There's usually a waiting list but yes see Peter Baldwin at wimpole near Royston. Highly highly recommended (the chap Gordon mentioned above)   Many of us been there and worked wonders.

Hiya Ben, good to hear you have got it on the road The water has no doubt come from condensation in your tank due to it not being used. The timing should not of moved! As it started, the points have not oxidised. They often need a clean after a car has been left standing. If it is not happy now, perhaps I got the jet sizes right Where has Dave Knight suggested you take it? I would have recommended taking it to Northants motor sports but then you might end up with more power than mine

Rob

Rob, it's not happy I think due to the water in the fuel.

Apart from a couple of bits that blew in, this was the contents of both float bowls.....



Not very pretty at all. Lots of bits of jelly which is what I keep finding in the idle jets. Two new fuel filters be here tomorrow. I'll drain the lot and refill. When it's not struggling with the jelly/water, it seems to run ok although I haven't tried it on the road with the new jets yet.

David has recommended Advanced Motorsport Engineering down near Silverstone.

Well they claim to know their stuff, I hope their prices are not too high! I saw Dave Night a couple of weeks ago, it was great for him to tell me his treatment seems to have gone well

Rob

I haven't asked them about prices.....I kind of darent!

Yes, good news about Dave. I'm friends with him on Facebook, he's just done the three peaks challenge for charity too.

The trouble with rolling roads is that they only test full throttle settings! they can do the emission tests at tick-over but if your vehicle has not got an engine management system; they can not set part throttle settings by the computers. They have to do this by trail and error on the open road and then this is of course down to the skill of the technician. Any way, let us know how you get on

Rob

Right, bloody filters didn't arrive so haven't drained the fuel. Thought better of the quick drive up to M7, thinking they be delivered today....how wrong was i?

Anyway, dug.out the copper pipe reel I had and finished up the templates for the hard line I need to make. I want to replace as much of the soft hose as possible. The Corvair was hard lined as std but the std pipes are a completely different shape to what I need. I bought two more of the fittings and I'm just sourcing a 3 way brass junction block from the states which will then be all the hardware I need. Just need to get some proper pipe (either Kunifer or stainless) and have it shaped and flared and I'll be good to go with that.

Then decided to try and make a start on a roof. I've had a piece of steel in the garage for a while for this job. Approx 10mm wide, 3mm thick and 1.1m long. Using a blow torch to hear it and mole grips to bend to shape, I finally got it to fit into the recess in the screen.



I've had a big piece of green canvas stored too for this job. Tested out and all seems to fit in the screen channel.ok...





So it looks like it will work. I need to measure it all out properly and the metal.rod will be stocked and glued into the front of the canvas. The canvas was also filthy so got a wash too. Looks much cleaner and I'm.just trying to get the creases to drop out...

A steamer will help get them out mate. Just don't get it too close or leave it in one place too long.

Cheers bud, I'll see if I can find one....

You mentioned jelly in the fuel, that is probably a result of bacteria munching on the ethanol in modern fuel, that can be a major problem if fuel is left standing, particularly if the fuel level is low as the air above it has come in from outside and the more air the more chance of bacteria.

That is why places with emergency standby generators cannot use biofuel as it just sits there waiting for an emergency and when you need it there are globs of mush in it.

With my knees in bits not started mine for a couple of months. Good prompt, thank

Ben,

Are you going to fabricate side windows as well. Like your idea

Ben after all this time you will need to strip the carbs and blast cleaner down every orifice and drilling preferably backwards if you can or fill them with cleaner on the bench let it soak then empty and blow it all out. This fuel will gel on the drillings and posrts.

Thanks Keith, I think I will do just that. The new filters have arrived so as long as I can get some decent meds for this bloody trapped nerve in my shoulder, I should be able to crack on with getting the carbs off, the filters changed and the tank drained.

Pepsi, the plan at the moment is to try and make a bikini type top. I don't have the skills or equipment to be making side panels. The plan is I'll get the canvas cut roughly to shape and the metal rod will hold it at the front and a pair of adjustable straps (like rucksack straps) will hold it at the rear and allow for tensioning.

Go for it Ben