clocks ticking !!

[Steve Kerswell]

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 around getting progressively more patchworked as time goes on. Want it on the road by April so that I can get some miles on it before the Stoneleigh trip. The Sierra is running fine, I have plans, but nothing that cannot wait. I'm still thinking of cutting my losses and binning it, yet tomorrow I may feel like finishing it, who knows and who cares? So, come on whats what and who is going where?  Plus I got a Pinto and box to rebuild, just remembered that !

[Steve Kerswell]

Plympton, Colebrook, Lee moor, Cadover, Burrator, Shaugh Prior, Bickleigh, Roborough Down and Home. Only be 5 minutes love :-) forgot it was Mothers Day, much brownie points lost but many smiles on me. Your lunch is in the dog.

[Steve Kerswell]

As for having to take the long route, its a 5 mile walk to Alans tuning empire. Took me 25 miles to get home, Found an awesome short cut :-))

[Steve Kerswell]

A very long conversation with him this morning, it would take an hour to write it all up, basically I wont get any more but will use a lot less fuel and hope to gain mid range after all who uses all of it high up in the rev range? My friends RB running Pinto and bike carbs is now awesome, you know when you rev up and do a double blip to get it up there, not with his, its straight there 1000-7000 zip. I want, I want :-))

[Adrian Southgate]

Bet that was a real nuisance Steve  having to take the long route...

Be good to see what result you get with smaller carbs. Sorry for the thread hijack while you were out...

[Steve Kerswell]

B+ all safely back home and tucked away. Had to take the long way home seeing it is going so well. Going back next week for a final fettle once I change the carbs back.

[rob saul]

You can have a strip on there

it just wasn't designed to have one

can look a bit smarter with a strip fitted but if fitted correctly and equally you hardly notice the sealent

If you do fit a strip most are manufactured for a specific screen and the general purpose ones don't go round the Dutton screen too well in one but the is a "component " cut to fit kit out there but looks a bit "bitty"

horses for courses

[rob saul]

Hi Adrian not had any internet for a couple of months,since Caterham went pop been on the south coast doing stuff for red bull an my super duper phone went pop the other month an not had a chance to get sorted yet,this is only the third day I have had off from Jan 2nd !

My boy,s back in Norfolk an keeps me updated now and again when he can drag himself away from the x box !

If you do order new screens I would be interested as both my spares are second hand but one thing that it needs is a bonding strip

If you look at all modern bonded screens you will see a black coating on the underside about an inch wide. This serves 2 purposes 1st it acts as a UV shield for the sealant but more importantly it acts as an etched surface for the sealant.

you can get your friendly window fitter to apply it to a plain screen but its nowhere as good as the manufacture applied coating

Fitting the screen looks REALLY simple to do-it isn't !,pay a few quid and have a pro do it

No trim strip needed,should be about 4mm gap all the way round with the sealant smoothed out

For some strange reason you see lots of cars with the screen too high up against the GRP at the top

One or two early cars about with slightly twisted screen frames before Dutton started bonding in the steel bar most cars have

P.S don't know anything about the purple Leg or its stable mate so didn't bother to get my boy to reply

[Dave Adams]

mine also has a rubber seal glued into the screen from the out side.

[Steve Kerswell]

Nephew says they have moved on to modular sealants like this,http://uksealants.co.uk/fix-all-high-tack-ms-polymer--p128.html and it works very well.

[Steve Kerswell]

Always been a problem in the marine industry. Gel coat to glass. Silkaflex designed a sealant for it, see if I can find out what number it goes by.