman extracts the max from it! 

Nick