VitesseEFI
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Find it strange going to a separate thread to comment….. also that no one has commented since May as there’s some very classy work happening here. Should get plenty of attention asbo orange
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Heh…wtf….. that’s a strange one….. Design flaw.
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That’s nice. Very useful thing. When I bought my lathe and mill drill from a neighbour moving away, along with the decent amount of tooling he also threw in a bench-top saw, telling me that I would use it twice as much as the lathe and mill together. He was right. Which reminds me….. I need to buy it a new blade.
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It’s got something horribly wrong with its face…..
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This is Jack. He was born about 20 years ago after we had a holiday in Berrynabor in North Devon. They have an annual pot-man (pot-person) competition and the place is infested with them, pot men, pot women, even a few pot cats and dogs.The kids, who were small at the time, absolutely loved them and insisted I made them one. So I did. He spent his first 15 years sitting in a huge pear tree at our last house, holding a saw. Then we moved. Initially he lived in a willow tree about 10 feet above where he is now, but that died and had to be cut down, so he was homeless. No2 son is an obsessive road biker so I made Jack a bike as a piss-take. Get plenty of amusement from passer-by reactions . Kids love it.
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12 hours ago, Nominal said:
Land Rover is high performance
Not really….. but really, really unreliable and not small problems either. The insurance companies know this.
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Very classy work on the inlet and fuel rail - as expected from this artisans workshop
Done a few fuel rails myself, but never a side feed….. in fact I don’t remember seeing anyone do one before. Came out very nicely.
Swarf….. have to be careful about that. If I bring it in the house I’ll find myself living in the workshop!
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Sounds pretty keen ….. seems very dark though, could maybe go a bit harder with the lights on?
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22 hours ago, yoeddynz said:
I think you need to talk to your neighbour about how they dress their cat..
yeah….. was going to suggest you shouldn’t take fashion advice from that cat….
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Check out Dolomite racks. They live behind the axle line and I think many parts are interchangeable with the other Triumph racks.
Mind you, with that fat Jag lump of the front wheels PAS might be nice….
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21 hours ago, cletus said:
putting a front steer rack behind the crossmember will make the steering go the wrong way
That’s what LHD racks are for….
Suspect there are other unintended consequences lurking though - there always are!
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Another foreigner from the far north tempted in by the excellent projects and banter that happen here.
My name is Nick, but Nick J is already here
, so I'll be VitesseEFI here as on RetroRides.
I'm based in Somerset, south west UK.
The current fleet is a
1967 Triumph Vitesse 2L convertible which I built from a heap of parts (about 6 cars worth) in 1988/9. It's been the victim of a certain amount of "development" over years, but I've also managed to cover over 90k miles in it amongst that, well over half of that in mainland Europe. It got EFI via Megasquirt in about 2004 and a Toyota W58 5 speed in 2005. It's on full time daily driver duty just now as we are having an actual summer ( with sun and warmth) so1000 miles added in July and still going....
High altitude testing in the French Alps @2,802m. That's about as high as you can get on tarmac
Just ragging it..... it's not very fast... but it feels very fast
1972 Triumph GT6 which no.1 son and I resurrected from a heap of bits in 2017/8. This was built more or less as stock, just in case I couldn't fit in it, but as I find I do fit, modification is now a strong possibility
GT6 looking shiny. That's a bit of a problem 'cause I feel I have to keep it nice - and I'm not a keen polisher. TT lurking in background where it belongs.....
2004 Audi TT 180 bhp 2wd belongs to Senior Management. She loves it (someone has to). I think the engine would be great in something else.......
1996 Audi A6 2.5TDI Avant. My main daily driver and workhorse since 2003. Still here because it's from the time when Audis were actually relatively simple and very well made - and it's as hard as nails. 343k miles (almost 550k kms) with no major mechanical work needed.
Working for it's living as usual. Most of the pics I have of it show it with something big attached to it or it covered in mud after a particularly muddy navigational rally.
I've been following Roman's adventures with small Toyota tuning with amazement...... I mean... 9k on a stock Prius bottom end.... repeatedly.....and only one oil filter launched into space. Awesome.
Hopefully can contribute something useful (or at least mildly amusing) once in a while - the bar is set high....
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Discuss here about Yoeddynz's little Imp project...
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Indeed. Very sad and difficult.
That conversion is going to be something to be proud of. Absolutely massive project but you just keep chipping away at it, one challenge at a time
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Nick