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tautech:

--- Quote from: mansaxel on July 12, 2022, 09:49:31 pm ---
--- Quote from: AVGresponding on July 12, 2022, 10:27:35 am ---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:


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These were the engines where one tops up the fuel and refills the oil tank.

Ending up behind it on the Autobahn is an exercise in blue smoke.

The V6 IIRC was the worst.

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Yep, Pops first Mk4 Zepher kept fouling one plug and mechanic suspected it had a broken ring from new.
Pop flicked it after a year IIRC and brought another one that went just fine unit a swift trip 6 5hr trip home with the bro-inlaw/my uncle up it blew a head gasket and that was the last Ford Pop ever owned.

Only a year or 2 later I started with Fords, Cortina Mk1 wagon, Mk3 sedan 1.6 crossflow, Mk3 sedan 2L OHC and last an Escort Mk2 1.6L Sport before I too learnt my lesson and never brought another.  :horse:

Then almost all vehicle production ceased in NZ so rather than EU stuff NZ mainly sourced from Oz and the land of the rising sun. I went to GM/Aussie Holden after the tragic run with Fords and still have a 2002 Commodore we brought new.
GM lost a lot of followers when they closed their 50+ year old Aussie plants only a year or so back when they were already sending an Aussie developed grunter to the US and UK and since then the Mustang has gained a large foothold and munched on GM's lunch.  :palm:

cyclin_al:

--- Quote from: mnementh on July 11, 2022, 03:27:09 pm ---
--- Quote from: Cerebus on July 11, 2022, 02:44:08 pm ---
--- Quote from: Specmaster on July 11, 2022, 11:51:42 am ---

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On a more serious note. As someone who did quite a lot of messing about in boats in his youth, to me that instinctively looks very top heavy. My guess is if you took that out on anything choppier than a millpond, or leant overboard too far, that thing would be upside down in the blink of an eye.  :scared:
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Yeah, that's why the wheels flip out a la James Bond's TR7 Lotus British rustbox. Too bad these pontoons don't self-deploy like the TR-7's diving planes; I can't see any way to flip up the wheels and attach them without actually standing in the water to do it. The boat needs to be floating, or up on trailer jacks like in the video.   

EDIT:   I bet they make a point of telling you aboot the oars because you're gonna need them.  :-DD

mnem


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Hmmm, I had a totally different perspective as a cyclist.  That thing is huge & heavy.  They actually did mention in the video that it needs the electric assist to climb hills.  I imagine it needs the electric assist just to get moving.  To my mind, there was a distinct lack of detail on battery capacity, bicycle motor power and what the range of that thing is.

I imagine being in the rocky mountains, with 30 km of uphill, the sun is shining on the other side of the mountain, and the next town is in the valley on the other side ... 

vk6zgo:

--- Quote from: bd139 on July 12, 2022, 05:25:45 pm ---
--- Quote from: med6753 on July 12, 2022, 05:24:01 pm ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on July 12, 2022, 05:21:58 pm ---I wouldn’t worry about precision there. They are usually specified to -20% +100%. A 5600uF is fine for the 5000uF

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Of course and I realize that. But anal me insists we be as close as possible.  |O :P :-DD

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Been there. I’ve untrained myself from that way as it was getting expensive  :-DD

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Sounds like the place i worked at, where they had to stop production because they didn't have any 1100 \$\Omega\$ resistors, which were used in a simple CR network with 47uF electros.
They had plenty of 1000 \$\Omega\$ & 1200 \$\Omega\$ ones, though!
I pointed out that the electros were, at best, +or- 20%, but my words fell upon deaf ears!

vk6zgo:

--- Quote from: tautech on July 12, 2022, 10:43:53 pm ---
--- Quote from: mansaxel on July 12, 2022, 09:49:31 pm ---
--- Quote from: AVGresponding on July 12, 2022, 10:27:35 am ---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:


--- End quote ---

These were the engines where one tops up the fuel and refills the oil tank.

Ending up behind it on the Autobahn is an exercise in blue smoke.

The V6 IIRC was the worst.

--- End quote ---
Yep, Pops first Mk4 Zepher kept fouling one plug and mechanic suspected it had a broken ring from new.
Pop flicked it after a year IIRC and brought another one that went just fine unit a swift trip 6 5hr trip home with the bro-inlaw/my uncle up it blew a head gasket and that was the last Ford Pop ever owned.

Only a year or 2 later I started with Fords, Cortina Mk1 wagon, Mk3 sedan 1.6 crossflow, Mk3 sedan 2L OHC and last an Escort Mk2 1.6L Sport before I too learnt my lesson and never brought another.  :horse:

Then almost all vehicle production ceased in NZ so rather than EU stuff NZ mainly sourced from Oz and the land of the rising sun. I went to GM/Aussie Holden after the tragic run with Fords and still have a 2002 Commodore we brought new.
GM lost a lot of followers when they closed their 50+ year old Aussie plants only a year or so back when they were already sending an Aussie developed grunter to the US and UK and since then the Mustang has gained a large foothold and munched on GM's lunch.  :palm:

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GM are turds----the megalomaniacs in Detroit just had to micromanage GMH to death!
The only way you will buy a GM car in OZ these days is via an unofficial importer.

med6753:

--- Quote from: mnementh on July 12, 2022, 07:21:44 pm ---
--- Quote from: TERRA Operative on July 12, 2022, 03:45:48 pm ---
--- Quote from: mnementh on July 12, 2022, 03:21:19 pm ---I did try to get by with "cherry bomb" glass-packs cuz quick and easy and tidy; but I knew at the time I was bending the pipes I'd probably have to refit with shorty canister mufflers and I was right. The exhaust note just crackled and popped, while the shorty canister mufflers had a delicious burble at idle that turned into a nice throaty rumble under load that never popped or blatted. I was quite pleased with myself on that job.

mnem
*toddles off to do something productive for a change*

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I do like a smooth exhaust note, and hate the buzz and crackle.
But, nothing beats the sound of a supercharger. :D




I do still miss that car.. (fkn boosted 4-cyl rice burners!)
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I've had a lot of fun in huffed and squirted rice-rockets... but every last one of 'em sounded like a pissed off bumblebee. ;)

mnem
Until you hit the fast-gas... then they sound like a pissed-off bumblebee on crack. :-DD

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Even though I drive a rice burner (stock exhaust thank you very much) those with most custom exhausts do sound like an angry bumblebee. There is nothing like the sound of a V-8....especially ones cammed out so they spit and rumble at idle.

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