Slotting the bolt holes at the bottom of the struts allows you to bring the camber back to where it should be after lowering a sud. Dropping the height kicks out the front wheels quite a bit, which can cause heavy steering

Hi Louise it's colin, iv got a couple of the left hand side ones, am just missing a right side. The one with the tower inside. Be much appreciated if you can help me out

Can anyone help me out with a right hand side cam tensioner mount? Bloody snapped mine taking the wheel off it

Am i right in thinking that if you put a 1.7 crank in a 1.5 block you'll lose the 2.5mm clearance at the top of the bore? So if you use 1.5 flat heads on it you'll end up with virtually no compression chamber and a ratio of around 13:1. If so how do you over come this? Would you not need to use cham...

It looks like 1.7 mech head valves are longer than the hydraulic ones liam. I'll know for sure when I get these hydraulic heads stripped this week.

I bought some mech heads years ago and I just want to make sure they've come with the correct valves before I send all the bits to the builder.

Done some digging this morning shrew, 1.7 IE valves are 93mm long. So am thinking these 94mm valves are maybe correct as they came with a pair of stripped down 1.7 mechanical heads. Taking into account the compression chamber in the 1.7 mechanical heads theyr defiantely going to be a different lengt...

Does anyone know the valve lengths between different motors? I measured some today and got 92mm with 38mm diameter which i think are from a 95hp twin lobe motor. The 2nd set are 94mm with 40mm diameter and supposedly from a 1.7 mechanical lifted head. Am thinking that maybe these 94mm valves are fro...

The engine already has some

No iv got no idea what it produces sorry. But the block has been decked to a point where the pistons come up level with it and the pistons have some serious pocketing. Must be running some serious compression. Iv got a modified dizzy that came with it but again specs are unknown

It's sitting in the back of my garage, internally it looks well engineered and pretty much brand new. Apparently it was built for a side car racer.

Thanks junior pm sent

Thanks guys am ideally looking for single lobed fast road. Iv got full 1.5 race heads with cams but there no good to me, got them with a 1350 race engine a few years ago. Ideally I'd like to find some second hand C&B fast road cams, either that or am gona have to sell a kidney to fund this build :ro...

Thanks shrew, you don't think that Tom at BLS might have some second hand ones kicking about do you?

Am looking into options for building a fast road 1.7 engine, one thing that's going to be expensive are the cams. At £600 for C+B fast road cams! I already have some twin lobed fast road cams and was wondering if it's possible to swap these cams and carriers for the single lobed ones. Considering th...

Its an easy fix, the faffing about was trying to work out why the latch wouldn't hold the door fully shut. It closed ok on the first click but wouldn't click for the second "fully closed" position. Leaving the door standing proud. To test if it's the spring open your door and turn the latch by hand,...

Iv had this problem, after much faffing it turned out to be a broken spring in the latch mechanism

Colin

I have some original trico new old stock LHD wiper arms if your interested ? I may well have the same blades if I have a dig about

Col

Hi Liam I was told you only need 40mm valves if your going wild cams in a full race set up. What veesix says makes sense mate.

Theres a couple of alfasud boss's on ebay, the second one looks to be the same depth as the one i just sold, it was an extra deep one that brings the steering wheel closer to the driver. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Luisi-steering-wheel-boss-hub-Alfa-Romeo-AlfaSud-Arna-/192265880799?hash=item2cc3f084df...

Is anyone making the pilgrimage to mitcar's this year? A couple of us are thinking of making the trip from up north

Col

I recently sold one with a home made linkage, its the linkage thats hard to get hold of. did this come from Jon?

I have a momo steering wheel boss for said car if anyones interested?

Col

I'd need to ship it to the north east as well lou so it might well turn out to be a little rich for me considering it'll need a refresh as well

Sorry, col

Is the 1.7 short motor still available?

How much do you want for it?

So no internals with the bare blocks Inc the 89mm block?

Col

So I presume the short motor is in as good a condition as the full motor?

I'll pm you for further detail

Col

Hi am looking for a 1.7 block. You say it just needs a strip and clean, does that mean the block internals are good and it doesn't need bearings or rings etc?

Have you heard it running?

col

I'm having the same problem on a ducellier electronic coil I have. Does anyone know if an Electronic system coil is any different to a point based one. Theres loads advertised on ebay but no mention if they're for electronic or points??