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I'm not trying to pick holes, but I could see there was a reason why you weren't keen on divulging which series you had experience with.
The K-Series is hardly the pinnacle of reliability, either.
There is no need to be so defensive, I am not trying to pick another argument.
To make you happy, I have no circuit series under my belt - amateur or otherwise. But then, you've made no effort to quantify your point, at all - there is nothing wrong with healthy discussion
I'm quite interested in your experiences with the A-series and what the control modifications were for the Miglias was, as I hope to be building an A-series once the Strada is done to replace this old lump;
The K-Series is hardly the pinnacle of reliability, either.
There is no need to be so defensive, I am not trying to pick another argument.
To make you happy, I have no circuit series under my belt - amateur or otherwise. But then, you've made no effort to quantify your point, at all - there is nothing wrong with healthy discussion
I'm quite interested in your experiences with the A-series and what the control modifications were for the Miglias was, as I hope to be building an A-series once the Strada is done to replace this old lump;
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Looks like that car's seen a few too many motorway miles.
I'm not trying to pick holes, but I could see there was a reason why you weren't keen on divulging which series you had experience with.
The K-Series is hardly the pinnacle of reliability, either.
There is no need to be so defensive, I am not trying to pick another argument.
To make you happy, I have no circuit series under my belt - amateur or otherwise. But then, you've made no effort to quantify your point, at all - there is nothing wrong with healthy discussion
I'm quite interested in your experiences with the A-series and what the control modifications were for the Miglias was, as I hope to be building an A-series once the Strada is done to replace this old lump;
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I have no qualms about telling you what series, I told you as soon as I saw you ask!
There is no point looking at a Se7en/Miglia engine for a fast road car due to the tight controls, their track speed is mainly from weight, the slick tyres and diff ratio. My Se7en was a standard (although balanced and blueprinted) 1000cc engine, the only modifications allowed at the time were an MG Metro camshaft and bigger valves. Carburation was limited to 1 single choke so I had a Weber 45DCOE and only used one half of it. Miglias had similar but less restrictive controls and used a 1300cc engine instead.
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I'm not trying to pick holes, but I could see there was a reason why you weren't keen on divulging which series you had experience with.
The K-Series is hardly the pinnacle of reliability, either.
There is no need to be so defensive, I am not trying to pick another argument.
To make you happy, I have no circuit series under my belt - amateur or otherwise. But then, you've made no effort to quantify your point, at all - there is nothing wrong with healthy discussion
I'm quite interested in your experiences with the A-series and what the control modifications were for the Miglias was, as I hope to be building an A-series once the Strada is done to replace this old lump;
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I genuinely find these cross-forum acronyms quite amusing. Keep it up
Wicksta, I was more interested in hearing about them, than actually putting them into practice, but fair enough.
How do you go about using half of a 45 then?
Wicksta, I was more interested in hearing about them, than actually putting them into practice, but fair enough.
How do you go about using half of a 45 then?
Special manifold and just block off half of the carb. I still have and old converted one at my parents house I think, I'll have a look next time. The casting cracked on it so I had to replace it.
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I genuinely find these cross-forum acronyms quite amusing. Keep it up
It's very true though isn't it. I remember you posting that rusty heap of scaffolding a year ago or something. Yet another MikeH load of tosh. Keep it up.
That didn't stop my dad
and 23 years after it's completion, still going strong.
Pretty sure he took on that project on to get away from my mother while she was pregnant and to get away from the screaming offspring
Where there's a will there's a way, the this time next year attitude gets you nowhere, just leaves you with a rusty heap slowly returning to the ground. Maybe if you didn't spend all day/night arguing that a track **** is a better buy than a car that's been going up and down the motorway, you'd get somewhere with it. Just a thought.
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Time for me to bite on this one I guess. Since Wicksta's racing history wasn't enough for you, how about mine? I raced 2 seasons in the Ferrari challenge with 2 of our own race prepared 360's. Both of these had extreme mods to the cooling systems and were fairly unstressed engines yet we had to have them rebuilt every season at least once, not to mention the failures we had mid race.
If Ferrari's are too unreliable to satisfy you then how about the Goald, Evo VII RA and the Lola f1 cars that my dad and I hill climbed regularly? All of those required major maintenance throughout the season, something that would not have occurred driving to and from the event repeatedly.
If Ferrari's are too unreliable to satisfy you then how about the Goald, Evo VII RA and the Lola f1 cars that my dad and I hill climbed regularly? All of those required major maintenance throughout the season, something that would not have occurred driving to and from the event repeatedly.
Mike - please stop digging this hole for yourself! You've already made it to Australia and are very succesfully making the return journey. It's utter nonsense what you are saying.
The wear rate for an engine, properly cooled, serviced or otherwise, while hammered around a track is going to be dramatically higher than any kind of road use.
You want proof? Ask anyone who races cars with essentially standard road engines; how often do you need to rebuild your engine? and what happens if you don't?
Before you ask - yes there are plenty of series that use modern engines - guess what they also need rebuilding after a few thousand miles at most, compared to what? a 100 thousand miles of road use (badly maintained or not!)
I'm quite certain that if you transplanted the engine from my race car, back into a road car it would happily do many 10s of thousands of motorways miles - yet if I don't rebuild it after couple of thousand miles of track use (or preferably much less) something significant will fail leaving me with hefty rebuild bill or even a worthless lump of metal! The exact life of different kind of engines may vary on track - but fundamentally it's going to be massively shorter than if that same engine was used on the road regarless of how many cold starts, spirited A road drives, steady rpm motorway miles etc you throw at it!
The wear rate for an engine, properly cooled, serviced or otherwise, while hammered around a track is going to be dramatically higher than any kind of road use.
You want proof? Ask anyone who races cars with essentially standard road engines; how often do you need to rebuild your engine? and what happens if you don't?
Before you ask - yes there are plenty of series that use modern engines - guess what they also need rebuilding after a few thousand miles at most, compared to what? a 100 thousand miles of road use (badly maintained or not!)
I'm quite certain that if you transplanted the engine from my race car, back into a road car it would happily do many 10s of thousands of motorways miles - yet if I don't rebuild it after couple of thousand miles of track use (or preferably much less) something significant will fail leaving me with hefty rebuild bill or even a worthless lump of metal! The exact life of different kind of engines may vary on track - but fundamentally it's going to be massively shorter than if that same engine was used on the road regarless of how many cold starts, spirited A road drives, steady rpm motorway miles etc you throw at it!
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The problem with that is that MikeHiow has extensive motorsport experience. Your crappy Ferraris and F1 cars just aren't a patch on the sort of racing MikeHiow is into.
Can you just IMAGINE the expense of driving those cars on the motorway if thats how unreliable they are in the stress-free world of driving them on a track?
EDIT: P.S. You have the coolest life ever and I'm extremely jealous!
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