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

[VitesseEFI]

20 minutes ago, GregT said:

And square sausage.

Ah, Lorne sausage. I’d forgotten about that. Looks more like meatloaf than sausage to me…. Not sure I’ve ever had it but looks more appealing than haggis.
 

(I’m Scottish born but of Sassenach parents and exported to Africa on first birthday, so no expert on Scotland)

[igor]

7 hours ago, BiTurbo228 said:

Ah, you must mean the Habsburgs. You know, the royals who managed to successfully convince practically every single royal family within Europe to marry them despite becoming progressively and horrendously inbred.

See, marketing!

That family belongs in the design disasters thread.

[Hyperblade]

That is bloody impressive that you can just put the old engine back in with only minor changes!

[yoeddynz]

Yeah I'm happy as with how plug and play it is. I wanted to keep it this way because there are still elements to the flat six and scooby box I like to have more time testing to confirm durability of.  This little Datsun is a known reliable setup. The Honda combo has to prove itself fully yet.

[Truenotch]

That's really nice to be able to swap back to the Datsun engine while you iron out the bugs or for WOFs before it's certed. 

Is it possible to get two engine setups certified? You can do it for wheel sizes.

[cletus]

unlikely

i queried for a customer who wanted 2 different bonnets- one with a hole for filters/tunnel ram, and one with a reverse scoop, they said no.

[yoeddynz]

It would be super neat to be able to do so but yeah I can see it becoming a mess for all. 

Luckily it's really just a toy and so long as the Honda turns out to be reliable I'm happy to keep it Honda.  Especially now I know I've actually only added circa 14 kgs, but it's lower down, 5 gears and have a parcel shelf I can actually put parcels on! 

Plus I'll earn extra 'Barry baiting' points at shows when I can get them arguing over what it is. 

Whereas with the 4 pot they all just agree it's a updated Morris minor donk. 

[oldrx7]

You probably don't want to put parcels on the parcel tray though - that'll add more weight to the back. 

But of course you'll have extra bricks or potting mix for the front to counter all those extra parcels.

[yoeddynz]

yeah actually very valid point !

We will have to be strategic with our shopping to balance the car out. Only toilet rolls, tissues and bags of crisps allowed on parcel shelf.

[Bearded Baldy]

Sitting on a shelf just as you walk into horopito motors. Is a pair a labeled hillman imp axles. In pride of place on top of the shelf.

Didn't see the rest of the car though.

Offsider said 'who would want a pair off imp axles? There isn't any left alive'.

I thought of this thread but couldn't bring myself to face the judgement of the work boys, from me being all excited over an imp so said nothing.

 

 

 

[Roman]

Hey I was talking to an Imp guy, and mentioned that you'd added some weight in the back with the reflectors. 

He said no worries, just pop an extra brick in the front and you'll be right. 

Hope that helps 

[tortron]

4 minutes ago, Roman said:

Hey I was talking to an Imp guy, and mentioned that you'd added some weight in the back with the reflectors. 

He said no worries, just pop an extra brick in the front and you'll be right. 

Hope that helps 

THE REFLECTORS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE MOUNTED ABOVE THE BUMPER, I CANNOT BELIEVE HE OVERLOOKED THIS IMP DETAIL

[Sunbeam]

Hope the tyres work out well for you. Glad you didn’t get RP28’s as I can say with great confidence they are shiiiiiit.

[yoeddynz]

Interesting you mention them. The fella who did my wof fits loads of various Goodrides and rates them but did mention mine were an updated/better one than the 28s. Reckoned they are good in the wet too but I don't really choose too go out when its raining (ha ha - I say that now but I did for my first fucking drive with the Honda donk and it was very wet!)

Time will tell but so far, given they have to settle in, they feel fine in use. I'll certainly report back with future findings because its a bit slim pickings for 175/60 13s right now.

I'm tempted to bag a set of Yokohamas A539s at the quoted price of 145 fitted for my turbos but I'd really like to see if I'm happy with these Goodrides first.

One thing I have noticed is how out of balance my worn front tyres were because there was a fair shake around 90 and that's gone. I think it was possibly an element of them having worn badly with excessive negative camber and losing some of that camber put them into a different plane that created shake if you know what I mean.

[BiTurbo228]

Can recommend A539s. Had them on my X1/9 and they did everything I'd expect a tyre to do, wet or dry.

[Snoozin]

Yep, A539s are flippin' outstanding. I run them in 175/60/13 on the KP.

Everything China I have tried thus far has a real floppy sidewall...

[yoeddynz]

Your wheels will fit my Imp (let's ignore the 1.6mm and accordingly slightly tweeked studs eh) . Swaps for a weekend and we can compare 

 

Or swap cars.  You can marvel at the full on assault to the senses a mighty A12 can unleash.

[Roman]

Youre not wrong, the noise to power ratio of the A12 is incredible 

[igor]

This thing just appeared in our facebook feed.

[GregT]

Like the supplementary thrust bearing(s).  The devil is in the detail though. There'll be quite a lot of heat sink coming through- which may well melt the grease out of the presumably sealed bearings. I'd have cleaned them out and repacked with HMP grease I think.