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 Elf eating dog breeder Posts: 10531    Location: Guildford | |||
| DotMatrix |
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 Expert Posts: 4458   Location: Jelling, Denmark | FreddieS - 2/11/2009 10:21 AM Glad it got to you safely, looks really good in the car! What roller rockers were they? really want to avoid them! yes. thanks for wrapping it propperly and posting it. well happy with the buy  minispares C-AHT446A roller tip. not super pleased with them my self, but luckily it looks like nothing else got broken. right now thinking of whether or not to go back to standard iron rockers, or to buy a replacement rocker arm. | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | a few pictures of last weekends work on the car. took the engine out to check if I had a valve which was leaking and to measure where the camshaft was timed at because I had a problem with getting power in the high revs and getting it to rev past 5500 rpm. when the engine was out and I took the cylinder head off I found that the head gasket had gone between cylinders 2 and 3, water from one of the water passages was also leaking into the cylinder, and that the cam had shifted a tooth on the cam chain because the tensioner was broken and had fallen off despite being brand new. changed the head gasket and cam tensioner, timed the cam correctly, and put the engine back in the car. when first started a clear difference could be heard and felt, so a good weekends work    Edited by DotMatrix 27/12/2011 2:16 PM | ||
| FreddieS |
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Elf eating dog breeder Posts: 10531 Location: Guildford | |||
| DotMatrix |
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | FreddieS - 29/11/2009 11:33 AM Ouch! Any good pics of the enginebay now? Really like what youve done with this car, shame half the pics in this thread are dead! I will take some pics next weekend, didn't get pics of this weekends work, but will remember to take some of the engine bay next weekend yes. its annoying with the pictures. I don't know what have happened with the pictures, they can still be opened, but aren't shown in the thread. | ||
| DotMatrix |
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | updated the attachements which had gone dead, so now all pics are working again | ||
| JamieS |
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| "MG Metro 1300" Location: Warwickshire, UK | Dont seem to be having much luck with this atm.. still looking good  | ||
| DotMatrix |
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | took a couple of pictures this weekend. didn't get any work done though. just went for a drive in it  these pictures are of the inside of the car. nice clean floors with out holes glad to see that being it has been some years since it was welded. did sand and paint it thought. moved the battery to the spare wheel well. used the cables from previously used to power the amplifier to connect it up. still a bit work to do tidying up the wires though.     Edited by DotMatrix 27/12/2011 2:18 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | also took a couple of pictures of the engine bay. the place the battery used to be, the bracket I made for the start solenoid, new trumpets for the carbs and the braking system all connected up. need to reposition the fuel pump though, right now its just wedged in where it fit with the battery out, theres real easy access to the clutch now sorry about the mess in the engine bay. the car is quite dirty         Edited by DotMatrix 27/12/2011 2:21 PM | ||
| Pietaster |
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 Admin Posts: 1576  Location: Burnley, Lancs | I'm liking the twin HIF's! those are quite hard to find for A-series engines! i think you have to get em from a bigger car and shorten the linkages............... My old mini popped it head gasket there, cause a total loss of power and made it completely undriveable | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | Pietaster - 4/1/2010 1:00 PM I'm liking the twin HIF's! those are quite hard to find for A-series engines! i think you have to get em from a bigger car and shorten the linkages............... My old mini popped it head gasket there, cause a total loss of power and made it completely undriveable I made the twin HIF's from two single HIF's and the linkage from a series 2 xj6 shortened, and a manifold for twin hs4 carbs which I bored out to the bigger size carbs. yes. I think its quite a common place to blow the head gasket for the A series engine. am also stocking a few headgaskets and manifold gasktes now | ||
| FreddieS |
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Elf eating dog breeder Posts: 10531 Location: Guildford | |||
| DotMatrix |
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | did a bit of work on the A series this weekend. fitted my brake servo number two which meant cutting into the heater motor because it was the only place I could find room for the brake servo. the room where the battery used to be is to be used for an oil-catch tank, so that was why I didn't just put the servo there. MOT comming up soon (a week ago actually, but have booked a time friday 12 days, so that will be extremely exciting to see how that will go!     Edited by DotMatrix 27/12/2011 2:24 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | finished a few minor things on the metro this weekend. here is a few pics of the car now       Edited by DotMatrix 27/12/2011 2:29 PM | ||
| Metromartin |
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| Pietaster |
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Admin Posts: 1576 Location: Burnley, Lancs | |||
| DotMatrix |
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | Metromartin - 14/3/2010 10:08 AM Thats an impressive mk1!! Whats the coke bottle for? thank you the coke is oil pickup. temporary solution until I make a bracket to hold a bigger bottle. | ||
| DotMatrix |
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | Pietaster - 14/3/2010 10:27 AM Looks like a breather tank, or a collector for the float bowl overflow? I really like what you've done with the carb's. The left hand HIF's are quite rare so duelling them up is an easier option. I've wondered weather i could do this this with K-series carbs in the future as i have a second one which i keep as a spare. Is that two brake servo's i spy? thank its oil breather thing yes. but as above, temporary. need to fit a 2 liter bottle when I make up a bracket. the HIF's are just two identical HIF's from two metro's and linkage addapted from a series 2 xj6. works great. yes its two brake servo's. one for each brake circuit. doesn't make bleeding the brakes any easier | ||
| DotMatrix |
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | had the car on a rolling road in the weekend. the bhp was what I expected. I want it to make more power, want at least 10 more bhp out of it, so will have to figure out how torque is quite good though. well happy with that not to happy with that massive bump in the curves... cant figure out what is causing that, but want it gone. The three runs is with different mixture settings.   Edited by DotMatrix 27/12/2011 2:34 PM | ||
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Admin Posts: 1576 Location: Burnley, Lancs | |||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | Pietaster - 12/4/2010 10:06 AM Won't that be the needle profile causing the bump? perhaps. im not exactly an su specialist but I think the first thing I will try to change is the damper springs. have tried several different needles, and this one seems the best. | ||
| FreddieS |
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Elf eating dog breeder Posts: 10531 Location: Guildford | |||
| DotMatrix |
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | a small update about what I have been up to this weekend at the last hill climb event I was told that my car needed a new fire-extinguisher as the old one was to old, a box for the battery so I wouldn't get acid on me when I had and accident with the battery inside the car and to get some door cards on the doors because they had sharp edges... so I fitted the battery box which has a alloy plate in the bottom which serves the purpose to hold the battery box down and hold the battery, and I bought a new fire-extinguisher (cheap crap - £20). the door cards are made out of thin black cardboard which has texture on it the lightest thing I could think of was card board first I tried to put the door cards on with double sided tape, but that didn't stick as the cardboard wasn't straight, so ended up glueing them on with that sort of black extremely strong window-sealant. and lastly the brake servo for the front wheels only had a very sharp bend in the pipe where it exits the servo and I suspected this was the cause of my 50/50 brake distribution, so fixed that. haven't tried it yet though.        Edited by DotMatrix 27/12/2011 2:38 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | so I was at my 3'rd hill climb this weekend. Saturday was test day at a track without anybody keeping time or anything. there I managed to get the car running as good as ever until I snapped the clutch pipe. So went home and fixed that Saturday. Sunday was the actual race, which was 1 drive through short because of a record high number of attendants (104 cars). the reason for the many cars is that this is THE hill climb in Denmark. my first time were quite good. the second time up the hill I were millimetres from hitting a bale of straw, so that time were quite poor. and my two last runs were somewhere in between because I could feel that something were wrong with the car. the engine was jumping under hard acceleration and engine braking. later discovered this was due to having snapped a engine mount on the front right hand side of the engine. while avoiding hitting the straw-bale, I bumped out over the edge of the road with a little bit of damage to the rim (only cosmetic) from the gravel out there, and to the rears arch. and then the third run up the hill the car was boiling due to the fan not being able to turn round because the snapped engine mount allowed the engine to give it a knock. so all in all a mixed weekend resulting and a bit of work to do, but luckily nothing seriously broken      Edited by DotMatrix 27/12/2011 2:40 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | fixed the rear arch, fan and engine mount today. here are some pictures of the arch work (the color isn't perfect, but its good enough), the old engine mount (just put in an old used one. will probably make a mini-style stabilizing bar sometime) and the rim touched up a bit, you can still see the stone chips, but its better.         Edited by DotMatrix 27/12/2011 2:45 PM | ||
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