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Re: Scimitar MV6
« Reply #15 on: 21 November 2011, 09:20:12 »

That looks like a great piece of work :y
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Re: Scimitar MV6
« Reply #16 on: 21 November 2011, 18:42:35 »

Thanks the Boy

Finally the video has worked, the picture is a bit dark, but the sound is quite resonable really, it sounds pretty close, just the volume that you can't really get an idea about (its pretty loud though, perhaps a little louder than I'd hoped). 

Still, I'm really pleased, it sounds lovely, way nicer than open cylinder heads :)  This is the first time I've been able to rev it right up, I can't believe how quickly it gets up to the limiter, that flywheel is ace!

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More to come
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Re: Scimitar MV6
« Reply #17 on: 21 November 2011, 18:43:27 »

(click the image of the engine)
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Re: Scimitar MV6
« Reply #18 on: 21 November 2011, 19:08:01 »

You could've washed it mate  ;D
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Re: Scimitar MV6
« Reply #19 on: 21 November 2011, 20:13:33 »

Nice Job, well done. :y :y :y
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Re: Scimitar MV6
« Reply #20 on: 21 November 2011, 21:46:47 »

Yeah it does need a "quick dust off"

Thanks guys
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Re: Scimitar MV6
« Reply #21 on: 21 November 2011, 22:09:24 »

Looks and sounds fantastic mate, wish I had a fraction of your patience and knowledge
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Re: Scimitar MV6
« Reply #22 on: 22 November 2011, 21:22:06 »

Hi Lozz ::)
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Re: Scimitar MV6
« Reply #23 on: 23 November 2011, 06:49:37 »

Hello!?  Do I know you from antoher forum ? :)
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Re: Scimitar MV6
« Reply #24 on: 03 December 2011, 21:08:47 »

The exhausts are all done.  The angle gridner gave up on me today, so that took a chunk out of the day.  Its lasted 5 and its really done well, so I went and bought exactly the same one again (well the new version). 

So here are the pipes now conplete with bends in them



Here is how they look on the car





And the whole system layed out.  Actually its not quite finished, I still need to just weld the Lambda bosses in, but I'm still waiting for suitable SS versions to turn up. 




More to come tomorrow, not sure what yet, but something.
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Re: Scimitar MV6
« Reply #25 on: 03 December 2011, 21:13:22 »

Extremely impressive piece of work that - respect. :y
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Re: Scimitar MV6
« Reply #26 on: 03 December 2011, 21:59:17 »

Thanks Albs :)
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Re: Scimitar MV6
« Reply #27 on: 04 December 2011, 08:22:55 »

GOOD GRIEF,

Years ago my scimitar se5 manual overdrive, engine was ok but didnt set the world alight,
had a mate who worked at Osselli,s in oxford, who would get the engine sorted at mates rates if i didnt mind waiting, no problem, holding down 3 jobs at the time, meant i was fairly flush,
while they had the engine i did all the suspension with spax and uprated bushes new trunnions etc,
engine pulled taken to them, told them to builld the strongest essex they could within reason,
so rebore new pistons, crank ground and nitrided, blueprinted, lightened and balanced, high flow oil pump,hot cam, steel timing gear, heads ported and flowed and biggest valves you could get in an essex head, topped off with a holley 390 rejetted to suit the engine,
even back then it cost me 3.5k  :obut i thought it was the bee,s knees there wasnt a lot cold stay with it on any kind of road , I honestly thought it was the most powerful car you would ever build!
it made 213bhp on the rolling road, fuel consumption was around 12 to 15mpg and it would do just under 20 if was very gentle with it!!

after around 5k the big valves cracked across the seats so the heads had to be repaired, ( not enough meat between the valves owing to the size of them) this turned out to be a fairly regular occurence(twice in two years) and eventually i sold it to another enthusiat!

The point of the story is Lozz you have just built a cheaper more economical, probably faster scimitar!!
nice one mate!!

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Re: Scimitar MV6
« Reply #28 on: 04 December 2011, 08:43:46 »

That sounds like a wicked Scimitar! 

But I'm hoping for three times that MPG figure with a cost equivilent running it on LPG. 

Thanks for your comments :)

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Re: Scimitar MV6
« Reply #29 on: 04 December 2011, 21:08:17 »

Done some more today, spent a long time tidying up all the welding mess from the exhausts.  Its nice to be back onto a list of smaller jobs that needn't take 3 week.  After tidying I thought long and hard about how to get the wipers how I wnat them. 

The problem is they're slow and the wiper motor is ugly in the engine bay.  The two birds one stone answer is to move it into the cab.  I bought some more wiper wheel boxes a while ago so these are now fitted, but I've binned the long outer that goes into the engine bay and fitted a smaller section from what was the rear wiper mechanism (now redundent).  The idea is that without the bend the wiper motor will not have to overcome the friction in the bend, and will be closer.  Ontop of this its all tighter, regreased and the motor has been stripped and cleaned too.  It all works a treat. 

Here's the new shorter mechanism. 


Looking up at the motor in its new home.


The old hole is now filled, but still needs painting. 


And the results.  In the past if I accidently hit the wipers on a dry day, I'd have to get out and help them accross the windscreen.  But now, with dry windscreen and on a pretty flat battery (engine not running too) they're happy to go for it at a resonable pace :)


More to come, soon hopefully. 
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