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timell wrote:

Yup....as I'm not (quite) in a position to compete with Mark on track, I decided to take him on in at ice cream eating....another fail

you two could give the red kites a run for the money!

Marks being modest. ..I saw him eat at least 7 ...99s

Nick W wrote:Marks being modest. ..I saw him eat at least 7 ...99s

mark went to buy a round of ice creams and when he came back he claims he 'forgot' to buy mine


ate it on the way back more like!!!!!

rich@minispares.com wrote:

App K wrote:Monkey metal spring caps? Surely they can’t be titanium?

alloy shit

i nearly put a set of titaniums on it when i built it, but as the alloy ones where brand new when the head was reconned i thought 'whats the worse that can happen...'

i nearly went full blown dr pepper!

Looking at the top of that valve stem it looks like it’s had a fair bit of hammer, I wonder if you are running those Windsor 1.5 ratio rockers and all the other geometry tweaks you have to do with the 8 port if you got spring crush and unfortunately the only thing that would let go that situation would be the spring cap

rich@minispares.com wrote:as stus video shows, my car was smoking bad, thought it had broke a ring, it was getting worse and worse as the day went on, wouldn't start, felt flat, sounded flat, was getting slower and slower - pretty crap really.


bores are shagged - i can only come to the conclusion is that they where worse than i though when i re rung it

Glad the smokey cat is out of the bag with mission 8 port at last

Does this mean you have the 'Arden talisman of misfortune' currently in your safe keeping for a while.

rich@minispares.com wrote:
you two could give the red kites a run for the money!

Talking of red kites there's a bit of bird action at the start of this video I did of the other runners at the Classic & Vintage. Also there is the amazing bit of lawn mowing by the Surtess TS8.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KuTewea_PA

App K wrote: Looking at the top of that valve stem it looks like it’s had a fair bit of hammer, I wonder if you are running those Windsor 1.5 ratio rockers and all the other geometry tweaks you have to do with the 8 port if you got spring crush and unfortunately the only thing that would let go that situation would be the spring cap

the valves are all brand new, i think its just oil that makes it look worse than it is, this engine has run hard for years with the windsors, they are all modded to suit an arden and the cradles are pinned to the head face, so they are always in the correct place, there was no coil bind or anything like that.

im hoping that it was just a poor top cap

Richspec wrote: Does this mean you have the 'Arden talisman of misfortune' currently in your safe keeping for a while.

im sure it will swing back in your general direction before long rich!

surfblue63 wrote:

rich@minispares.com wrote:
you two could give the red kites a run for the money!

Talking of red kites there's a bit of bird action at the start of this video I did of the other runners at the Classic & Vintage. Also there is the amazing bit of lawn mowing by the Surtess TS8.

Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KuTewea_PA

Thanks again Stu!

I always like watching a bit of bird on bird action

In car of Adam's first timed run from the weekend.

Not the tidiest of runs, but you can't accuse him of not trying

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Sq905W ... e=youtu.be

Finally have 5 minutes.

Well , what an experience 7 hours drizzly rain : Welcome to North Yorkshire!

Lovely day full of unexpected and different:

Hill Climb that goes down hill

Lining up to go off by tim.harber, on Flickr


Team ATCO

Team Atco by tim.harber, on Flickr

This got me aching to see the LightWeight Special in the flesh

SAM_2801 by tim.harber, on Flickr

Saw this strange car of the type that one of my customers has but i have never seen; its a Rochdale that he says looks like an E type . I can see what he means, just about....

Rochdale by tim.harber, on Flickr

Always nice to see a Napier but I have never noticed how basic the fuelling seems to be to each of the 3 rows of cylinders

Napier Bentley by tim.harber, on Flickr

Oh shit , sorry , forgot this was about hillclimbing ....

Absolutely fab day out . Thanks to Mark and all.

brilliant day !

Sorry not been on here for a while, but looks like I missed a good day out! Just spotted this on Facebook, it's apparentl;y not the remnants of Rich's smoke trail it's a new surface being laid down today!

Oh no!

It's the ghosts of engines past!

They could have made it a bit wider!

I'm surprised that they have resurfaced mid-season, surely that is going to be a bit slippery for the next few meetings.

surfblue63 wrote:I'm surprised that they have resurfaced mid-season, surely that is going to be a bit slippery for the next few meetings.

they had intended to do it at the start of the season, but the weather thought otherwise!

Apparently it sticks better in warmer weather & its a special "Motorsport mix" of tarmac, not your usual stuff. Should be sticky straight away.

Looks great I will have to get a car ready for next year.