[Tech1] Fw: Petrol quality

Thu Jan 17 12:44:14 CST 2019

Well done Nick,  common ground again – I followed my Herald with a MK II Spitfire. Loved it despite the hair-raising tendency of the transverse rear leaf suspension to cause sudden transition of camber from negative to positive on the outside rear wheel when cornering near the limit. Don’t know how we all survived.
Dave Newbitt.

From: Nick Ware via Tech1 
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2019 6:19 PM
To: tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk 
Subject: Re: [Tech1] Fw: Petrol quality

I have fond memories of Dickie Chamberlain helping me grind in new valves on my Triumph Herald, as he had done before on my first car, a Morris Minor 1000. Then, a couple of years later I sold my Hasselblad outfit to buy a Spitfire. Dickie and I thought it would be fun to up its performance by re-boring the cylinders and fitting oversize pistons and rings. I can still see him sitting on the front wheel opposite me as we did it. Then there were the twin SU’s to play with - ah, but I think we’ve done that topic.  
Except, just to bore you a bit more: the Spitfire’s fuel pump had an irritating habit of stopping ticking just as you were stonking down the A3 in the fast lane overtaking everyone. Awkward to say the least! The solution? A piece of string through the bulkhead, tied round the pump. Quick tug and ticking again.

Happy days!

Nick.

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On 17 Jan 2019, at 17:40, David Newbitt via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> wrote:

  From: David Newbitt 
  Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2019 5:36 PM
  To: patheigham 
  Subject: Re: [Tech1] Petrol quality

  Hi Pat – enjoyed your reminder of regrinding valve seats. I think buried somewhere I still have the dowel stick with different size rubber suction cups at the two ends. Seem to remember tins of grinding paste with lids at each end – one for coarse paste, one for fine. Of course if the seats were bad they needed a valve seat cutter which cost more money!

  Funnily enough I had a Herald, a 1200 convertible seen here in SW France in 1964. Rod Stebbing in the nearside rear seat, his sister on his right and her husband beside me in the front passenger street. We were en route to Collioure – happy days.

  Regards to all,

  Dave Newbitt.

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  From: patheigham via Tech1 
  Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2019 3:41 PM
  To: Dave Plowman ; Chris Woolf ; tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk 
  Subject: Re: [Tech1] Petrol quality

  Regarding mpg and supermarket filling stations – I use Sainsbury’s Unleaded, which is flagged up as the cheapest in my area by Petrol Prices (worth signing up for regular updates- they monitor prices within 5km of your area).

  I usually get between 39 and 41.5 mpg with a 3 litre engine on an expensive BMW Sport Coupe for a long run on A roads/motorways >100 miles. Best has been 45.5.

  I never lift the bonnet – leaving that to the service technicians – it’s all computerised now. Gone are the days when my Dad helped me regrind valve seats on my Triumph Herald!

  Best

  Pat

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  From: Dave Plowman via Tech1
  Sent: 16 January 2019 18:22
  To: Chris Woolf; tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk
  Subject: Re: [Tech1] Petrol quality

  In article <73b421cd-f5ce-e64a-781f-47de1041f0d2 at btinternet.com>,

     dave.mdv via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> wrote:

  > I think they actually sent Spitfires to Russia so they must have 

  > re-fuelled them with something that worked! Another great 'invention' 

  > was the 'Norton Ignition Converter' which was fitted between the coil 

  > and the distributor to turn a single spark into lots, to achieve better 

  > combustion! I also had one of those for many years! Perhaps I just 

  > wanted to believe in people's honesty! Cheers, Dave

  My answer to all of these is:- If they worked, why didn't car makers fit

  them from new? A small amount on the price of a new car to make it work

  better.

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