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 Posts: 2794    Location: Tamworth/Measham | Mint i forgot you had this mate,nice result tbh and cant complain that you could get an extra 10bhp out of a mint result already  | ||
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 Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | mookie - 4/5/2011 9:48 PM Is this 90 at the wheels? Very nice car btw! thanks  no, at the crank | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | Turley_vvc - 4/5/2011 10:28 PM Mint i forgot you had this mate,nice result tbh and cant complain that you could get an extra 10bhp out of a mint result already thanks. I am also quite pleased with the result. Does sound quite good at high rpm, also the diff i put in this winter has a nice whine to it but i think i will leave the engine alone until next winter and use the racer during the summer to deside what to change next winter | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | just wanted to show you an action shot from the recent hill climb. check the fluffy dice for indication of cornering speed  wasn't looking at the speedo, but would guess this corner to be around 60mph judging from rpm and gear.  Edited by DotMatrix 28/1/2012 10:46 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | made a bracket to hold the engine steady bar today. hopefully this will fix the problem with the exhaust coming loose in the joins.       Edited by DotMatrix 28/1/2012 10:56 PM | ||
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Posts: 2794 Location: Tamworth/Measham | nice bit of work there mate | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | Dammit! On my way to hill climb today, the water pump let go letting out all the water which made at least one valve stick, which punched a hole in the top of at least one piston, and all quicker than i could tell that anything was wrong while driving. Happened within 2 minutes tops so no racing for me this weekend, but now i have to figure out how to get the car back so i can take the engine out and fix it. Expensive hobby! | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | collected the car with trailer friday, and took the cylinder head off, engine out, took the engine apart and took the damaged piston out. now I need to order parts to fix the car and put the engine in before the 2'nd so that I am ready for the next race. expensive lesson learned      Edited by DotMatrix 28/1/2012 10:58 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | |||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | assembled the engine, put it in and fired it up today and yesterday. luckily it all worked as it should. so now the car is all ready for the race next saturday. the cylinder head have had 8 new valves, 8 new bronze guides, 8 new seats and a skim... so quite an expensive breakdown this. also changed a piston and some piston rings.           Edited by DotMatrix 28/1/2012 11:03 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | I were out racing Saturday the 2'nd of July, and here are a couple of pictures of me, my car and the other cars a fun and very wet day!      Edited by DotMatrix 28/1/2012 11:07 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | mookie - 13/7/2011 9:30 PM very nice pics again. I've planned to do a hillclimb in my Metro next year. Hopefully everything works out as planned I think you should try hill climbing. in denmark at least its the cheapest form of motorsport, and allowes you to talk about cars for a whole day with like-minded people djwilma - 13/7/2011 10:43 PM i always wanted a rally manta, and even the volvo 240 looks good Hows the car running now ? that car used to be a 242 turbo volvo which the guy rolled out into the forest last year, and has now been re-shelled as a 244 turbo, that volvo is just as fast as that manta 400, which is by the way a real manta 400 only not build to group b spec (because it is not allowed within FIA as they are still banned, but build to group 4 spec I believe, but it is also extremely fast, exactly the same times as the volvo up the hill. The car is running fine, maybe a tiny bit better than prior to my latest engine mishap. but I am still going to get it adjusted again by a new SU expert I have found in denmark (the only one in denmark that is able to make special needles I have been told) just need to find a bit more money before doing so but next winter the engine is going out again, I want it to make more power mookie - 13/7/2011 10:51 PM those sporting Manta's and Ascona's are very expensive over here in germany yes. its the only one I have ever seen in denmark, and the ones I can find for sale on mobile.de are very expensive yes, but then again they are comparable to metro 6r4's edit: oh yes, and I broke my stupid quickshift gearstick for the third time now in the same place and missed a training run because of it, so I have to weld that one up again before the next race. luckily it wasn't to far from home this race, so my father came out with a standard one which I quickly switched to. Edited by DotMatrix 13/7/2011 2:36 PM | ||
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Posts: 2794 Location: Tamworth/Measham | Car looks awesome mate | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | Turley_vvc - 13/7/2011 11:29 PM Car looks awesome mate thanks just washed and dried it with a washing cloth the day before, took care to make it cleaner than I usually do before racing, and then it rained | ||
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| Veteran Posts: 415 Location: abroad....good ole germany | DotMatrix - 13/7/2011 11:27 PM I think you should try hill climbing. in denmark at least its the cheapest form of motorsport, and allowes you to talk about cars for a whole day with like-minded people oh I already did a couple of hillclimbs in my Triumph TR6 and my ex BMW 2002tii. Just haven't competed in the last years and the Metro would make an ideal car as the basic shell is quite cheap to get if I crash it btw I wouldn't really compare a Manta 400 to a 6R4 as the Manta was way more common and more of a regular road car than the 6R4. The Manta just got rare because of it being a boy racers car in the 80s early 90s that nobody wanted to be seen dead in. There were endless Manta jokes and even 2 movies which made fun of that car. I had one sometime in the mid 90s which I bought for roughly 40GBP as nobody wanted it and the car was in really good nick, completely original with current mot and no necessary repairs at all, though not a 400 but a 2.0 GT | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | did a bit of work this weekend as I am going racing next weekend, so thought I would repair my broken gearstick (again) and make solid mounts for the rear subframe. all went well (apart from quite a big oil leak I found from one of the gaskets round a drive shaft, but that is to be fixed another weekend )       Edited by DotMatrix 28/1/2012 11:10 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | was out racing this weekend, and my girlfriend took some pictures of me and then I have also attached a couple of pictures of other cars. it was an extremely wet day Sunday. we raced both Saturday and Sunday, Saturday was fun, but only for fun and time was not measured, drove 3x3 laps before something dislocated it self inside the gearbox which did that I could only select 2'nd and neutral which was not optimal, but managed to fix it so I could drive home. in the evening at home I emptied the engine for oil and removed unwanted stuff (a small metal pin from the rocker shaft). Sunday was also a fund day, started with dry weather for the first heat then rained the rest of the day. The first time I threw the clutch at the lights to start up the hill my clutch went, so for the remainder of the day I could only like half disengage the gear, which gave me some quite poor time up the hill. Then later my water-pump gasket popped out giving me a kind of fountain inside the engine bay, but managed to fix that by making a gasket out of duct-tape and liquid gasket that lasted the rest of the day. so all in all a busy weekend. haven't managed to fix my clutch yet, but I suspect that the centre bolt in the clutch and/or the locking shim behind the bolt has dislocated it self, but I will fix it next weekend so that the car can be ready for racing again in 14 days. many joys with old cars               Edited by DotMatrix 28/1/2012 11:14 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | Thanks to both of you | ||
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