54 Chevy 383 Healey 100 - Cartoon Channel

Slight amount of hose bodging to get the cooling working.



Only 'major' jobs left to do are install the throttle cable, put in the driver's seat and make a raising block so my poor little size sevens can actually reach the pedals ;D

LOVE IT!


I've been following this thread since it's creation and I absoluetly LOVE this car!! It's looking fantastic!! Dash looks great, the electrics look great, even the oil cooler duct looks great!!!!!

Is it going to be at RR? I would love to see it in the flesh!

Love it man, I have a proper soft spot for side exits!

Some of the trackday / shakedown day pictures are in. It was the best of times; the worst of times. I could drive it for the first time in sixteen months but not everything went right but I didn't stuff it

Got to Keevil, had the newbie briefing, went out on the acclimatisation laps and then the open pit lane started. The car went very well but we had a water dump problem after every run and we hadn't taken any water! However the most enterprising team member begged a can full of the old cooling fluid from the event organisers

Where's the leak???



then a few drops of oil appeared at the front and the back so out came the jack



It looked like the timing cover seal had given up and that we were losing
copious amounts of oil from the back axle.



and eventually the vibration caused one of the bonnet locks so get out of sequence so we couldn't get the the bonnet open - end of play :cry: :cry: :cry:



H O W E V E R

the good parts were awesome

She goes like a scalded cat in a straight line
Got the popular vote as the best sounding car of the day
Out-accelerated a Porsche 997 GT3 RS (he may have been in the wrong gear but I don't care ;D )
Goes round corners better than I thought for a 1954 car with a huge weight in the front
and the brakes, while needing upgrading, still hauled her down to a reasonable cornering speed from 110mph without fading too much

These are off the event photographer's website hence the watermarks

WATERMARKS NOW REMOVED





this is the view most of the other drivers saw of us on the straights



them Caterhams are buggers in the twisty bits though and then I spun out through a combination of over-enthusiasm, too much steering input and rear wheel steer and, of course, a lack of talent.



Go away you nimble git



So now it's back to sorting oil leaks, putting in an expansion tank to stop the overflow, fix the bonnet catches, get an MOT etc etc etc

Not going to make Retro Rides with these probs though

Tigran,

you can always arrange an RR meet at Sandbanks sometime in September and I may even manage to get there

Cheers,

Ian

'H O W E V E R' it looks incredible and I'd guess it sounds amazing and you had probably the coolest car there!

This Sunday was the first opportunity to get the three UK V8 Healeys together, along with some friends





the friends as well







The good news from the day was I got 28mpg over 120 miles; the bad news was burning rubber smells and the engine sounding like a sack of spanners being rattled on the way back. Nothing was awry on the gauges so I continued home and there discovered that the absolutely brand new alternator had lunched its front bearing and then lunched itself. Happy days!

Jim,

it depended on model rather than year. If I remember correctly there were only three variations with the 'v' shaped grille on the 4-cylinder cars and two types of oval grille on the later 6-cylinders ones.

Cheers,

Ian

Nice to see an update on this beast!