54 Chevy 383 Healey 100 - Cartoon Channel

Burger! But you're right, I'll go fix it and then do some other bits. It's addictive ;D

Well Goodwood has come and gone and I didn't get as far as getting the graphics done due to the selected vinyl company fannying around and losing my emails three times over a four week period and general disinterest.

However it's Crystal Palace on Sunday and there's lots of kids there (including me) so I rang another company and it took three days ;D

They're lousy cameraphone pictures because as I was getting the car back to the Bat Cave there were some gentlemen of the scrap persuasion hanging around the estate after hours. Luckily I had recently lubricated the fold back scenery and fake boulder and managed to get under cover without being seen.

Toothy



When the windscreen is folded down it'll look better



I am not a snapper

Ha, that looks excellent! Look forward to seeing it on Sunday.

With your new induction setup, would this be a Rasping Shark then…?

[/gets coat]

Motorsport - that curse word-Whore-Queen that sucks you in, leaves you skint and heartbroken and then spits you out wanting to sell the car and take up gardening. For a £220 outlay in fees and fuel for Crystal Palace I was left with this handful of souvenirs and a scrute sticker



So you get up at 3.45am for a 2.5 hour trailer pull to Sarf London (the organisers want you to sign in from 7.15 and have walked the track :. You start to unload and you note the small marks on the trailer floor but that must be the unreachable rocker cover leak or maybe a little coolant. Sure it smells of fuel but that's the Webers; isn't it?



A quick run down to the paddock and the smell of Mr. BP's finest is worse than ever. Off with the bonnet, on with the fuel pumps and fuel is p1ssing out the back of #2 carb. Must be floats or needle valve so off with top of carb, fiddle with everything, reassemble carb, on with pump, still leaks. Repeat another 6 times which included a 10 minute search for a dropped valve needle in the grass . Obvious I'm not going to fix it with the tools I've brought so leave bonnet off, get the extinguisher ready and drive off with massive fuel leak over the left hand exhaust fanimold. Only bright spot of this time was the old boy who sauntered over and said "I had one of these", moved round to the side of the car and saw the shark teeth and exclaimed "Oh!" and moved off sharpish. RESULT! ;D

Back in the trailer



So off to Pete's today after claiming an emergency day off for sickness in the family ( the car is like my child or is it the other way round?) and it looks like the carb is leaking from the plate with four screws underneath the body. So that's all four carbs off to see if all are affected. Maybe it'll be simple?



There's always something interesting around Pete's because of all the small automotive shops on the estate.

Another Healey being built up

No track time at all but even if I was going quickly the CP sprint is so short that I'd have had less than 2 minutes overall for the whole day!

For my sins I had to tow the Great White Whale of a trailer back through Dulwich, Fulham, Chelsea and Hammersmith to pick up the M4 due to accidents on the M25 and M3. That would have been stressful enough if it was not for the charity bike ride we found ourselves in the middle of.

Glorious car. Just read the whole thread. Hope you manage to get things all sorted and have some decent amount of time to play rather than fix her!

With the graphics I'm taking it as a sign that I need to put something similar on my next purchase (hopefully) as last night, as you do, I was feeling the need for some WWII fighter inspired silliness in my life...

Aaron.

Elmo,

Can't get at the car until the weekend, will check then but suspect it's a BA size.

Cheers,

Ian

.... and the culprit for the recent dismal failure to race at Crystal Palace is .....




.....wait for it ( a la every lousy reality show on TV )




..... just a little more tension now




TA - DA





Yup the 2p's worth of gasket on the bottom plate of the carb. Seems they have gone over to a polymer gasket from the old paper ones and it looks like they shrink when exposed to fuel (in a carburettor :

DUH!

Frankenhealey

I am very cross at you.

I sat at the staging area at retro show for ages waiting to get a shot of you doing a warmup burnout, and you just rolled up with no smoke or flames

I hung around your car in the paddock for ages hoping to meet you in person, but no - you cant be bothered to stand around talking to plebs

I came back later and you had just upped sticks and went home



on the positive side the car was looking great ;D








I was a bit skeptical about the shark teeth in your pics but it really suits the car in the flesh

hope to catch you next time