Hi, we spoke this morning...

This clang noise, possible spring hitting something? Have a look for witness marks.

im planning on coming down your way sometime soon and taking the scenic route to machynlleth then on up tywyn following the coast then back to dolgoch falls and return to brum.
would be great to meet up and maybe have a mini cruise
the mountain road between the b4518 and machynlleth is maybe my ...

Hi James, that's mine, but in the pic it was my dad's. And yes between us we've had a lot of them.
How did you find it?

I looked into fibre glass wings and bonnets a long time ago. There wasn't/isn't a manufacturer for off the shelf parts. An old mate and I went and got some moulds made up with new old stock wings. The panels turned out to weigh at least as much as the standard steel items. The only bonus is no rust ...

Mr Funk wrote:Where they really?
I always thought bolt ons were okay?

No, they need to bolt through to the hub. Longer bolts, or better still, studs are the way to go.

Fit a lower ET wheel rather than spacers as far as safety is concerned I think, even though IIRC MSA regs allow about an inch spacer.

Those wheel spacers were banned by the MSA for a very good reason, I'd ditch them!

As the car is likely to cover less than 1000 miles a year now going forward and only on sunny Sundays, can anyone recommend a high performance sticky tyre. Not overly fussed on wet weather performance as i'll drive it like my missus when its wet or not at all. 185/60/14


Look at Camskill for ...

DJCarlos wrote:The central locking on my 1988 Scala only works off the driver's door - I thought that was just the way it is!

It is. The drivers door also has a switch in it that powers the vacuum pump. The wires are quite thin, so a possible area to look when there's a fault.

Fuel tank running very low?

Dodgy electrical connection under lateral g? You can try wiggling things while engine is idling.

Thanks Brunty.

Assuming it is just a faulty sender, is there any 'easy' way of measuring the actual water temperature to confirm? What should the temperature be anyway? Haynes says the thermostat is supposed to open at 82C but what does that translate to?

I have a digital thermometer with a probe ...

Could be just a dodgy sender, you can pick them up easy enough from GSF and Euro.


[*]There seems to be a bit of mis-alignment between the crankshaft pulley and the water pump pulley, and the alternator pulley and water pump pulley, whereby the pump pulley seems to be pulling the belt slightly off ...

Probably the wheel bearing.

I have a set of the billet Dynalite Wiwoods with 280mm discs, they're very good :)

Build thread - http://www.sciroccouk.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5

I've done;

1.8 8v on twin weber 40 dcoe carbs. It's quick enough, with a cam and light porting 4 branch and exhaust anyway. And it sounds good. Keeps up with the likes of the Fiesta ST (2.0l 16v 150bhp)
1.8 16v, full race, cams head, bottom end, over 200bhp with twin weber 45s. Very quick (At least ...