Discuss here about Yoeddynz's little Imp project...

[yoeddynz]

3 hours ago, mjrstar said:

You are most likely all over this, I didn't see a photo of the back side of the HRB, but one thing I learnt the hard way in a retrofit of a very similar looking Saab HRB into the mx5, is that the back side of the unit needs a solid base. As the rear cover where you gain access to service the hydraulics is a crimped in disc. This will not withstand hydraulic pressure without being sandwiched so it can't move. 

Yeah I've got that covered. I had looked at that and thought much the same. So the feet that support the main base it are quite big and solid as. 

Im also sticking with this older model that has a bleed nipple because I've read that quite alot of pissing about bleeding the later ones when retro fitted. 

[anglia4]

The tilton one in our race car has a long tube for the bleed, tis plumbed to the top of the firewall so you can bleed it without jacking up the car.

[yoeddynz]

Good idea for RWD applications if its under the tunnel!

This one however will be pretty easy to get to because I'm going to keep a removable cover on the parcel shelf, what is currently covered by the fiberglass box that goes over the Datsun engine.

 

[kws]

11 hours ago, anglia4 said:

The tilton one in our race car has a long tube for the bleed, tis plumbed to the top of the firewall so you can bleed it without jacking up the car.

The Morris Ital had this from factory, those forward thinking engineers 

[anglia4]

12 hours ago, yoeddynz said:

Good idea for RWD applications if its under the tunnel!

This one however will be pretty easy to get to because I'm going to keep a removable cover on the parcel shelf, what is currently covered by the fiberglass box that goes over the Datsun engine.

 

I thought that might be the case!

[flyingbrick]

So good, wish you had a YouTube series. 

[yoeddynz]

It would end up filled with cat content.

[Raizer]

12 minutes ago, yoeddynz said:

It would end up filled with cat content.

Now I really wish you had a YouTube series.

[yoeddynz]

I recently popped up some recent photos of the flat six on the Hillman Imp Facebook group. Lots of enthusiasm for it but I was waiting for a Barry to quip in... 

 

 

[yoeddynz]

My response was.. 

 

[tortron]

The engine only feels so smooth due to the precise routing of the throttle cable

[yoeddynz]

And then this... 

[yoeddynz]

Barry's back... 

 

[ThePog]

He is clearly of the "throw money at it until it works" rather than "throw scrap and talent at it until it works" school of thought.

Does he not know that the calipers will be sourced from some shitbox, the rotors from another unrelated shitbox, the master cylinder from a tractor and that it only needs those $45 worth of parts and 47 hours and you will have a brembo equivalent?

Fucking amateur.

[Toucan]

Oh man, imaging having to open the engine internals, walk in the park after this level of clever custom fabrication work

[yoeddynz]

I told my brothers about this Facebook expert and my brother said this.. 

 

[tortron]

Missing the points! Why would you get rid of a perfectly reliable ignition system. You better carry it in the frunk for rapid change over then the transistors burn out leaving you stranded

[cubastreet]

Looks awesome! Did imps have climax engines or am I thinking of something else?

 

[anglia4]

This one does... If you're picking up what I'm putting down  

[yoeddynz]

1 hour ago, cubastreet said:

Looks awesome! Did imps have climax engines or am I thinking of something else?

 

Yeah. I hear about that fact quite often when the barries start swarming. 

"it's a fire pump engine don't you know" 

Usually stated alongside the fact that they handle much better with a sack of concrete in the front