Six Cylinders Motoring Notes - what is planned for 2025

[Six-cylinder]

I dropped my old X1/9's plate into DVLA - G234 GMS. SORN since 2009...

 

Wonder where it's lurking. It has been crashed at least twice since I had it

 

Do you have a picture?

[RichardK]

I haven't even seen it since 1996, when I tried to buy it back from S&I Thompson in Gala. I know it was extant in the Scottish X1/9 club circles, and I heard after the crash/repair when I saw it, someone rolled and repaired it! But that's 2000 - 2009 suggests it survived a good time.

 

It was a blue GF. No stickers, spoiler the right way around. Loved it!

[Six-cylinder]

I took the Sovereign S2 shopping this morning and needed to put petrol in it, it has been used for local journeys this week 3 to 15 miles. Anybody want to guess mpg?

[hairnet]

12

[MorrisItalSLX]

13 mpg is what I get from mine doing town driving

[SiC]

15... But not sure if smiles per gallon or gallons per smile

FTFY

[holbeck]

9

[dollywobbler]

10.126.

[richardmorris]

6

[Supernaut]

5

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

I'l lgo for 8.32659787414 (ish)  - and even half that TOTALLY worth it

[dougiefourspeed]

70.1

[RobT]

At a previous FoD meet Mrs Cyl said it was running rich again, so I'll say 7.

 

Think the best I ever got out of it was 15 (with a blanked off, broken AED).

[Six-cylinder]

At a previous FoD meet Mrs Cyl said it was running rich again, so I'll say 7.

 

Think the best I ever got out of it was 15 (with a blanked off, broken AED).

 

14.3 mpg is the answer.

 

The AED is fixed but the mixture has not been leaned off which probably explains why the last XJ6 S2 I ran did 16 mpg.

 

I won't be taking it Cholmondeley!

[RobT]

That's good for local trips. Might crack 20 on a run to Chodmongley!

[richardmorris]

14.3 mpg is the answer.

 

The AED is fixed but the mixture has not been leaned off which probably explains why the last XJ6 S2 I ran did 16 mpg.

 

I won't be taking it Cholmondeley!

 

That's not bad. Well it, is, but it's not Oliver reed and Richard Burton having a party levels of drinking.

[Six-cylinder]

I was always disappointed that the last one I had only did 16-17 mpg, I always felt from road tests it should have managed 18-20 mpg. I owned it for 11 years and used to attend car show a fair distance from home so it got some runs, but always 16 point something mpg. 

[richardmorris]

Now that's nice. I do like big coupes.

[dollywobbler]

I like how close the number plate is to the last E-Type... HDU 555N.

[Six-cylinder]

Now that's nice. I do like big coupes.

 

I also owned a couple of W114 280CE, the black one was in 1994 between a Vauxhall Carton and Citroen Xantia company cars and the white one when I left the Citroen dealer at the end of 1996. I ran the white one as my everyday car until 2000 when I bought a W124 300CE.

[Six-cylinder]

I like how close the number plate is to the last E-Type... HDU 555N.

 

The XJ6C was the 60th RHD one produced.

 

I have just checked and it ran out of tax May 2001, that does not look good for its survival. I sold it in 2000 at a classic auction and it was a decent running car.

[Six-cylinder]

A long time ago my 1984 Citroen CX 2400 I/E Pallas decided not to start, after much trying it back fired and caught fire! I managed to get the fire out with some damage done. After replacing some obviously damaged parts such as the HT leads, I then got in an auto electrician to find out why I had no spark (the reason for the fire). He diagnosed the coil, but it has taken me 2 years to find a second hand one (from Holland). A new coil is 322 Euros plus postage from Germany. I called the auto elect to come and fit it but he never turned up, that was in May.   

 

An auto electrician I used to use, but who went to work for a Porsche specialist became available for private work again.  I asked him to take over and today was the great day he had agreed to work on the CX. The replacement was wired in and we had a spark. Then we had no fuel, that turned out to be a broken earth on the fuel pump relay and it now starts.

 

The next problem is the throttle cable is fire damaged and seized solid. The coil which is very hard to get to needs fitting properly. The new HT leads have been nibbled by a mouse. Then the replacement bonnet I have painted and fitted. Then who knows what else for the MOT as the car has been parked up for 6 years.

[Six-cylinder]

One step forward, two backwards!

 

My E-Type would not start when I went to get it out for MOT in the spring and I could not see why in spite of doing all the usual stuff. In the end I lost a small copper washer that is used on the wire HT lead that screw into the distributor cap. The car has sat because I have been too busy to attend to it, but today was its lucky day I fitted the new HT washer and it started straight up, even the SU fuel pump worked without a tap.

 

The bad news is the front carburettor is peeing fuel, but not the shut off valve as there is no fuel in the bowl. I think it is between the bowl and carb. Add to this it has a rusted out leaking core plug, which is inlet manifold off job.

 

More for the too do list.

[richardmorris]

Core plug looks like a pain to do. Steel pipes on the cx probably ok, but I'd expect a couple of the low pressure rubber returns to have perished.

[Six-cylinder]

Don't you hate BMWs!

 

Mrs 6C's 330Ci has been sat since at least last year, put the jump pack on it and it started straight up. Three out of four tyres were flat, but pumped up so I took it for a drive round the yard where it is kept.

[holbeck]

What I love about your fleet 6C, is that there always seems to be another car that we've never (or rarely) heard about.

[richardmorris]

What I love about your fleet 6C, is that there always seems to be another car that we've never (or rarely) heard about.

I expect there are some he's forgotten he owns! I struggle with three sometimes and am trying for four!

[richardmorris]

I also owned a couple of W114 280CE, the black one was in 1994 between a Vauxhall Carton and Citroen Xantia company cars and the white one when I left the Citroen dealer at the end of 1996. I ran the white one as my everyday car until 2000 when I bought a W124 300CE.

When I was at university in 1990 one of my lecturers was just from South Africa and had imported his white four door 114. Seemed old at the time, but it was probably only 15 years old- my 124 was 23 last month!

[Noel Tidybeard]

mr cylinder has now been awarded eleventy twelvety bonus points for CXness

[Six-cylinder]

Sovereign S1 had its top coat painted yesterday to bonnet, both front wings, ns rear door, both rear quarters/lower wings and valance.