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General Discussion Area / Re: What do we drive today
« on: 14 January 2022, 17:19:12 »
I am down to one Omega (3.2 MV6) at the moment, but only as an occasional car, I have VW Van for daily work duties.
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General Discussion Area / Re: A slightly misty Brackley Dawn...
« on: 14 January 2022, 17:08:43 »As the wind was low, and the sky looked clear, seemed rude not to send one of the drones up at sunrise this morning...
https://youtu.be/WoBa5g8bXIU
Nice drone work, and I know the area well from school walks many years ago.
Do you happen to know anywhere that can fix my son's drone, which he unfortunately backed into a tree top in sport mode last year? :'(
It's the DJI Mavic Mini, and only needs a couple of the arms replaced, but nowhere seems to want to sell spares, or offer repairs.
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 16 December 2021, 08:51:31 »Fair enough, B6s were a waste on the Omega, so B8s are an extravagance, but not my car, so if it works for you...Yes , as mentioned we fitted the bigger Lotus spec cup washers that we make from S514 which makes them last longer.
Did you remember the cup washer below the top mount?
B8s are fine as the car is destined for a bit of track work...once the brakes are up to scratch!!
if it was just for the road I may revert to some adjustable Konis which can be backed right off for comfort and control.
It's all an extravagance, if I was sensible I'd be renting an econobox on PCP
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Omega Gallery / Re: Just Bought an Elite
« on: 16 December 2021, 08:45:41 »
Nice example, on the cusp of the changeover so has the flat faced fat five spokes which suit the Elite well I think. Hopefully you'll get back any investment in the long term. Such a comfortable barge for wafting about, I get plenty of admiring comments for mine even when it hasn't been cleaned for a while.
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 15 December 2021, 17:36:05 »What makes them 'upside-down'So called "upside-down" Bilstein front dampers have the body containing the oil in a large diameter chamber that looks like a massive piston rod at the top of the shock, and the rod then is screwed to the bottom of the strut. There are benefits in unsprung mass (marginal) and rigidity (mainly) when used in a McPherson strut where bending loads are applied to the assembly. They were popular for use in rally applications for this reason.
And did you refit the cup washer below the top mount (cup face down - opposite to the top one)? Not doing so will blow the top mount in pretty short order.
Also have Bilstein improved the rear fitting kits? Always found them underwhelming compared to the Sachs/OE fittingsRear shock upper threads were nearly an inch shorter than the Sachs/Factory ones.
The struts I acquired were new old stock, and the rears were the last ones in the country. You are right there wasn't much in the way of a fitting kit, but fortunately all the Lotus Carlton stuff we have in stock is compatible, so we fitted new Peddars uprated top mounts and our S514 Lotus spec cup washers to the top, and had some new bottom bolts and GSi top mounts for the rear.
Car is noticeably firmer now (only just on the acceptable side of uncomfortable), which is compounded by a switch to 17" Alloys with Nangkang cup tyres all around that replaced the 15" ancient Goodyears that it came on. On a previous car I did a back to back and the Nankangs were firmer than Uniroyals, so I left the Uniroyals on the comfort barge that I have now sold.
Plan is to fit the LSD next, and better front brakes before converting to manual box and lighter flywheel next year.
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 15 December 2021, 11:34:35 »
Fitted these "upside down" Northern Ireland police spec Bilstein B8s on the ex-GMP MV6, and rears to match too.
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Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted / Re: Any one selling a set of aluminium rocker covers for a v6
« on: 30 November 2021, 20:54:55 »And blown crank seal instead of camcover gaskets are the reason not to use them.Do you, or anyone know of any updates to the crankcase breather on later 3.2 engines? Both my 2001 cars (both with FSH) have had massive oil leaks from the cam cover seals, but the 2003 Elite that I broke didn't leak at all apart from a small weep low on the LHS of the block. My first assumption, as it had been used as a farmyard runaround in a far from cherished condition when I found it, was there wasn't any oil in it. But it did, and the engine ran very sweetly. I hadn't heard about the crankseal problem if aluminium cam covers are used, which sort of points to an underlying excess of crankcase pressure.