i no am i while away but can i be in your gang lol...good news andy on the engine dude ,well happy for you ,i am awaiting paul from bugmad to come set up new dizzy and carb for me then exhaust back from mike then the fun will begin buddy ,tel me when shes back and running and i will have a blast up matey

I'm up for a blast too. Mid way between Chris, Andy and you Fran

Chris, Andy, Roadrunner - will be up for a spin out when things are sorted for certain. 

Here's some piccies. 1) the inside oof the barrel where the problem happened, 2) the old lump that never got me anywhere 3) the rebuilt one before it went in and 4) what it looks like now. 

Soooooo.......what goodies were done on the rebuild? 

- New 044 heads to replace stock standard items
- Porting of the new heads which are now flowing about 15% more than out of the box
- 1.25 ratio rockers and all pushrods adjusted to the correct length
- Compression ratio changed to 9 to 1
- Drill for full flow - External cooler on order
- Oh and a hole drilled to take an oil temp sensor

Before it went pop the old unit was pushing out 100 bhp so whilst we don't know we reckon the mods could have added another 25%.

Looking forward to getting the oil cooling fitted and going for a run.   

Cheers

Fran 

Looks nice Fran 

Looks nice Fran 

Thanks Peter,

Also had a long chat with Alan at GAC who did the rebuild who came up with a stack of tips for me and a way of easily and more accurately setting the valve clearances that I'd never haerd of before.  It involves setting them at 90 degrees off TDC and needs no feeler gauges. 

Cheers

Fran 

I will ask you to explain when I meet up next, it all sounds good and coming along well now though 

getting closer now

awesom 

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Looking good Fran.  Glad you are back on the road (well very very nearly)

Yep, I think a cruise coming up soon. (Though the fact that we are all going to be in run in mode  )

Fran

Top news your progressing and look forward to Old Ginge being formally Alive again!

Look forward to seeing this beastie in the flesh some time 

Clem

Ginge is a beast and some mighty impressive work has gone into her ... but beaware Fran is on the darkside and despite all my efforts I have not managed to make him see the light ...  can you believe he lives in a world where there is no such thing as AutoSol!   

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can you believe he lives in a world where there is no such thing as AutoSol!   

What? Tony - wash your mouth out!!!!! Of course it should be polished, Clearly his new locals will have to work on him and get chroming! 

I once got Fran to add something bling... well some mirror tape in his rear lights .....  So good luck fellow Chromosexuals

This is still one of my fav pics of Ginge ... you can get a great idea of how low it is and the angle of the screen compaired with my buggy in the background  ... plus it tells you that Fran is not only on the dark side... he is not exactly tall




It also shows that I am tall and need to lose some weight     Does my bum look big in this springs to mind 

It also shows that I ............................... need to lose some weight     Does my bum look big in this springs to mind 

- I'd like to say it wasn't that low before you got in it and how I now need to buy new shocks but unfortunately I can't. 

Andy - you'll have to go some to persuade me on the polish front. Look closely at this photo and you'll see what it took in terms of refreshment just to get me just to put shiny stuff out of sight on the inside of my tail lights.

Cheers

Fran