Mcalvert

As per the title, I am looking for a 1/4" BSP sump plug which appears to be what is fitted to my James Whiting sump, but has sheared.  Am supposed to be competing at the weekend - any suggestions welcomed!

Go on then - who is in?  I convinced myself I wasn't going to but somehow, clicking "buy" on Paypal last night proved just too easy... 

Can I do bold and italics?

Yes please for Tam and I if there is still space please!

Hi - if anyone has any photos from the Anglesey sprints, could you send me a few ASAP please?

Well done Jeremy.  A well deserved win after some great performances!

Looking forward to seeing everyone at the awards dinner.

Hi Jonathan,

Looking forward to seeing you on track next year! 

Sorry, can't help with the Petty Strut, but if you haven't already done so, would suggest you also post your request outside the "Speed Events" forum as most of us in here need ours :-) 

Booking made for Tam and I.  Looking forward to it

Test  

So when the engine suddenly lost power and started sounding like a bag of nails, I shut it straight down and feared the (expensive) worst.

Having checked for obvous problems this morning, I couldn't find much amiss.  Wet on the inside, dry on the outside, and the compression readings looked OK.  I started her up for a few seconds - she ran, but sounded awful.  Dave Gemzoe was kind enough to come around, and using his considerable engine building experience, set about looking for evidence of what the problem might be.  Again, nothing obvious, so we tried to fire her up again.  Outcome - one exhaust primary which had come loose, and nothing more

Many, many thanks to Dave for having given up his time so freely.  This fix was trivial, but the amount of engineering knowledge in Dave's head is astounding!

So, a good end to a good weekend.  Fantastic banter and competition in Class 3 as always.  Particular congrats. to Danny Malkin and Jeff Smith for two spectacular runs!

Two Bowlers in the paddock ... We're doomed

Appreciate your car is SORN'd, but surely the best approach is to arrange to trailer it to a rolling road and to get it looked at professionally (fellow Xflow owner speaking here!)  Happy to loan you my trailer if it helps?  Based near Maidenhead, so not that close, but backup if there isn't anyone nearer?

Good luck!

See you there

Horlicks.  Really sorry to hear that Chris.  If you wanted to share a car, mine is certainly available and I'm sure you'd have plenty of other offers too...

Does anyone have any photos from these events that they would be willing to share please?

Cheers,

Chris - I bought mine from CC - self adhesive pads about 10mm thick which you then cover.  That was quite a few years back mind you so I don;t know if they still do it.  It looks like their parts website is unavailable so can't see if they still stock it, but might be worth asking?

Doesn't sound pleasant Matt, but very best wishes for a swift recovery

Most circuits prefer to keep their "in season" weekends for racing unfortunately...  Still, I think there are more than a few events worth booking a day off work for

If your luck with trailer types is as good as mine (I think I've had 3 blow this year!) then I'd definitely suggest changing them...  To be fair, I think it was two individual blow outs, but I didn't realise about the first one for such a long time (It's the one problem with the stability of a twin axle trailer) that by the time I stopped, it had damaged the adjacent tyre too which then blew not long after...

With the engine back in the car having changed the clutch and CRB, I have one remaining problem.  The water temperature reading on the stack is an off-the-scale "999".  My initial thought was that I must have broken a wire somewhere or not disturbed a connection, but disconnecting the sensor drops the reading to 0, so maybe not?

I can't think of any reason why the sensor would have chosen to go faulty while the engine is out, but assuming these work on resistance, does anyone know what their normal operating range should be?  I put my multimeter across with the engine hot and it read just 0.3 Ohm.  Thoughts appreciated!

Thanks for your help.  In the end, I did ring Webcon and not only spoke to a human being who knew what I was talking about, but they had the part in stock too.  Proper service makes a nice change...

OK, once P&P and VAT were added it, it came to a rather eye-watering price for such a simple item, but I'm at least now sorted

Hi

When taking the engine out to replace the clutch, I inevitably left one set of wires connected, and pulled them out of the connector.  In this case, it was the wires to the air temp sensor on my Weber Alpha ECU setup.

Looking through the installation instructions, it is listed as a Packard connector, but I can't seem to find one the obvious places like DT.  Weber Alpha dealers are pretty thin on the ground these days, so does anyone have any idea where I could get one?  All I really need to replace are the two metal pins.

Cheers,

Fantastic new!  Many congratulations from the Calvert clan

Out of my control, and if you think I'm Photoshopping them out one by one, you've got another thing coming

Great event - sorry we had to leave before the end.  Congratulations to all those who took home awards. 

Roll on 2017...