Scimitry

nice car dingle, you were right i do like it.

and yes it still shocks my friends that there isnt any rust on our corvette! :D
 
lordrobs said:
Isn't it a music video?
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Rabbit in your headlights by uncle, I just though it looked cool.

lordrobs said:
Cool looking car but I know nothing about them, engine sounds interesting :D

Lose the tow bar to gain 5 cool points ;)
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Aye I think its days are numbered, depends if its going to leave a scar. Its not like we'd be able to tow anything anyway!

volospian said:
No, 3.0 V6 Ford Essex, or the 2.8 V6 Cologne from SE6b (I think)
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Yup it was an essex and there is a 2.8...could be that one. The 3.0 only produced 130ish so we should be about 100 up on that.

simisker said:
I now have a new favourite OcUK-member-owned car. Admittedly, I didn't really have an old one, but this is definitely my new favourite. Those Wolfraces were the wheels of my childhood dreams :)

The chocks under the tyres are an encouraging sign :D
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Why thank you! We love chocks :D it stops you waking up in the morning with your car in the dock.
Mattius said:
nice car dingle, you were right i do like it.

and yes it still shocks my friends that there isn't any rust on our corvette! :D
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Not only is there no rust but its got a really good paint job. The whites tcut through in a couple of places but its not that obvious. It needs a damn good clean and polish all over and it should be gleaming. I've sneakily taken all the photos from the polished side ;)

Attu90 said:
I saw one of those in a front end smash once :( , put it this way you would never got me on one.
Saying that i don't suppose many cars of the day were amazingly safe be today's standards ...apart from Volvo's :)
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Yeah there's not a great deal of front end protection. You basically have two chassis rails going forward with a plate between them where the arb goes...and that's it. The rest is fibre glass.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Reliant-Scimi...oryZ9903QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
That's all the solidity you get! oooer!


We also seem to have acquired a complementary water feature. The dehumidifiers got its work cut out on this one! Hmm I wonder where you can buy some back seats for a scimitar....there may be an element of rot setting in!
 
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DingleBerry said:
We also seem to have acquired a complementary water feature. The dehumidifiers got its work cut out on this one! Hmm I wonder where you can buy some back seats for a scimitar....there may be an element of rot setting in!
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Get yourself over to the Scimweb site. The forums are quite decent. I imagine someone will be able to point you in the right direction
 
I've signed up there. But the are taking an age to send the conformation. They may not have taken kindly to my username ;)

I whipped the fuel pump off my mg which should do for now. Didn't have time to try and fit it seeing as it took me about 2 hours to get the damnable thing off. Some retard had fitted the bracket the wrong way up so I had to try and take the whole thing off, which is a pain! Sheared a captive mounting stud in the process which vexed me too.

On the plus side i found my fuel leak. The braided hose connecting the pump to the main copper fuel lines wasn't exactly....braided....or hose for that matter! That will probably save me £60 for a new tank plus however much for the copper fuel lines! Which actually look pretty good if dirty. Which is a start I suppose!

That car really does look better every time I look at it! I'm dying to get it going!

Amusingly we were both sitting in the car and with the mot in mind thought we'd check the belts to see if they would lock .Which they both did...admirably...unfortunately unlocking proved a little more problematic...for both of them. Stupid car!
 
DingleBerry said:
I've signed up there. But the are taking an age to send the conformation. They may not have taken kindly to my username ;)
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I don't think it took long when I signed up. If you want me to ask something while you're waiting, let me know.

You're making me jealous now. I can't wait until this damn holiday is paid for, then I can start spending on my cars again :D
 
They've let me in now. Although their site is buttock clenchingly slow.

I'm getting married this year...I can't afford cars either! The money or the time! Fortunately she likes old cars and getting dirty. And she's quite happy with the cleaning and painting jobs which I hate! Thusly I win!
 
penski said:
She's gonna let you run it for a month? :D

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lol, I'm not including running costs :D

I want a new clutch, the tappets adjusted, some new dampers and the suspension geometry sorted, and maybe new wheels, although I may just go back to the original 16's for a while. Spiders are nice looking, but they don't do much for the handling, ride or turning circle.

I also want to retrim the interior at some stage, plus some ICE.

That'll do for now :D
 
You don't need ice in a trevor!!! Surely the sound of all your money going down the drain is music enough for your ears? Oh and the engine probably sounds ok as well ;)

I don't bother with ice in my old cars, its not like 2mm of steel and 3 mm of 30 year old sweat and skin are particularly effective at deadening the sound of the world ending under your bonnet. In a good way in the scimitar, i hope, and in a bad way in the mg as you rev the **** off it to make it move. Peak power at 5400rpm, are you QUITE mad? Having said that my rover is making a phenominal racket at the moment seeing as the exhaust gasses are mostly making their escape half way down the exhaust.
 
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Psycrow said:
Your bonnet is longer than the rest of the car, looks like a hotrod on stilts or something!
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That's because there is room for a v8 BEHIND the front wheels. You heard me! BEHIND!

The engine doesn't even start until a bout a foot and a half AFTER the front of the bonnet. And the bonnet doesn't start for ages! It has quite a sexual action though.
 
DingleBerry said:
Yup it was an essex and there is a 2.8...could be that one. The 3.0 only produced 130ish so we should be about 100 up on that.
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A 3.5 running on SUs? Unless it's a very well built engine I think you may be somewhat short of that. The 4.0L in the TVR Chimaera only produced an alleged 240bhp (less in reality).
 
The guy we bought it off told us it had been dynoed at 250 at the fly. So depending on where and who by this figure could be miles off. It might also suffer from inflation, the longer ago it was done the larger the figure it becomes ;) We shall see, so far we have zero horses so even a couple would be fine! However many its got it will probably be plenty!
 
penski said:
A fiver says it has about 150bhp.

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I think that is about a standard factory fresh output for an SD1, but DingleBerry says it has vitesse heads and a hotter cam, so depending on the age and quality of the build, and the state of tune, I'd say a bit more than that, around 170-180ish?
 
:p I'm hoping its got a bit more than that as they had that as standard. We will probably never find out anyway seeing as I've no intention of having it dynoed. A bit of digging about suggests 190 with the vitesse heads but it needs to be able to breath properly, whether it can do that through SUs I don't know. How many of these horses have escaped in the last 10 years (when the conversion was alledgedly done) I don't know either.
 
DingleBerry said:
:p I'm hoping its got a bit more than that as they had that as standard. We will probably never find out anyway seeing as I've no intention of having it dynoed. A bit of digging about suggests 190 with the vitesse heads but it needs to be able to breath properly, whether it can do that through SUs I don't know. How many of these horses have escaped in the last 10 years (when the conversion was alledgedly done) I don't know either.
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Remember the vitesse made 190 with efi, not carbs, and a 10 year old rover engine will be a bit tired, to say the least.
 
SU's won't be restricting the breathing, the first thing to do with the RV8 is open up the inlet/outlet ports. SU's should be good for 250ish BHP, the original strombergs might not have been.
 
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