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| Neomys Sapiens:
--- Quote from: tautech on July 11, 2022, 10:36:26 pm --- --- Quote from: mnementh on July 11, 2022, 10:18:10 pm --- --- Quote from: tautech on July 11, 2022, 10:06:27 pm --- --- Quote from: mnementh on July 11, 2022, 09:48:46 pm --- mnem Still 10x the car as my Mk1 Capri, tho. :P --- End quote --- :-- Which motor mnem ? --- End quote --- The little Cologne V4; what were they, a 1500...? 1300...? Ghahhh. :palm: Can you believe I scratch-built headers for that fuxxoring little automotive backbirth? I thought it'd be just like my Cologne-V6 Spitfire project, only more room to work. Well that part was true... every time I'd swing a wrench, my elbow would go through some new rust spot. |O mnem "The gift that keeps on giving..." --- End quote --- Oh that V4 dog, yep :-- It was a 2/3rds version of the 3l V6 which many also thought were a puss bucket but they went good with the std twin throat Webber and the 3l Capri is still a sought after model as they were quite a rocket ship in their day. Pop had a Mk4 Zepher with the 3l innit and probably the first set of wheels I did the ton in way the fuck back in the 70’s. :o --- End quote --- If anything, then the 2.8i, but still no. |
| Cubdriver:
--- Quote from: xrunner on July 11, 2022, 11:14:21 pm ---That's a good picture, I might be able to use that. I'm thinking of some clear laser adhesive paper I think I had for another project. Should be able to run it through Gimp magic tools and come up with something useful. I'll post something if I succeed. --- End quote --- A better photo of the sliding side cover, taken with the DSLR instead of the phone: -Pat |
| tggzzz:
--- Quote from: bd139 on July 12, 2022, 06:39:15 am --- --- Quote from: Robert763 on July 12, 2022, 06:32:32 am --- --- Quote from: bd139 on July 12, 2022, 05:17:30 am ---Oh joy. Woke up at 5:30 AM thanks to siren action. Someone outside managing to get mangled on an e-scooter. At least get mangled after 7AM ffs :palm: --- End quote --- Rental or personal (illegal) scooter? They are getting bad around here and police dont seem to be doing much. In theory it's driving without (or otherwises than in accordance with) a licence and without insurance. --- End quote --- Personal one. Bastard was riding on the pavement and got T-boned by a car coming out of a side junction. Which didn’t stop, probably because there was no chance in perusing a claim :-DD --- End quote --- And every chance of losing a No Claims Discount due the accident with an uninsured driver. |
| AVGresponding:
--- Quote from: bd139 on July 11, 2022, 07:06:10 pm ---For reference: Lotus: will get nicked. TR7: garage around it is more likely to get nicked. --- End quote --- That was then, this is now. https://www.carandclassic.com/list/41/tr7/ --- Quote from: mnementh on July 11, 2022, 07:23:14 pm --- --- Quote from: AVGresponding on July 11, 2022, 05:08:55 pm --- --- Quote from: mnementh on July 11, 2022, 03:27:09 pm ---Yeah, that's why the wheels flip out a la James Bond's TR7. Too bad these pontoons don't self-deploy like the TR-7's diving planes; mnem --- End quote --- Dear mnem - This is a Lotus Esprit S1: And this is a Triumph TR7: Now go and sit in the corner and think about what you've done. --- End quote --- I have: Aside from the fact neither car could keep the water out to save its owner's life, at least Wet Nellie had an excuse for the fact the operator had to wear SCUBA gear. Also... I wish it were me who bought the car for $100 after it'd been lost to a forgotten storage unit in Long Island... mnem ...just so I could sell it. --- End quote --- At least the body won't have rusted... --- Quote from: mnementh on July 11, 2022, 10:18:10 pm --- --- Quote from: tautech on July 11, 2022, 10:06:27 pm --- --- Quote from: mnementh on July 11, 2022, 09:48:46 pm --- mnem Still 10x the car as my Mk1 Capri, tho. :P --- End quote --- Which motor mnem ? --- End quote --- The little Cologne V4; what were they, a 1500...? 1300...? Ghahhh. :palm: Can you believe I scratch-built headers for that fuxxoring little automotive backbirth? I thought it'd be just like my Cologne-V6 Spitfire project, only more room to work. Well that part was true... every time I'd swing a wrench, my elbow would go through some new rust spot. |O mnem "The gift that keeps on giving..." --- End quote --- Depends which V4. The Taunus V4 went from 1.2 to 1.7 litres. The Essex V4 was either 1.7 or 2.0 litres. I've no idea without researching, what might have been fitted to US market Capris. Considering the shoehorning that Triumph had to do to fit the 2.0 litre straight six into the Spitfire chassis to make the GT6, it's no surprise that only someone of supreme pig-headed stubbornness would attempt to do it with a V6 lump. :popcorn: --- Quote from: tautech on July 11, 2022, 10:36:26 pm ---Oh that V4 dog, yep :-- It was a 2/3rds version of the 3l V6 which many also thought were a puss bucket but they went good with the std twin throat Webber and the 3l Capri is still a sought after model as they were quite a rocket ship in their day. Pop had a Mk4 Zepher with the 3l innit and probably the first set of wheels I did the ton in way the fuck back in the 70’s. :o --- End quote --- From what you're saying, you guys got the Essex V4s and V6s. They're a bit different in design from the Taunus/Cologne units, not just in displacement, mostly in the timing gear and some other ancillaries (literally a gear on the Essex). |
| tautech:
--- Quote from: AVGresponding on July 12, 2022, 10:27:35 am --- --- Quote from: tautech on July 11, 2022, 10:36:26 pm ---Oh that V4 dog, yep :-- It was a 2/3rds version of the 3l V6 which many also thought were a puss bucket but they went good with the std twin throat Webber and the 3l Capri is still a sought after model as they were quite a rocket ship in their day. Pop had a Mk4 Zepher with the 3l innit and probably the first set of wheels I did the ton in way the fuck back in the 70’s. :o --- End quote --- From what you're saying, you guys got the Essex V4s and V6s. They're a bit different in design from the Taunus/Cologne units, not just in displacement, mostly in the timing gear and some other ancillaries (literally a gear on the Essex). --- End quote --- AFAIK the V4's we got in NZ were 2 and 3L and same bore/stoke etc. Early Mk4 Zephers had a 2.5L V6 and the Zodiac version the 3L and twin throat Weber but the last of them were all 3L and twin throats like the one Pop had. The V4's were in the Mk1 Transhit vans too but they were dumped when the Mk2 was released and the little better 2L OHC fitted but with a single throat carbie. :horse: A buddy after suffering 100k miles with the 2L OHC in his Transhit Mk2 hauled it and all its running gear out and fitted a new 302W crate motor and IIRC C4 BW auto and customed Ford 9" running on LPG and the darn thing lasted him another 20 yrs with the 302W just ticking away with no idea it was ever working. Although he never flogged it, it earned its keep and pulled like a 4th former....I know as I did several 6hr each way trips away with him on hunting and fishing trips. IIRC he sold it soon after it's only major repair....a steering box at half a million KM. :o Funny as hell actually, a Transit was his first work hack and now some 40 yrs on a modern TD Transit is his new work hack with only Hiace vans of one model or another filling the in between years. |
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