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And modern Jags (anything with an Ingenium engine).BMW (at least some models)
BMW (at least some models)
Merc C220.
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And you'll want to be changing them frequently on an Ingenium
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Yep, I do!And you'll want to be changing them frequently on an Ingenium
They have a crazy service interval of 21k miles or 2 years, on a Diesel!!!
I only do about 5k a year now but still have oil and filter done annually.
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Hopefully yours won't explode then!Yep, I do!
They have a crazy service interval of 21k miles or 2 years, on a Diesel!!!
I only do about 5k a year now but still have oil and filter done annually.
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One can but hope!Hopefully yours won't explode then!
I have had a precautionary timng gear change to the latest spec which includes a damped intermediate sprocket, and as I'm no longer doing 25k a year (Covid has a lot to answer for
) I should be ok.
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£250,000+ there
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After the monthly classics meet, I saw a DB4 drophead being driven with a bit of verve and mentioned it to an MG (and Aston) restorer friend. 'Chucking around £400Ks worth of motor'. He said it was more like £800K.
Going back to my youf, gf's father had DBs..a 4, 5 and 6. Her first car was a Frog Eye and I gave her lessons in it. Then, after the Frog hit a taxi... It was replaced with a Spitfire. Had to do a bit of work on that, after it 'swing-axled' into a bank. Different days..
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Ahh yes the swing axle tuck under with 'spirited' driving, OK with more sedate driving. That was why the 'tite-a-turn' mod came into being.
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The obvious cure was the proper IRS set up on the GT6 later models. I drove one for a bit. In the days of the tunnel, A roads and no speed camaras, I averaged 75mph from Salisbury to Diss at night. Did notice a bit of chassis flex in the faster corners.
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was it speedwell that did the IRS conversions on the spitfire or just the camber compensator kit
The Speedwell Camber Compensator for Triumph Spitfire & Herald.
Rear control bar for small Triumphs produced by Speedwell Performance Conversions.
www.oldclassiccar.co.uk
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I seem to recall a partial cure was to turn one of the leaves over in the spring, I can’t remember which one, but it changed the ride height & camber. I had a 1600 Vitesse many years ago, with the stiffer springing it wasn’t too bad, but I fitted an engine in a Herald for a friend, took it out to try it & had the dreaded tuck under on a bend with a funny camber, really horrible!
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On our way to Brands for some race in the 60's. In a friend's mothers Herald 12/50 convertable. I could do a couple of laps of the big roundabout with the rear end bumping up and down as the axle tucked and came back. Surprisingly controlable with little touches on the throttle. Watched Clarke in a Lotus Cortina, get in just ahead of a mustang, which I found was owned by a cousin. Mustang had problems in practice, so at back of grid. Charged through the others , but got stuck at a few lengths back from Clarke, who was trailing a thin stream of smoke at the end.
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Of course , swing axles were common on rear engined cars back in the days.. 'Unsafe at any speed' by Ralf Nader killed the Beetle in the US.
School friend's mum had a Dauphine Gordini. They were in it rushing to catch a train, big trunk on the back seat with passenger on top. Bit late turning into the station, ended up going backwards up the steps to the booking office...
School friend's mum had a Dauphine Gordini. They were in it rushing to catch a train, big trunk on the back seat with passenger on top. Bit late turning into the station, ended up going backwards up the steps to the booking office...
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I thought that was a reference to the rear engined Chevrolet Corvair?
Could be wrong, often am!
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Ralf Nader later admitted that he was paid to portray the Corvair as dangerous by i think it was GM as they saw the car as a threat. Apparently the accident record was no worse than any other. Someone in Stroud shoehorned an Corvair engine into a Beetle.
