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Jul 23, 2010 22:44:05 GMT
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Never had any bother with stuck on plates on Vintage cars the police round here are more likely to wave than pull you over, even when you're running a supercharged 6 cylinder on open pipes ...... but then I do live in a very rural area (and I just couldnt be naffed to put the silencer on as it was racing the next day and all set up) I would wonder if a 1 1/2 inch SU is a but 'manly' for a mildly tuned 7 engine? when I rebuilt a road race 7 a few yeas ago I made a downdraught SU (for about £150 what's yours like to cost £1500!!!!?) I used a 1 1/4" as that's what I was recommended by a few people with much more knowledge of 7's than me, the engine was similar spec to yours just with a heavily ported head, modified VW beetle distributor and a custom grind cam and it ran lovely on a 1 1/4... Just wondering if it might be the source of your running/idling problem, also the VW dizzy largely did away with the advance retard (though I machined up an adaptor so it could remain connected largely for easy starting) it made it much nicer to drive in traffic.. did I write inch and a half? my bad. it's 1.1/4". It's £1500 because it's completely original - well, that's what we've been told/offered. The running problems are almost certainly the dynamo/distributor drive, but we'll get that sorted. If I change that, I change class, and then I'm directly up against an Alfa Monza and a Riley Ulster, to name but two. That's much scarier than going up against the small Rileys and other 7s of Class B B) Thanks for all the positivity! It's nice to see some. Except for you nugget. You're a plank. Come you and see if you can polish 5 years of rallying crud out of it
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Jul 23, 2010 22:47:58 GMT
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I bet Jesus smiled when he saw that little red barchetta swinging tush through the gravel. He always liked a mean ride when he was in human form. (Donkeys were considered aggressive back then, kind of like a Harley is today..... I say this because I talk to God every day. And I asked him. Er, Him.
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Jul 23, 2010 23:36:50 GMT
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I bet Jesus smiled when he saw that little red barchetta swinging tush through the gravel. He always liked a mean ride when he was in human form. (Donkeys were considered aggressive back then, kind of like a Harley is today..... Lmao! Donkeys were considered about the same as a Cub90! The whole point of him riding on one was to counteract the usual tradition of a king entering Jerusalem on a magnificent steed, because at that time the Jerusalem-ites wanted him to go take the country from Roman rule and become their long awaited Messiah-King. History lesson over for today
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Jul 23, 2010 23:47:34 GMT
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I bet Jesus smiled when he saw that little red barchetta swinging tush through the gravel. He always liked a mean ride when he was in human form. (Donkeys were considered aggressive back then, kind of like a Harley is today..... Lmao! Donkeys were considered about the same as a Cub90! The whole point of him riding on one was to counteract the usual tradition of a king entering Jerusalem on a magnificent steed, because at that time the Jerusalem-ites wanted him to go take the country from Roman rule and become their long awaited Messiah-King. History lesson over for today Oh no. History lesson ON! I hate to do this to our evangelical young racer, BUT: Quoting from Giovanni Papini's "Life Of Christ" (1923), let us learn more about Jesus' Retro-Ride, shall we? "Even up to our days it has been said that Jesus wished to ride on an ass as a sign of humble meekness, as if He wished to signify symbolically that He approached His people as the Prince of Peace. It has been forgotten that in the robust early periods of history the ass was a fiery and warlike animal; handsome and bold as a horse, fit to be sacrified to divinities; rebellious to the end of time." In other words, Jesus took Jerusalem on a Harley, mofo. ;D (Cue up the soundtrack to "The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly" as Norm shakes off the dust from his sandals and walks off to the Mount of Olives. "Ahhhhhhh-yeeeee-ahhhhhhh-eeeee-Ahhhhhh......!")
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Last Edit: Jul 23, 2010 23:51:17 GMT by Team Blitz
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Jul 24, 2010 17:33:42 GMT
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Lmao! Donkeys were considered about the same as a Cub90! The whole point of him riding on one was to counteract the usual tradition of a king entering Jerusalem on a magnificent steed, because at that time the Jerusalem-ites wanted him to go take the country from Roman rule and become their long awaited Messiah-King. History lesson over for today Oh no. History lesson ON! I hate to do this to our evangelical young racer, BUT: Quoting from Giovanni Papini's "Life Of Christ" (1923), let us learn more about Jesus' Retro-Ride, shall we? "Even up to our days it has been said that Jesus wished to ride on an ass as a sign of humble meekness, as if He wished to signify symbolically that He approached His people as the Prince of Peace. It has been forgotten that in the robust early periods of history the ass was a fiery and warlike animal; handsome and bold as a horse, fit to be sacrified to divinities; rebellious to the end of time." In other words, Jesus took Jerusalem on a Harley, mofo. ;D (Cue up the soundtrack to "The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly" as Norm shakes off the dust from his sandals and walks off to the Mount of Olives. "Ahhhhhhh-yeeeee-ahhhhhhh-eeeee-Ahhhhhh......!") Oh, you brung it, sista. I'm going to counter with a more authoritative text: "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass." and "Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass." I daresay meek and lowly don't have much compatibility with fiery and warlike (which claim has no scriptural evidence to prove it) Here, have an on-topic Colt...
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