Many moons ago I bought the remains of a Standard 12 saloon off eBay. It was a rolling chassis with the grill, bonnet and a well rotted bulkhead. What else would you do wit it but build a roadster pickup. The build was deliberately crude and cheap and came in at about a grand.
Fast forward a few years and Mrs Crockpot and I are coming back from near Stamford after a local show when it boiled up. Not once but several times. Got home and shut it in my lockup and left it there. For four years.
I finally bit the bullet a few weeks back and decided that I really had to do something about it. So I pulled the rad out (first culprit after the first block clean when I acquired it). What I could see of the core was not good being clogged solid with "stuff". So on the phone to Leicester radiators who recored it for me . After a quick rebuild it started up after some faffing but not as bad as I expected. But it would not take any throttle opening at all with out going flat and dying (once warmed up). When I stripped the SU's I found the needles were coated in a scale like deposit. Once cleaned it ran spot on.
This is not by any measure a high quality build, it's crude, noisy and rides like a camel on cobbles but I don't care.
The engine has had the block ported, Newman cam (Ford 100e trials profile for torque), skimmed head (after welding up massive amounts of corrosion) very long 4-2-1 exhaust manifold and a home brewed twin carb intake. It was also bored 40 over.
It's correctly registered as a body change.
Fast forward a few years and Mrs Crockpot and I are coming back from near Stamford after a local show when it boiled up. Not once but several times. Got home and shut it in my lockup and left it there. For four years.
I finally bit the bullet a few weeks back and decided that I really had to do something about it. So I pulled the rad out (first culprit after the first block clean when I acquired it). What I could see of the core was not good being clogged solid with "stuff". So on the phone to Leicester radiators who recored it for me . After a quick rebuild it started up after some faffing but not as bad as I expected. But it would not take any throttle opening at all with out going flat and dying (once warmed up). When I stripped the SU's I found the needles were coated in a scale like deposit. Once cleaned it ran spot on.
This is not by any measure a high quality build, it's crude, noisy and rides like a camel on cobbles but I don't care.
The engine has had the block ported, Newman cam (Ford 100e trials profile for torque), skimmed head (after welding up massive amounts of corrosion) very long 4-2-1 exhaust manifold and a home brewed twin carb intake. It was also bored 40 over.
It's correctly registered as a body change.
