It's been a while, so I guess it
must be time for an update. First off, the BMW E21 has been sold and
replaced with a Suzuki Bandit 600 as I couldn't justify having two cars,
but it does mean that I can now travel over the Severn bridge for free
when I take the bike.
The GT6 has been behaving itself and I have managed to find someone fairly local to me who can do TIG welding
with a quick turn around, so having decided how I want to run the inlet
pipes into the airbox, they have now welded the the pipes in position.
About an hour was spent smoothing out the internal welds on
the pipes as much as I dare. Due to the angles of the pipes onto the box
it was not possible to weld all the way around them externally.
It has been suggested to me that the airbox should have more holes in it to allow air to pass through it and back to atmosphere. The idea being that a free flow of air through it prevents the air stalling.
The next job will be to modify and fit the air filter assembly, which will sit below the radiator. To give me enough room to do this I will have to re-route one of the coolant pipes and replace it with an alloy pipe instead of rubber hose.
One of the problems I have is that I am too easily distracted by other jobs I would like to do on the car, so I have to keep on reminding myself what I really need to do next. In no particular order, I would like to:
make a restrictor to go in the swirl pot outlet
have more front castor
reduce front track width
fit the extra door seals around the bottom edges of the doors
fit a rear fog lamp and switch rescued from my old Dolomite
wire in a cigarette lighter socket
re-veneer the dash
fabricate or find another windscreen wash bottle
replace overdrive rear oil seal
It has been suggested to me that the airbox should have more holes in it to allow air to pass through it and back to atmosphere. The idea being that a free flow of air through it prevents the air stalling.
The next job will be to modify and fit the air filter assembly, which will sit below the radiator. To give me enough room to do this I will have to re-route one of the coolant pipes and replace it with an alloy pipe instead of rubber hose.
One of the problems I have is that I am too easily distracted by other jobs I would like to do on the car, so I have to keep on reminding myself what I really need to do next. In no particular order, I would like to:
make a restrictor to go in the swirl pot outlet
have more front castor
reduce front track width
fit the extra door seals around the bottom edges of the doors
fit a rear fog lamp and switch rescued from my old Dolomite
wire in a cigarette lighter socket
re-veneer the dash
fabricate or find another windscreen wash bottle
replace overdrive rear oil seal
Yesterday was the 2012
Standard Triumph Marque Day at Prescott hill climb circuit so I went
along for the day, doing a couple of hours marshalling incoming traffic
to the car parks and then onto the hill for a few runs. I had two and a
half runs at the hill as on my first attempt the hill had to be closed
after a TVR had an accident further up, probably quite an expensive day
for someone.
It was my first go at something like this, so I took it fairly steady, but still gave it as much as I dared when I could.
Thanks to AndyGT6 for these next two pictures and further below should be some video I took of my two complete runs up the hill.
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