invacar LightBulbFun's Invacar & general ramble thread, index on page 1, survivors lists on Pages 24/134 & AdgeCutler's Invacar Mk12 Restoration from Page 186 onwards, still harping on...

[Sunny Jim]

@Andyrew should be nominated for Autoshite Hero for Services To Shite status for his work sorting members' cars.

[Dobloseven]

How is 500 pages going to be commemorated? Won't be long now!

[LightBulbFun]

50 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

That is faster than me these days. My Rolls has a recommended max cruise speed of 50 mph.

thats one of the nice things about REV, I am never really in danger of ever bothering any sort of motorway variable speed limit  

since i am usually doing somewhere about that speed, depending on gradient, so it makes near as no difference to me LOL

I would still like to twiddle with the advance see if I can eek out a bit more power, not for continuous faster running, I understand the concerns people have about me possibly prematurely wearing out/blowing up my engine, but I would like a bit more grunt, just to be able to overtake a bit quicker and things like that, I think her current timing is set to about 3 degrees, I think REV was originally set to 12 but it got reset in the work she has had in recent years, so I do wonder if that might be worth playing with...

[LightBulbFun]

16 minutes ago, Dobloseven said:

How is 500 pages going to be commemorated? Won't be long now!

good question! in true Autoshite fashion I am still not sure! really I should of saved these pictures for Page 500 celebrations LOL

https://autoshite.com/topic/32723-lightbulbfuns-invacar-general-ramble-thread-index-on-page-1-survivors-lists-on-pages-24134-adgecutlers-invacar-mk12-restoration-from-page-186-onwards-still-harping-on/page/482/#comment-3236992

 

[Christine]

My dad said to me once , imagine hitting the top of the pistons with a sledgehammer  2500 times in a minute ..because that, boy ....  is what the engine's going through at  60mph....

Lucky i have a redline at 7500 in my Honda then . 

[Six-cylinder]

22 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

I would like a bit more grunt, just to be able to overtake a bit quicker and things like that.

I overtook a car for the first time this week with my Rolls. It was driven by an older person braking down from 42mph on a 60 mph A road for every curve, when I am sure a 61 plate Volvo XC90 could take the curves at 80 mph. I took the 20/25 up to close to 60 mph as I did not have unlimited space to be on the wrong side of the road.

[LightBulbFun]

2 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

I overtook a car for the first time this week with my Rolls. It was driven by an older person braking down from 42mph on a 60 mph A road for every curve, when I am shaw a 61 plate Volvo XC90 could take the curves at 80 mph. I took the 20/25 up to close to 60 mph as I did not have unlimited space to be on the wrong side of the road.

with the last trip I did which was taking her to Andyrew's where I decided to keep speed more around 50 rather then 60 for the sake of mechanical sympathy and to see what cruising at that slower speed was like (how many people would I get in the way of etc)

I was rather bemused by the fact that I was *still* finding myself over taking people, on a Motorway I should add! not an A road or anything like that but the M1! 

[High Jetter]

Looking forward to the collection thread! Well done @Andyrew, top shiter.

[Dyslexic Viking]

45 minutes ago, Dobloseven said:

How is 500 pages going to be commemorated? Won't be long now!

I think @LightBulbFun doing Lands end to John o groats in Rev would be appropriate.

[S2000]

11 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

I think @LightBulbFun doing Lands end to John o groats in Rev would be appropriate.

It would. For Charity. On a solo mission it would be stupidity without a fairly large backup crew.

[Dyslexic Viking]

4 minutes ago, S2000 said:

It would. For Charity. On a solo mission it would be stupidity without a fairly large backup crew.

Someone here has just done a long Scotland trip in 2 Reliants without any problems and they are quite similar. 

So I would trust Rev more to make the trip than many 10-year-old cars.

[Andrew353w]

16 hours ago, Andyrew said:

 

The first picture gives the impression of a tree growing through REV! I love this thread and I recon you could extract a few more hoses from the engine, by judicial tuning. Air-cooled engines seem to have weird timing settings and so I'd suggest having a tinker......

[Floatylight]

1 hour ago, S2000 said:

It would. For Charity. On a solo mission it would be stupidity without a fairly large backup crew.

Support crew of @dollywobbler @Zelandeth @AdgeCutler in their Invacars and all of us along the route could come out and cheer them on..

In all seriousness though would be a great way to do some fundraising!

[urpert]

22 minutes ago, Floatylight said:

Support crew of @dollywobbler @Zelandeth @AdgeCutler in their Invacars and all of us along the route could come out and cheer them on..

In all seriousness though would be a great way to do some fundraising!

Or they could do a scaled down version. Take them across to the IOW and do a Needles-Bembridge Trans Island Rally. Get @TheIsleofShite in on the act. 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

I'd say leave the timing well alone and just enjoy the fruits of andyrew's hard graft. 

If it ain't broke, don't try and fix it!

[barefoot]

2 hours ago, Andrew353w said:

I'd suggest having a tinker......

And bobbing on a delorto 44.

[Sheefag]

54 minutes ago, Dick Cheeseburger said:

I'd say leave the timing well alone and just enjoy the fruits of andyrew's hard graft. 

If it ain't broke, don't try and fix it!

Aye, a very good point.

A very smart man once advised me, "A good question to always ask yourself is, What Do I Win?"

The faster it goes, the shorter its life is going to be.
Blow it up and you're totally fucked.

Thing is, you're a custodian of something that was never designed nor intended, to last this long. 
With custodianship comes responsibility.
It's a testament to the skills and generosity of others and it deserves respect.