1970 Ginetta G15

Can you not get a decent sized plenum in that gap? I have thought it would work better than pipes with tight bends and it looks like you have reasonable space.

I see what you mean. Could do with some bulkhead type grommets to join the plenum/tbs instead of short lengths of pipe, although I don't know if they exist in that sort of size or how well they would seal.

Paint! Exciting times

Just when you think you are getting things under control and starting to be sensible someone goes and says something really stupid..


The daughters fiancé was round at the weekend and mentions that he might like a car project similar to the sort of thing I get involved in says he has little put aside and would like to put it toward a car before daughter finds out and it gets absorbed by her ever growing fleet of ponies.

Says he likes the look of the G15 then goes very pale when I tell him the costs involve these days.

I idle away a bit of time here and there.

Facebook - Midas - seller asking a bit much really but it was to gauge a reaction. - "Oooh no"








Facebook and ebay - GTM Rossa - Priced not bad but more than I would like to pay - "Not really"








And there lies the problem when the future father in-law is playing with Strato's G15' Gemini's G27 etc.

Now I was quite taken with the Rossa - Mid engine old school 1275 A series open or hard top option - may be a bit of haggle room - quite local - on the road - I was almost going to mail the seller. Then stupid me I say - If you really want a G15 I can make a call as I know where one is.... A call later I am now making plans to go and collect not one, but two ex race G15's FFS - for the moment its just collection and storage at the farm whilst me and the owner have discussions.

No new Rossa project for DS.... G15's cannot get away from the bloody things. Still like that Rossa - probably destined to be French doors in the dining room instead.

Everybody wants the pretty cars


Not interested in the Variant Ginfire G15 hybrid on eBlag then - That's okay nor was anyone else the first week. - Now there is best offer - Sprint wheels must be worth £100 - I think the entire planet is too faint hearted when it come to that mongrel.




The G21 he had only made £900 - what people failed to realise with that one is that its quite straight forward to register one of those without any paperwork as they are not and never were kits.

Not enough to go in the photo's to say what the chassis either way .

On the G21 - Galv chassis and the full body - buyer must have thought Xmas had come early no matter what the reason it was bought - parts or project.

I still like that Rossa.

Have you dug the sprint car out and taken it home?

Col.

Had a few imps and plenty of tuned parts as you may have noticed in this thread but I have never seen one of these - read about them but never seen one.



From the Impsite


All the sport heads have the oil drain (from head to crankcase) and they all use the same valve sizes.
Sport head casting numbers (not a Rootes part number) with last digits
....107 : the very early sport head, possibly for use with competition cars and the dry-liner 998 Rally Imp from the end of 1965
....162 : 162 fitted to early production Sports up to 1968; the Rallye head casting, basically the same as the 180 cylinder casting but ported and chambered for 150 CD Strombergs and 998cc.
....180 : the most common. It was the later sport head, used until the end of production. It is a thicker casting than the 107, giving more scope for modification.


This one has been modified for Wills rings on a 998 bore and the combustion chambers have been opened up to unshroud the valves.







You can see the difference to a stock Sport 180 head -





It is interesting that the combustion chambers look very factory in the way they are finished - Ports are as cast so no huge ports on this one. We collected nine sport heads in all two 107's and 7 180's one of the 180's was a full fat 1.4/1.125 and others with less wild mods.

Also picked up the racer pedal box

Interesting thing with this - well if you have an interest in these things is that it's the layout of an early car with the bellcrank but its from the shell of a later car.

Some lovely details.




















Note that with the intention to be really standing on the brakes no weight saving holes in that pedal.....


Also worthy of note is that the bellcranks are not as per Ginetta modified from the original IMP pedal have a leverage built in to increase the mechanical advantage onto the M/C's that are all 0.7's It's a really nice solution.

Intriguing!

The hotted up air-cooled flat 4 sounds like a perfect match for a G15!