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Jun 25, 2020 22:31:12 GMT
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Everything connected up properly now. Proper fuse box fitted. Better outlet from fuel tank fitted plus electric fuel pump just to be sure. Now have spark and fuel but another problem has loomed. Refitted low mileage engine after outwardly cleaning it up with DCOE carb and better exhaust but the original starter motor. Now it struggles to turn over at a decent speed, accompanied by a screeching sound and won't fire. Yes I've checked the earths. At that point today I ran out of patience and had a go at some paintwork. The fibreglass wings have been on a number of my previous racing SIMCAs. and some serious rubbing down was needed through the various layers of paint. Local motor factors supplied a really good match for the original 'Bleu Metallise' in aerosols which have done the top half of the wings and will deal with touching up elsewhere. Lower half I've decided on a two tone in Ford Le Mans Blue that I just happen to have in the garage. Tomorrow will double check everything... Something's just occurred to me re the screeching. Years ago On a road trip one of my SIMCAS suffered this. The water pump eventually seized. I'd had the hose off that points upwards from the pump. When I stripped the pump down I found a small bolt embedded into the impeller... I must have dropped it in there while working on the car. Surely I've not managed to do that again years later. ?
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Jun 19, 2020 11:47:15 GMT
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Regarding the NEC. My brother Kev, Sister in law Lesley and I organise our club stand at the March NEC Restoration show. A couple of years ago we had the orange 'Youngtimer Trophy' Rallye 2 on the stand. We'd planned to have it there again this year along with KEV's 1200S Bertone Coupe (based on the 1000 Rallye running gear) and a SIMCA 1000 project but the lockdown intervened. The Youngtimer Trophy car, as with SIMCA Rallyes in France & Germany etc has been taken much further than the Rallye 3 and, still with 1294cc turns out a reliable 130bhp.
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Jun 19, 2020 11:26:55 GMT
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gazw I'll see if we still have any contact info for the guy who had the Rallye 1. Otherwise the SIMCA club would be grateful for the donation. I'll message you and send you a PDF copy of our club mag if you let me have an email. The Rallye 1 was a 1294cc version of the SIMCA 1000 with just a single small solex carb.... 'strangling' it to 60bhp. (Ron Jones got much more from it) The rest of Europe got the Rallye 2 with wilder cam, twin twin choke sidedraught solex carbs and 4 wheel disc brakes plus front mounted rad. The Rallye 2 produced 82bhp, 86 on later cars. To mark the end of SIMCA 1000 production in 1978, SIMCA made just 1000 Rallye 3's, a 103bhp 'homologation special' which came with all the group 2 parts previously available as a kit... race cam, 40 DCOE Webers, close ratio box, Koni suspension, offset wider alloys under a special bodykit. Only one example of the Rallye 3 came to the UK when new and was raced in touring cars with some success by Neville Knight and Ron Jones was his 'engine man'.... until it was decided that Group 1 (that the Rallye 3 was classed as in mainland Europe) allowed much more than RACMSA Group 1 over here and it was banned, racing in later years in road saloons etc. Only the Rallye 1 fitted the Group 1 touring car regs over here at the time. Phil Hart in our club now has that Rallye 3. I have a rare in the UK Rallye 2, a '75 car imported in '79 hence the V reg. see photos. car on trailer is a Rallye 3.
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Jun 16, 2020 20:02:20 GMT
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Fan housing with corner cut out fitted. Carb goes in there OK but getting to manifold bolts and plugs is a real contortionist's job. next job is to turn some plugs to block off 'plumbing' no longer needed with this manifold.
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Last Edit: Jun 16, 2020 20:03:00 GMT by scmick
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Jun 15, 2020 17:34:10 GMT
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Photos above in wrong order... solution for cab linkage comes up before the problem..!!
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Jun 15, 2020 17:32:40 GMT
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I did find it, just before I finished work in the garage for the day.
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Jun 14, 2020 23:10:03 GMT
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Ignore the wooden block... it's only holding the space while I find the other engine mounting in the 'safe place' where I put it..!!!
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Jun 14, 2020 22:42:25 GMT
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Have realised should have clipped wiring back in original place on bulkhead behind tank. No way is it coming out again and round the front above the rad seems a more logical place to me. Doubting the logic of the original French designers.. ?
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Tank & surrounding metalwork back in after much cursing getting all the screws and brackets to line up.
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I've been with the AA for many years. Used them a few times with my SIMCas and before that my Magenta kitcar. Probably been lucky but patrol men who I got were interested in the old cars... a couple of them said it's a change to work on something easy. Experience with my Espace that was my 'modern' back in the '90s was different. Threw all its coolant out on the M42. Patrol man came out said straight off 'head gasket' without looking further. Then wait a few hours for flatbed. Once home, before having the head off, fitted new thermostat (in line in the hose) and it worked spot on...it did another 100k miles after that.
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I've had my fleet of SIMCAs with RH for years and have found them good to deal with. They seem to have an age sliding scale with my '67 SIMCA 1200S coupe being cheaper than my '70s 1000 Rallye 2, 1000GLS and 1100 and those being cheaper than my '84 SIMCA/Talbot pickup.... so not sure where the MGF would fit in there.
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May 31, 2020 18:29:44 GMT
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