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4 coil overs

a set of 4 coil overs at 130lb rears and 180 fronts ...just about perfect for our cars.......

Hello again everyone,

Thankfully, my last rallysprint in the 205 went pretty well. No car-conifer interactions this time at least. This means that instead of having to beat the kinks out of a yellow French hatchback, I've been free to spend a wee bit of time on the Phaeton.

I think at the time of my last posting I had got the replacement engine fitted and left it there. And indeed there it stayed for a few weeks, however I've began building it up this very week.…

Hope this will be of interest to some of you, especially those who took the time to share their experience to help me out.  A quick recap.  I bought an S3 Phaeton in Autumn last year that was running, with MOT and a good basic spec.  Probably paid too much but I wanted a runner to work on rather than the B+ Malaga sat in bits.

Spec; 1700 crossflow, twin 40 Dellortos, BCF2 cam, Bosch electronic distributor, Type 9 box, 5 link axle with rose joints, Gaz adjustable dampers.…

my pinto has a motorcraft ignition amplifier and i think its dead, any one got one spare? from a sierra or transit?

My mate bought an alloy sump for his fast pinto, it leaked :-) However help was on hand, we borrowed an AC tig set and I have spent a pleasant afternoon down in his pit welding his sump in position. Pleased to say, I've still got the touch, no more leaks. I have radiation burns on my forearms and neck because I only had a tee shirt and forgot the tig gloves :-(. Smell a bit sumpy oil as well. Plus I'm pretty grimy. All good fun in a kit car builders life.

A sign in a local pub for you lot to decipher its in the local dialect...

it names the local radio station and a very popular drink (American company..)

First successful trip to Stoneleigh after the series 3 Phaeton rebuild. Longest run to date and apart from a few improvements the car was faultless!  

So. I've been rally driving a little over a year now. Had a mate who was semi-retired from the scene but didn't want to part with his car once and for all, so he'd been hiring it to me for a very reasonable rate. But most informal arrangements of this sort tend to come to a messy end, so I was kinda half prepared to have to end up buying it after all or lose out on it altogether.

Irritatingly, I kept spare cash and driveway space for the day that never came, to the point…

Coming out of Cornwall today several trailers with sports cars, one was a stripped out Phaeton with no screen and huge minilites with slicks, looked very tidy. Must have been a Sprint or hillclimb somewhere close.

seats

these are in cambourne, might be useful to someone.

Really want to get started with the B type but we are still waiting for a valid logbook :'(

Hopefully will be soon as we wanted it ready for the summer but its just a waiting game now i guess!

Its Friday the 13th. Spring is here. So what plans do yo have for your Dutton(s)? I cannot believe how fast time is passing, evenings are drawing out and morning is light about 6ish, I think I need every available hour to get on top of every thing Dutton related. The B+ is up and running and hopefully will fly through the MOT next week, tomorrow its on the rolling road at the local engine builders, he owes me, so hopefully he will play OK. I may have to leave the paintwork and just drive it…

Took the Saab for its MOT today, flew through with no advisories (again!) MOT man recons he ain't ever going to get rich off me. Wait until I bring the Sierra down. He laughed and said he still cannot believe I am still driving that thing around when you have this Saab, Yeah, bring it down, April 1st. would be good, I can give it to one of the others to test :-)) He'll do it for nothing if it passes, hand shake, deal done.

As many of you may know, my son was/is very ill, so a quick update to all who ask. He is now stable and breathing on his own. They put a drain in his chest and removed 1.5 litres of infected fluid. The jury is still out about what caused the infection, but the surgeon commander has hinted that it looks like an infection from a nasty little bug he may have swallowed while surfing or swimming in tropical waters, Kenya, Maldives etc. He is now sat up and talking, but mainly sleeping. The…

Had a smoulder today under the bonnet, my fault, to many other things on my mind at present. Wires from alternator hit the 4 branch and melted through into a blobby mess. Trouble is a few things went haywire too, So my question is: 12 volt feed to lamp, lamp to small terminal on alternator, then big wire from alternator onto starter solenoid live side?? I only have one big wire from my alternator, well thats all I can find. HELP.

This is claimed as a Tiger supper 6........

But i think that a 1977 registration on a modern car would be difficult to get these days, so what is it actually registered as?