Rolling along, nothing to see

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Re: Rolling along, nothing to see

Postby viva les vegas » Sat Jan 22, 2011 3:20 am

Sounds good :) love to see what he gets when you've got it completely sorted
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Re: Rolling along, nothing to see

Postby Alexander » Sat Feb 12, 2011 10:57 pm

Cant believe that I have missed this! Sounds great and nice power, will be interesting to see what it will give with other jets :)

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Re: Rolling along, nothing to see

Postby pbottomley » Sun Apr 03, 2011 8:51 pm

Moving along with performance news, I have swapped the clutch over and yesterday attended a Drag strip and decided to throw myself in at the deep end and see what the Marvin can do, with his wrong jetted carb.... end result 20.499 and a terminal sped of 67mph (3rd gear) popping into 4th makes him slower. I didn't empty the boot of tools and spares I am 20 plus stone and I didn't use full power on the get away. So all in all I can see an easy sub 20 second car....

that's 2 seconds off stock and only 2 seconds off a stock GT!!! :hapbirthday3: :beercases: :beercases: :drunk8:
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Re: Rolling along, nothing to see

Postby lambaj » Sun Apr 03, 2011 9:57 pm

Sounds to me like your too busy having fun ! Great way to bed in a clutch :wink:

Keep up the good work. hope to see improvements over the summer....

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Re: Rolling along, nothing to see

Postby pbottomley » Sat May 21, 2011 6:30 pm

Busy life as always but a quickie to show you what he is like to drive. Camera *Bleep*, angle wrong sound a bit iffy but gives you an idea. This is not the Webber, that has come off and its back on its baby Solex carb, cuts the power right down I can feel the difference big time.... Fuel input system to be sorted after some special dizzy magic tomorrow. :D :D

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Re: Rolling along, nothing to see

Postby hbpeter » Sat May 21, 2011 6:45 pm

Sounds very nice and throbby!

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Re: Rolling along, nothing to see

Postby House » Sun May 22, 2011 12:43 am

I run a great weight loss clinic down here for flywheels. Not that i want to help you go faster.
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Re: Rolling along, nothing to see

Postby pbottomley » Sun May 22, 2011 7:31 am

Already have a nice lightened 1256 flywheel ;) Not sure if I will use it ref the 5 speed box mod...
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Re: Rolling along, nothing to see

Postby yoeddynz » Tue May 24, 2011 10:58 am

Sounds nice to me! :D Was it quite a bit louder with the webber?
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Re: Rolling along, nothing to see

Postby pbottomley » Tue May 24, 2011 4:19 pm

yoeddynz wrote:Sounds nice to me! :D Was it quite a bit louder with the webber?


YEP :wink:
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