Six Cylinders Motoring Notes

[mitsisigma01]

A Ginetta G12 team Autoshite race car🤞🏽

[catsinthewelder]

Is it the CX?

[Zelandeth]

That recessed headlight bowl at that angle seems really familiar and I feel that I really ought to know it...but I'm just going round in circles without getting anywhere near any certainty.

Initially thought Triumph GT6, but the bonnet bulge is missing and the nose isn't pointy enough.

 

[Mrs6C]

12 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

That recessed headlight bowl at that angle seems really familiar and I feel that I really ought to know it...but I'm just going round in circles without getting anywhere near any certainty.

Initially thought Triumph GT6, but the bonnet bulge is missing and the nose isn't pointy enough.

 

Two cylinders short and the wrong colour!

Not a clue, BTW...

[Christine]

The Smartie  tube  lid does have an L on it , dunnit ?....  or is it a R ?   4  Rochdale.?

[Zelandeth]

5 minutes ago, Mrs6C said:

Two cylinders short and the wrong colour!

Not a clue, BTW...

Hmm... Really hard as you don't know what's actual contour Vs how the cover is sitting.

MGB V8?

[LightBulbFun]

9 minutes ago, Mrs6C said:

Two cylinders short and the wrong colour!

Not a clue, BTW...

the E Type?

[Christine]

Are the front wings removed ?

[Six-cylinder]

8 minutes ago, Christine said:

Are the front wings removed ?

No, everything is as it left the factory.

[Six-cylinder]

As some may know I have had a few problems getting my Trevi to start, good spark from the coil, poor/no spark at the plug leads. Well today I took advice from a man with a 1100, gave it a dam good thrashing with a stick and drove home in it!

[richardmorris]

I see the door has a quality* repair with almost the right colour duct tape.

[Six-cylinder]

7 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

I see the door has a quality* repair with almost the right colour duct tape.

I did instruct the garage to use silver duct tape.

There are doors for me waiting in Holland, my problem is I can't remember from who it has been so long since I agreed to buy them!

 

[loserone]

Tyre is on its way South.  Drive safe, @Talbot

[egg]

How the FoD barn build going? 

[High Jetter]

Is it an Trevor?

[beko1987]

28 minutes ago, loserone said:

Tyre is on its way South.  Drive safe, @Talbot

Your talking about the man who boasted during a sales pitch of getting a 2.0hdi to only do 20mpg...

[richardmorris]

29 minutes ago, egg said:

How the FoD barn build going? 

Have you seen the Amish barn building in witness?

[Mrs6C]

10 minutes ago, egg said:

How the FoD barn build going? 

Slowly but surely. We now have the first set of Northamptonshire arches!

They were completed yesterday for the cowshed. The stacks of grey blocks inside the archways are there to hold up the frames for the wooden formers. The blocks, frames and formers will be stay in place for another week or so to let the lime mortar cure enough. The brickwork on the cowshed front wall will go up to the height of the bricks on the left hand side pillar. This will be the height of the roof eaves for the cowshed. The eaves on the main barn will be a bit higher.

I made the wooden formers in two halves, so they slot together in the middle, one nested inside the other. This lets them be adjusted slightly as needed, to accommodate any variation in archway width away from the intended 10', without losing the symmetry of the arch.

 

 

 

[puddlethumper]

Nice bit of form making there @Mrs6C.

[Zelandeth]

Glad she's running again...has this improved the missfire as well?  Though the idle mixture may be a country mile out from me trying to adjust it when the ignition system was actually to blame...yes I do feel suitably stupid for not thoroughly checking that first.

[Mrs6C]

4 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

Glad she's running again...has this improved the missfire as well?  Though the idle mixture may be a country mile out from me trying to adjust it when the ignition system was actually to blame...yes I do feel suitably stupid for not thoroughly checking that first.

It seems to have behaved on the drive home, though Six-cylinder decided not to push his luck and drive it anywhere else! I expect it will go out for a longer shakedown run tomorrow before being put away in the barn.

[hairnet]

blimey!!!!!

ps how much for the merc

 

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, Mrs6C said:

Slowly but surely. We now have the first set of Northamptonshire arches!

They were completed yesterday for the cowshed. The stacks of grey blocks inside the archways are there to hold up the frames for the wooden formers. The blocks, frames and formers will be stay in place for another week or so to let the lime mortar cure enough. The brickwork on the cowshed front wall will go up to the height of the bricks on the left hand side pillar. This will be the height of the roof eaves for the cowshed. The eaves on the main barn will be a bit higher.

I made the wooden formers in two halves, so they slot together in the middle, one nested inside the other. This lets them be adjusted slightly as needed, to accommodate any variation in archway width away from the intended 10', without losing the symmetry of the arch.

 

 

 

I love your arches

[chaseracer]

2 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Have you seen the Amish barn building in witness?

Nothing like that, then...? 😁

[Tadhg Tiogar]

3 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Have you seen the Amish barn building in witness?

...only, this one's made of brick.

[Zelandeth]

Good good.  Hope she continues to behave.  As I said at the time I dropped the car back off, drives absolutely lovely aside from that miss.  Can absolutely see the appeal and why among the folks who actually know the cars they're so well liked.  Crying shame Lancias in general rusted so badly as every one I've been in has been both a cracking drive and really comfy car to be a passenger in.

That brickwork on those arches looks great, not often you see that sort of detailing on new builds!

[bobdisk]

11 hours ago, Six-cylinder said:

As some may know I have had a few problems getting my Trevi to start, good spark from the coil, poor/no spark at the plug leads. Well today I took advice from a man with a 1100, gave it a dam good thrashing with a stick and drove home in it!

I read somewhere recently that there were some dud rotor arms around causing this. Cant remember what make the dizzy is, its a black plastic arm with a pin holding the connector in. the plastic goes conductive, and spark gets lost. Replace with a red plastic one, with the connector moulded in. 

[Christine]

Triumph TR8

[NorfolkNWeigh]

14 hours ago, Mrs6C said:

Two cylinders short and the wrong colour!

Not a clue, BTW...

You say, not a clue ...

But does it also have 2 more seats and penned in a different Torinese studio? 

[Tigerfox]

Clan Crusader