Sussex Meet on 27th?

[Deleted]

Just wondering if anyone around Sussex or nearby fancies an unofficial, casual, post Christmas meet-up on the 27th to mooch about looking at each other's cars in a car park, in order to escape the relatives and turkey sammidges for a couple of hours?

No idea where or when exactly, but I thought I'd start a thread and see if there's any interest.

[metroman]

Id be well up for that!

[Deleted]

Great stuff!

A meet is born!

I guess there's not much point deciding a location just yet in case others want to join and it skews the point of convergence.

[EmDee]

There is a meet in Yapton every 1st Wednesday of the month.

retrorides.proboards.com/thread/82886/west-sussex-meet-wednesday-month

Just sayin'...

[markbognor]

I could go for a meet between chrimbo and new year.

[Paul H]

Mark - ditto! Would be good to catch up too.

I'm interested, dependant on where and when

[Deleted]

Let's decide on a where and when then!

Merry Christmas, Retro Riders.

[Deleted]

(I'm in the Hove area)

[v8ian]

Bexhill contingent here, I'm on standby so I cant say what I'm doing one hour to the next,

[HARDCORE]

How about a late breakfast at Shoreham Airport tomorrow morning? 10am?

The restaurant there is great

[Paul H]

The grub is indeed good, but for those going, make sure you bring at least £1 for parking (for 2 hrs, the cheapest option) as it's 24hr, 7 days a week pay and display. More details here.

Not sure yet if I can make it though.

[hughgeorghan]

Tim, saw what must have been you driving up Sackville Rd a while back and nearly cricked my neck turning to have a better look at your car as it passed. Is it stripped out? Looked to have a cage in it?

[HARDCORE]

Sufficiently poo uptake mandates abandonment for tomorrow.

[Deleted]

Shoreham airport is good.
I'll need to check-in here first thing in the morning though. Wife is trying to get a family trip to the winter wonderland thing in Hyde Park. I've said there's a car meet, but to be honest if it's only one or two peeps I probably ought to take the kids out. Can still do it though if it's definitely happening, this isn't a back-out.

Mr Huge, yes, it's stripped out. It's an ex-rally and (more recently) ex-track car. Very basic inside. Just bare metal and two seats.

[Deleted]

I guess it's not happening today then. Ho hum, I'm going to take my old rocket for a blast along the coast instead as we're not going to London either.

[EmDee]

Well this thread went well then...

Did I mention there's a meet in Yapton on Wednesday evening (the 7th Jan)?

I'll be there with my Christmas bells on  although that may not be a selling point for it.

[Deleted]

7th is my first day back at work otherwise I'd be there. I work in London so don't get back until 8pm.

Today's meet suggestion was always a bit of a longshot considering the short amount of warning I gave and it being Christmas and all that. Dying to get along to some kind of meet soon though. Maybe I'll make it to the February Yapton meet.

Took my car for a burn down to the Bentley motor museum today (not Bentley cars, Bentley motor museuem and wildfowl trust).

On the way back I almost literally did burn it, like a complete moron. I was stuck behind an outside lane dawdler and when he finally pulled back into the inside lane I had a short opportunity to overtake a line of cars to hit clear open A road.

I don't know what happened, but for some reason I stayed in third for way too long and over-revved into the red for a second or two. It was like I had a brain spasm. I wasn't trying to be a clueless revvy dick-haed, I just kept my pedal to the floor too long and momentarily forgot to shift.

Upshot was that a plume of smoke came out the pipes plus a cloud of dry smoke in the cabin. Not really thick but a definite cloudy atmosphere, not much of a smell to it though. Not sure what exactly I screwed up with that moment of stupidity but by the time a lay by swung into view it had cleared and the car seemed to be okay so I kept going.

Got home fine and the car seemed to be driving fine. When I pulled up though and checked it out, it was dripping a very small amount of oil. It has a sporadic drip anyway,but this was like four five fresh dots on the road beneath it, not one.

I have a few optimistic theories...

1. I recently topped up the oil and it was slightly too high after. The shaft for the dipstick isn't attached at the block so oil can blub out of the dipstick hole. When I got back I had the hood up and was revving it to see if anything was escaping from the exhaust manifold and noticed that the oil blubbed up on revs out of the dipstick ho?e in the casing. So over-revving could have thrown a bunch of oil over the block which then burned up causing smoke in the cab (car is totally stripped and it would be easy to transfer smoke from bay to cab).

2. I do have a manifold leak which due to be fixed in the new year,so maybe I just kicked a bunch of soot and fog out of the leak point under immense pressure.

3. Not proud of this one at all... Due to the roll cage,the handbrake level is really hard to pull on and push off because it rams right against the undersode of a side bar on the cage, on the outside of the driver's seat. Not for the first time, I discovered I had only partially disengaged the handbrake as I drove away from the over-revving moment and started checking for possible causes. So it's possible it was my handbrake burning at high speed. Such a schoolboy error.

After I got back I parked it up and let it cool then started it up again and went for a drive. Seems absolutely fine, but I'm now quite spooked by the thought I may have killed something that will become apparent in due course. The engine is re-engineered for high revving track racing so it should be okay with a brief 1 - 2 second thraping, but even so... That smoke wasn't particularly reassuring!

I must have looked like an absolute clueless dick to the cars I was passing. If I was watching and listening to me thrashing the curse word out of an old car like that I'd have shook my head and muttered something about hot-headed idiots not knowing how to drive a car properly.

= (

[avengertec]

Prob just out the dipstick

[Deleted]

I hope so. I had a dream last night where a sombre old judge accused me of murdering my piston rings.

[Clement]

The same thing happened to my gf driving the Giulia once. I asked her to let it rev a little in second gear to get the oil off the cylinders after driving down a hill (dead valve stem seals). She revved it indeed, to 7500rpm instead of the 6300rpm redline... A plum of greyish smoke came out the exhaust, I immediately shut the engine off and we stopped on the side of the road. I thought that was the end of it, but upon looking at the spark plugs one was missing a tiny bit of electrode near the elbow!

It's been pretty much fine ever since, I guess revving old engine can unsettle all kinds of deposits and out the exhaust, don't beat yourself for that.