1970 Ginetta G15

Imp Sport 875cc - and the 998 a Special Imp Rallye / Rallye Imp - the benefit in the G15 with the rad up the front the engine driven fan was removed which liberated up to 7BHP, plus with a good rad up front and a large water capacity due to the front to back tubes the G15 never suffered from overheating even without a fan fitted ! Superb engine derived from Coventry Climax. A company that knew how to build a performance engine.

The 875 Sport chucks out 55BHP and the 998 I have should be good for 75BHP - The Red Historic Rally G15 puts out over 100BHP

Is it sad I knew that was a janspeed even from 2x1 inch photo on a cell phone

Well then

JVV which is #13 - 1968 - is Currently Red and will remain Red and is being built up with a tall block 1200cc engine derived from a special Chesman engine and Janspeed large bore manifold and BMW K100 throttle bodies with special Elan derived drive shafts.

BOY which is #100 - 1970 - is currently White and will end up Audi Papaya - its a Chesman 998 but not the recent Greetham/Chesman 998 I picked up but another one and will be on a Large bore manifold - induction not decided - and another pair of Elan shafts

KBW which is #609 - 1972 - is currently White and could well be staying white but that's not certain as we got a job lot of Yellow in the parts with SLC. KBW will run a warm 875 with a small bore Janspeed system Strommies and stock 7/8" shafts

SLC which is #655 - 1973 - is Currently in clear Gel but was Burgundy and will be RAL Pure Orange and run a ported 875 Sport with a Janspeed small bore and a pair of Strommies on 7/8" shafts

PHX which is #686 - 1973 - is currently Red but may turn blue in the near future - It runs a fully ported rally spec 1020 with a Janspeed combined on twin 40 DCOE's and runs on 1" Shafts and now with uprated bolts due to the exhaust incident.

Also in there was a picture of

HYK which is #174 -1971- in a Land Rover Orange I think - full race 1040 with a combined manifold running Twin 40's 1" Shafts

I cannot think of any others at this time that will be making any sort of appearances in this thread - In the main it will be about BOY know as BOY, KBW known as Kibble and SLC known as Slick. With the odd appearance of PHX Known as the Historic Rally G15. Oh and JVV probably, known as Mr B's 15

But mostly it will be about BOY, Kibble and Slick.

That should hopefully clear up any confusion.

I've definitely mentioned this before but I love G15s great to see so many being nursed back to health!

And PHX was out competing in the 2018 Tour Of Cheshire - About to set of on the Oulton test here by the looks of it. As historic Rally cars go this is about the lowest you are ever likely to see.

The eagle eyed among you will note that there appears to be more than one being worked on, you will be quite correct in this observation as having had a few G15's every single one has had a shot gearchange.

Onwards we go.

Once we have brought the gate up to scratch





It is time to sort out the lever. - Now before you attempt to take this apart to fix you need to get yourself a new pivot ball - the good old club of Imps have had these manufactured so they can supply as can most of the well known Imp suppliers like Malcolm Anderson etc.




Remove the remaining part of the old two part pivot and give the stick a good clean and inspect the ball part of the ball joint end making sure that little spring loaded ball is still there.



knock the pin out and remove the steel sleeve and throw it in the odds and ends bin






Drop the new nylon pivot on the shaft and pop the pin back in



Drop it back into the gate with a bit of lube - I used rubber grease





And button it up - one done in situ if just doing the ball.



And one done on the bench



The other part that wears is the cup part of the joint.





Which will require more weldy grindy fettle if you are to do the job to the bestest of your abilities



As I cant find any pictures of post fettle you will need to accept that they look like new when I have finished.

I taught Darkspeed everything he knows.

What! - You have an Imp, you are a member of the Imp Club and you have not downloaded and digested the Aladdin's cave that is the Imp spares parts list - My goodness man, Bob should be your best mate. He is very useful chap to get to know, especially if you are searching for something specific because if he does not have it he is a central point of contact for peeps to ask if he "knows of anyone that might want" - The " Hi Bob I have a shed full of old sport heads and race cams any idea where..." may not happen every week but things like that happen - I cannot believe how many club members ask on the forum where they can get this that or the other when its all in the spares list usually at far less than anywhere else. Can you tell I think Bob is great

re the above repaired manifold
just repaired my janspeed off the clan due to rot were the skid plate was on the 180 deg bends was a lot cheeper than £800 quoted for a new system but mr maynard wanted 500 repaired went to a specialist exhaust place in stockport (nr manchester) did the lot for £100 lol