Lightweight Mk1 'multi use' competition car. Various pics, testing technology

Jon you need one like mine

 

Who made that piece for you Tim?

 

Hi Eddie,

Jim Aitken at http://www.alloyracingfabrications.com/ did my rad and my fuel cell

 

I have see it in the alloy. Excellent craftsmanship on that.

 

Holy thread resurrection batman!
Started getting the mk1 ready for its annual croft sprint easter Monday.
Checked valve clearances, one tight , one marginal.
Checked valve timing and couldn't believe what I found. Exhaust lift on overlap is miles too big!
I take ages setting this up on the engine stand, so not a Scooby doo how I have made a mistake, but its the only feasible explanation.
The inlet cam is driven off the exhaust cam, via the chain, and its lift is spot on...............
So nothing can have moved.
Oh well, whole lot in bits, cams out, manyana
Lash caps can have a few thou tickle to sort the clearances.
And it had to come to bits anyway as the stupid mushroom headed M4's rounded on the inter cam pulley, probably due to too much loctite
With the correct valve timing it may even make 200hp....
Anyway, morale of all this is try not to work alone. When you set something like this, get a third party to verify your settings/measurements....
Jon
If I had got the inlet cam ting wrong mr piston might have said hello to mr valve.....

 

Love the thread title... ( not same car in both pictures )

 

Been out three times in the last couple of months racing on grass. Three class wins. Out again next weekend. Car ready on the trailer now. Fixed my cooling issues, will post a pic, as you will LOL when
you see the set-up I am running.
Jon

 

So where's the pic?

 

LOL, been on hols. Will get something up soon
Jon

 

And I thought I was slow. lol

 

LOL, I know, sorry
Jon

 

And the holidays are over...LOL

 

Been out five times now, 4 class wins and a second.
No excuses, the lad who beat me found a better line round the track. And......in a Vauxhall!
Revenge cometh hopefully.....,
For some reason I cannot find any photographic images on line??? Maybe everybody uses facebook now???
Will keep looking.
Out again 25th
Jon

 

us at otterburn 2014, must have been a quick photographer as we went off the road big style on stage 2!
http://tynemouthmotorclub.co.uk/galleries/members/
Jon