Six Cylinders Motoring Notes - a Workshop Day Today

[Six-cylinder]

9 hours ago, Andyrew said:

Is the yellow shell donating it's floor to the gt or do you have new panels ?

Yes, the welder will fabricate or cut out repair sections from the yellow Visa shell as he thinks is best. We do have new outer sills for it.

[Six-cylinder]

9 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

So the Trevi is IE, not a carb one then

We believe it started life as an IE and had fancy carbs fitted. We bought it without the fancy carbs, just a standard Beta carb. We owned a 2.0 carb HPE in the past and were always pleased with its performance so I am quite happy to run it like that.

We do need a throttle cable for it to suit a standard carb. 

The pictures show the twins it had been running and the single it has now.

[Mrs6C]

^^^ Should add that the Trevi starts and runs quite happily and was driven into the barn. One tail-light had a FTP but both reversing lamps work!

[Mrs6C]

3 hours ago, beko1987 said:

That's the main reason I didn't volunteer this weekend, I've got the kids, and Charlie's already got a mega cough, we're not even going out to our favourite place this weekend

 

Looks like the FoD after SF16!!!

[flat4alfa]

2 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

We do need a throttle cable for it to suit a standard carb

Will take a look in my crates of bits

Or I could introduce you to Mark Wastnidge of the Beta Boys, If you don’t know of already 

[Six-cylinder]

4 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

Will take a look in my crates of bits

Or I could introduce you to Mark Wastnidge of the Beta Boys, If you don’t know of already 

Yes please and yes please.

I need a throttle cable now, but I am sure I will need other parts in the future as we intend to return it to the road.

[Six-cylinder]

Today I collected the VP 1500 start motor from Andyrew who had it rebuilt though his work. This is an old car so straight forward to fit once I had checked the photos I had taken of which wire went where. Still took some cranking and I even had to add the jump pack to get it spinning faster, but in the end it did fire and ran sweetly once the choke was not needed.

[LightBulbFun]

36 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

Today I collected the VP 1500 from Andyrew who had it rebuilt though his work

the entire Car?! think I can have him do REV?

(I assume you meant to say VP 1500 starter motor!)

happy to see the VP is back up and running  

[Six-cylinder]

6 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

the entire Car?! think I can have him do REV?

(I assume you meant to say VP 1500 starter motor!)

happy to see the VP is back up and running  

It would have been useful if he had done the whole car!

[richardmorris]

31 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

 

happy to see the VP is back up and running  

Lunatic

[LightBulbFun]

3 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Lunatic

I thought that fact about me was well established by now!

[richardmorris]

2 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

I thought that fact about me was well established by now!

What i find particularly unforgivable about the VP is that in order to use the rear picnic tables you have to either be a midget child or get out of the car to raise them up, then limbo under them to get back in.

[LightBulbFun]

2 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

What i find particularly unforgivable about the VP is that in order to use the rear picnic tables you have to either be a midget child or get out of the car to raise them up, then limbo under them to get back in.

I just hope some day I get a chance to have a drive of it

im quite eager to try out a properly manual car with none of this fly by wire nonsense, now that i have some proper driving experience  

(im especially interested to see what the clutch control will be like since I wont have any sort of ECU idle compensation or what have you!)

[Tadhg Tiogar]

21 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

What i find particularly unforgivable about the VP is that in order to use the rear picnic tables you have to either be a midget child or get out of the car to raise them up, then limbo under them to get back in.

Alternatively you could try sliding the front seats forward...

[richardmorris]

28 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Alternatively you could try sliding the front seats forward...

A midget driver?

[Mrs6C]

3 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

A midget driver?

It's an early in-built safety feature, to prevent the car being driven at the same time as there are people having a picnic in the rear! They might spill their drinks or drop a sandwich and distract the driver, thereby leading to an accident...

[Six-cylinder]

On 11/29/2019 at 6:06 PM, richardmorris said:

Oh if you were looking for a tyre place for the clk for me don’t worry. I don’t have to borrow it.

Probably a good call not to borrow it as the puncture turned out to be a tiny crack.

I took it to an independent one man firm who has been doing tyres all his life and he has a man who will repair it. 

I just don't think I would have got that kind of knowledge or service from a tyre chain.

The car is now on its space saver. 

[richardmorris]

Perhaps I can have another attempt in the spring when it's proper convertible weather? 

Did the guy say what's caused it - has it hit something?

[BL Bloke]

Having owned a couple myself back in the 90's I'm pleased to see that the VP 1500 is back to working order again. ?

[Six-cylinder]

Xantia is now on its way for a secondhand gearbox to be fitted.

 

[hairnet]

Buy his truck off him

[Mrs6C]

5 hours ago, hairnet said:

Buy his truck off him

It is rather nice, though...

[hairnet]

you need xm to go with it

or 450sel

[richardmorris]

15 minutes ago, hairnet said:

you need xm to go with it

or 450sel

I do want a 450SEL 6.9, but sadly don’t have an oil well to keep it supplied.

He has the XM, which is very comfortable.

[hairnet]

1 minute ago, richardmorris said:

I do want a 450SEL 6.9, but sadly don’t have an oil well to keep it supplied.

He has the XM, which is very comfortable.

v6 cough (have been chauffeurred in his 2.0?)

 

[richardmorris]

5 hours ago, hairnet said:

Buy his truck off him

It would be very useful. He could loan it out when not using it. Xantia still up en-pointe I see.

[richardmorris]

1 minute ago, hairnet said:

v6 cough (have been chauffeurred in his 2.0?)

 

It is a 2 litre, the v6 Xms are / were lovely. Sadly only the LHD got Diravi steering like the cx.

[hairnet]

irrelevant when you are chiracing it in the back

 

[anonymous user]

Less Chirac in the back, more Ronin in the front 

[Mrs6C]

27 minutes ago, anonymous user said:

Less Chirac in the back, more Ronin in the front 

We have Jay for that!