Well, heres my bros SS1, its about time it got a thread of its own.
At a show a few years back a guy walked over to the reliant stand and started talking to my bro and they disapeared off together, my bro returned with a phone number for the guy as he had a scimitar he wanted rid of.
obviously we booked a trailor and picked it up for free!
the guy was getting old cars, scrubbing them up, bodging the rust and giving them a quick respray then selling them on, the ss1 was a failed attempt.
it had been painted deep metalic purple, which was lifting, the hood was a wreck, one sill was farked with tons of patches but the other brand new.
these things are much like an elan with a back bone chassis and then sills also add ot the strength, we climbed under it, had a poke and decided the back bone was ok and therefore no need to remove the tub (its a kinda space frame design).
in the following year we:
- replaced the sill and various other bits of rot
- rebuilt the rear susspension with superflex bushes
- fitted all new copper brake lines and goodrich hoses
- stripped and painted the entire chassis
- rebuilt the front and rear frames (or armatures acroding to reliant!?!)
- rebuilt the front susspension with superflex bushes, new wheel bearing (un beleiveably rare) and beefed up the damper mount (its chevette wishbones and uprights, with modified hubs and wheel bearings, and an inboard damper)
- uprated to vented brakes
- got the master cylinder re bored and rebuilt it.
- resprayed it black (except bonnet)
- put battery in the boot
engine wise we got a good CVH hemi out of a mates XR2 which had a mild cam, tidied the head abit and bashed some 40dcnfs on it (my bro wanted to for quick gains, althought they where well over the top)
we wanted to get it to curbrough sprint circuit for a the scimitar weekend, this had been our big target, we were due to leave on the friday, the week leading upto it went somthing like:
Monday - paint bodywork
tuesday - more paint, clean up rims (tyre man was amazed when we turned up to get old naff tyres taken off the rims, and then reapread the next day with them gleaming ready for new tyres!)
wednesday - deleiverd it to the rolling road man where it made 117hp
thursday - got it back, fitted some trim took it for its MOT, changed the bonnet for one with a hole in to miss the carbs
friday - set off bright and early to birmingham, however it had rained and its not very water tight so we had to sit on towls.
about 3 weeks later it was back at the show we were given it at 1 year ago! not a bad turn around!
anyway, pics....
and a bad picture of the 'team' minus dad; behind the camera
however, we get bored pretty quickly, so we collected some parts up and before christmas my bro stripped the head off ready for some fun... since then we have been very busy with other things meaning no car related advances realy meaning it looked like:
until now!!!
I have time off work and over the next few weeks I will be:
- Building up the Ahmed Bayjoo stage 3 head with valves like dinner plates; using solid lifters, double springs and a rally cam
- cleaning up piston CROWNs and block deck.
- testing the head onto the block with some pastercene or the like there to check the said valves arnt going to hit into the pistons
- once I'm happy its all OK I will be stripping out the cross beam (for access to cam belt)
- bolting down the head with ARP re useable head bolts and a new cam belt onto our nice new vernier cam pulley
- refit said cross bar and shocks
- rebuilt twin 40s and fit to the nicely acid dipped, matched inlet manifold
- connecting up water pipes and disi
- making a custom tubular manifold from a escort / fiesta Ashley 4-2-1 and trying to connect to the existing stainless system, if not I will just poke it out the side
- make the breather system abit more effective
- tax and insure and deliver to the rollers for a full tune where we will hopefully be told we have reached our 150+hp target!
then next winter it will get its brand new freshly bored and decked 1640 bottom end....
updates tomo hopefully (tidying sh!t up allowing)
At a show a few years back a guy walked over to the reliant stand and started talking to my bro and they disapeared off together, my bro returned with a phone number for the guy as he had a scimitar he wanted rid of.
obviously we booked a trailor and picked it up for free!
the guy was getting old cars, scrubbing them up, bodging the rust and giving them a quick respray then selling them on, the ss1 was a failed attempt.
it had been painted deep metalic purple, which was lifting, the hood was a wreck, one sill was farked with tons of patches but the other brand new.
these things are much like an elan with a back bone chassis and then sills also add ot the strength, we climbed under it, had a poke and decided the back bone was ok and therefore no need to remove the tub (its a kinda space frame design).
in the following year we:
- replaced the sill and various other bits of rot
- rebuilt the rear susspension with superflex bushes
- fitted all new copper brake lines and goodrich hoses
- stripped and painted the entire chassis
- rebuilt the front and rear frames (or armatures acroding to reliant!?!)
- rebuilt the front susspension with superflex bushes, new wheel bearing (un beleiveably rare) and beefed up the damper mount (its chevette wishbones and uprights, with modified hubs and wheel bearings, and an inboard damper)
- uprated to vented brakes
- got the master cylinder re bored and rebuilt it.
- resprayed it black (except bonnet)
- put battery in the boot
engine wise we got a good CVH hemi out of a mates XR2 which had a mild cam, tidied the head abit and bashed some 40dcnfs on it (my bro wanted to for quick gains, althought they where well over the top)
we wanted to get it to curbrough sprint circuit for a the scimitar weekend, this had been our big target, we were due to leave on the friday, the week leading upto it went somthing like:
Monday - paint bodywork
tuesday - more paint, clean up rims (tyre man was amazed when we turned up to get old naff tyres taken off the rims, and then reapread the next day with them gleaming ready for new tyres!)
wednesday - deleiverd it to the rolling road man where it made 117hp
thursday - got it back, fitted some trim took it for its MOT, changed the bonnet for one with a hole in to miss the carbs
friday - set off bright and early to birmingham, however it had rained and its not very water tight so we had to sit on towls.
about 3 weeks later it was back at the show we were given it at 1 year ago! not a bad turn around!
anyway, pics....
and a bad picture of the 'team' minus dad; behind the camera
however, we get bored pretty quickly, so we collected some parts up and before christmas my bro stripped the head off ready for some fun... since then we have been very busy with other things meaning no car related advances realy meaning it looked like:
until now!!!
I have time off work and over the next few weeks I will be:
- Building up the Ahmed Bayjoo stage 3 head with valves like dinner plates; using solid lifters, double springs and a rally cam
- cleaning up piston CROWNs and block deck.
- testing the head onto the block with some pastercene or the like there to check the said valves arnt going to hit into the pistons
- once I'm happy its all OK I will be stripping out the cross beam (for access to cam belt)
- bolting down the head with ARP re useable head bolts and a new cam belt onto our nice new vernier cam pulley
- refit said cross bar and shocks
- rebuilt twin 40s and fit to the nicely acid dipped, matched inlet manifold
- connecting up water pipes and disi
- making a custom tubular manifold from a escort / fiesta Ashley 4-2-1 and trying to connect to the existing stainless system, if not I will just poke it out the side
- make the breather system abit more effective
- tax and insure and deliver to the rollers for a full tune where we will hopefully be told we have reached our 150+hp target!
then next winter it will get its brand new freshly bored and decked 1640 bottom end....
updates tomo hopefully (tidying sh!t up allowing)
and sort it out, so me and my other brother (skodfather) set to and decided to firstlly set the cam timing to the bookthis was done using a dial guage to determin TDC and working from there:
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