Thursday 6 October 2011

10CR part 2 Stelvio to SPA !


Our overnight stop at Hotel Olimpionica near Cavelese












Heading for the sat morning meeting point at top ov Laveze pass

Top of Lavese Pass, look a Dodgy Dutchman and iffy Yorkshireman :-)
 Heading North, Triumphs all around........  and Coaches!!
Phil scaring his co driver again!  can you smell petrol

A Dolomite in the DOLOMITES!!  Carls  very smart Dolly Sprint.
We be Coming round the Mountain
 Heading up to Timmelsjoch pass, stopped for an hour due to Biker crash. Helicopter job
 Quite a few Bikers about today eh !! 
 Timmelsjoch pass!  Impressive!  Steep !
 Triumphs, and crews having a breather at top of Timmelsjoch! 
 That'll be Leichteinstein then!  blink and you miss it!
 Our sat night hotel in Kisslegg Germany, the Beer Garten was invaded by local Band!  ACE !
 Sunday morning meet point, Germany, Sir Tim Hunts Lovely TR4a.
 Alternator mounting bolt sheared, threw fan belt, overheated,blew bottom hose, had all spares between us, back up and running in 50mins. German Police stopped for a chat ,Jules sent them on their way! ;)
 Rolling into Spa Francochamps
.Cheesy Tourists!

Tuesday 27 September 2011

10CR 2011 Part 1 Telford to Stelvio!

We drove down to north London on the weds with our good mates Tim &Lou with their very nice mk3 GT6, and met up with them loony northerners from, er, Up't North! 
Had a great night of food drink and Banter! Cheers Mike C and Gang!

Arrived at the start in plenty of time, weather a bit mizzley, but ok, Well we (Tim) were Too Excited really to notice the weather!


fits there!


Fancy that! 60odd Triumphs being on the same Ferry!!  :)


Not sure where this is, But it aint Holland !!


Bumped into MikeyB and his Hastily prepared Staag !  looked and sounded good Mikey!


Top of St.Gottard , I think !

Yes! before you ask!  We Did Have the Matt Munro CD with us again !!   Stelvio, Top! 9000ft ish.


Bloomin Tourists !!  


More instalments soon ! :)

Monday 26 September 2011

Megajolt! some pics of Install!

One of my Xmas pressies was a megajolt lite V4 from the States! (thanks Jules!)

This was the final piece in the jigsaw of parts I had gathered the previous year.

Basically you need, Ford 6cyl coilpack, EDIS6 module, Crank sensor, Trigger wheel, and tubing and fitting to put a Vacum(for MAPsensor) line into inlet manifold.

some pics of install........

Coilpack fitting next to Battery


machined a recess on real of trigger wheel


drilled 4 holes and bolted wheel to front pulley fan spacer

made a bracket to hold crank sensor

.fitting front pulley and crank sensor

ticking over .finished front bits .

making and fitting plug leads
drilled and tapped manifold for MAP take offs.


Tidying plug leads etc.
First start up!   Its Alive !

Trying out ignition maps on megajolt software,  laptop on passenger seat!!.
Had great help and support from the chaps on CT forum, helping me through the install and loading the software and 'Maps' onto laptop. Its now running nicely on Megajolt power, having  been around Europe on the Club Triumph 10 Countries Run, !  It didnt miss a beat !

MARRIED!

Got married last Oct to my lovely wife Jules, It did feature some Triumphs Too!! (and my best man Trev's Cobra )


very brief bringing up to speed!

Ok, lets think,
since 2008!
been to Le Mans classic again

Had new rear wing fitted after wheel stud breakage incident! ( now upgraded to 7/16 studs)


damage repairs...



Shiny !! ..




new pass door too!


done a couple of track days with Club Triumph! (the club that does! )


Cadwell park



Oulton Park..

Prescott Hill Standard Triumph Day...

a few pics of Golf Rad install..
After trying the Honda Rad, the Car was'nt keen on it! so Tried a Golf gti mk2 Rad, with Astra header bottle. It likes this, nice 'cheap' install, no body or chassis mods either! ;)



Also, changed the worn out rotoflex rear end(fitted by previous owners) and now running spit 1500 rear swingspring/long shafts/3.63 diff.....

Since having rear wing fitted and painted, decided to leave rear bumpers off, Prefer the look of Bumperless !


Not managed to actually do the RBRR yet, but have done some marshalling at the Oswestry/Gledrid stop, Had a Great time signing in all the weary eyed Zombie Triumphists!! even baked cakes for em ;-)