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Jul 27, 2019 15:20:12 GMT
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Last Edit: Apr 30, 2021 19:56:21 GMT by peteh1969
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teaboy
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Jul 27, 2019 15:50:22 GMT
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Half decent Eh ? Missed you last few appointments at 'Specsavers' then - no doubt that will be because you cant read the appointment card with your current glasses  'Half decent' is gushing praise coming from a Yorkshreman, as I'm sure you are aware. I would like Grumps to paint my car, but at the speed I work he will most probably have retired by the time it's ready for that.  |
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Jul 27, 2019 17:36:06 GMT
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You've gone about this the right way, rebuilding everything before you get the car back from paint. I did not😩.
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Jul 27, 2019 18:18:08 GMT
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Half decent Eh ? Missed you last few appointments at 'Specsavers' then - no doubt that will be because you cant read the appointment card with your current glasses 'Half decent' is gushing praise coming from a Yorkshreman, as I'm sure you are aware. I would like Grumps to paint my car, but at the speed I work he will most probably have retired by the time it's ready for that. I don't think that I'll be retiring anytime soon - I'm more happy in my workshop than anywhere else (well most of the time anyway) and at the rate that this government is going none of us will be able to afford to retire even if we wanted to - which sort of suits me if I prefer being in the workshop |
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scimjim
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Jul 27, 2019 20:30:22 GMT
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Lovely stuff and obviously bookmarked to follow on from Chris’s thread - but I find it hard to believe that you’re spending this much on the car and doing everything right - but you’ve refitted a nylon cam gear? A well known failure point and reasonably cheap to replace with all steel or alloy?
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Darkspeed
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Jul 27, 2019 20:48:50 GMT
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Lovely stuff and obviously bookmarked to follow on from Chris’s thread - but I find it hard to believe that you’re spending this much on the car and doing everything right - but you’ve refitted a nylon cam gear? A well known failure point and reasonably cheap to replace with all steel or alloy? I did think the same when I noticed the nylon gear being reused but is it a common failure point on the V4's as well ? - It's doing far less work than on the V6. |
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Last Edit: Jul 27, 2019 20:49:40 GMT by Darkspeed
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Jul 27, 2019 21:07:45 GMT
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Well there is nothing wrong with using the original type cam drive gear and they only failed when the engines had not been regularly serviced and the old contaminated engine oil causes the material to degrade, modern engine oils of the correct viscosity do not cause this problem as they are of a different composition to older engine oils made decades ago, most of the V4 engines out there in transits, capri's or corsair 1700 or 2000 still have the original gears fitted and are perfectly ok.
I don't want or need the engine to produce stupid amounts of power and the 90bhp of the standard engine will be enough for me so no need to fit the metal gear and have the engine sound like a hair dryer with a wonky blade.
Engines like the V6 need the metal gear but a standard V4 does not need it.
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Jul 27, 2019 23:35:13 GMT
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I had not heard that the cam drives were the weak point on the V4 - weakest point on V4 originally was the oil pump drive for which they were renowned for snapping in the early years of the engines life
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tristanh
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Jul 28, 2019 10:03:19 GMT
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Great work Pete, I like the sympathetic and clever stuff like the Volvo strut upgrade.
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Whether you believe you can, or you cannot, you're probably right.
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Jul 28, 2019 10:37:14 GMT
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Awesome work from both of you combined...are you keeping the bigger steel wheels in the pics...i think we brush shoulders on a regular basis without knowing..Breakfast meet at the motorcycle museum weather permitting !
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Jul 28, 2019 11:05:45 GMT
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I will be using the 16" x 6.5" steels with modern directional tyres most of the time but I have a set of standard 13" steels a set of D1's and a set of Cosmics for it as well so I have a choice of what boots to fit depending on the event I'm taking it to if needed I can even put a set of wheels in the boot and change them when I get to the event if needed.
Thank you for the complement but the thing that makes the car is all the Restorer's work on getting the body right it's my vision but not my work.
I look forward to seeing you at the breakfast meet.
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Last Edit: Apr 30, 2021 19:58:25 GMT by peteh1969
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Darkspeed
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Jul 28, 2019 12:03:09 GMT
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Imelda the Corsair...  |
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Jul 29, 2019 10:32:41 GMT
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Now if the make of car was a Marcos I could understand the name.
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Darkspeed
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Jul 29, 2019 20:45:36 GMT
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Now if the make of car was a Marcos I could understand the name. It's a "boots" reference..... If I still have to bloody explain it there is no hope for the world. |
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Jul 29, 2019 21:46:04 GMT
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No sorry I get the "boots" reference it's the name that don't get.
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Jul 30, 2019 10:44:37 GMT
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Those carbs look amazing, are they vapour blasted or painted?
Also what did you paint the strut tops with - I need to do my axles and steering bits and not sure what to get
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1966 Ford Cortina GT
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Jul 30, 2019 11:05:18 GMT
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Jim
The carbs were vapor blasted the strut tops and most of the other engine bay parts that are on show were blasted left in bare metal and then painted with Frosts Gloss Chassis Black it's an enamel paint and gives a good finish spayed from a can, if I did it again I would brush it on for better coverage though.
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Phil H
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Jul 30, 2019 15:16:01 GMT
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I'd beg to differ on the cam gear - it's got less lobes to actuate on the V4, but it's also got an inherently "out of balance" balance shaft to move which the V6 doesn't need..
At the end of the day, it's your engine.
Is the choke heater you've fitted a true 12V one, or one normally fed by an alternator feed (like most) in which case will be more like 10V or so with the engine running - which seems to be the normal way Ford did things?
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Jul 30, 2019 18:10:15 GMT
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Phil I'm sorry but you are wrong in the first part of your reply if you study the two pictures below you will see that the balance shaft is driven buy the crank shaft not the cam gear as well as the push rods the cam shaft drives the distributor and from that the oil pump via a Hexagon shaft and that's all.   The one I have will be feed by the the alternator I will be wiring it through a the ignition switch via a fuse and relay so I can isolate it from the rest of the car. |
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Phil H
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Jul 30, 2019 20:03:50 GMT
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My apologies wrt the balance shaft drive - makes sense as it’s a crankshaft balancer. I got confused with other engines with balance shafts which I have in the back of my head ran at half crank speed as they’re counteracting the combustion rather than the crank throw.
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