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adjusting the thumb adjuster does not move it round enough. Any ideas?

Losen dizzy clamp bolt and rotate the dizzy.

Sorry yes should have mentioned that, If I turn the dizzy itself, then it hits the oil pressure pipe. turning it the other way to match up the rotor arm would have it pointing at a very strange angle, which I havnt tried but didnt seem right.

remove and reinstall the dizzy drive.(thats what i had to do)

picky wrote:Sorry yes should have mentioned that, If I turn the dizzy itself, then it hits the oil pressure pipe. turning it the other way to match up the rotor arm would have it pointing at a very strange angle, which I havnt tried but didnt seem right.

As GAS suggests the dizzy drive may have been refitted incorrectly. You would need to check the drive offset slot is in the correct position re the manual with #1 piston at TDC on compression stroke (valves 1 and 2 closed) It's all too easy to refit the drive a tooth or two out.

At least get it started normaly aspirated - eliminate potential faults.
too much studenting going on i reckon !

grab a snap looking down on the dizzy might help

have found that two of the spark plugs are shorting across the insulator, so will replace all of them to eliminate that issue. Ideally I should have some colder plugs in there for the supercharger?

Picky

Just got practical performance mag. I thought I had seen the car somewhere before

It's easy enough to move the dizzy drive spindle round - but don't drop it in the sump - although not as serious a problem as when that happens in a Mini! Obviously the spark must happen when the correct piston is (almost) at TDC. Spark plugs must be knackered - throw them away! I would say Champion N6Y (may have additional fancy letters these days) will be fine. But it will start and run ok on N9Y.

I will try with new plugs before moving the distributor drive round, to try and keep things simple. Are N6Y colder running plugs than N9Y then? the part numbers I have seen on the minispares website appear to be different, they have BP7ES as a cold running plug for tuned street engines. They also have B8EVX for tuned turbos, but they are about £25 a set.

Another issue: the bonnet is not held down, and I believe for the MOT I need two methods of holding down the bonnet for safety. Can I get away with two locking bonnet pins, one either side?

lijked the article in ppc mag pickstar! car is looking really good!

Well mine went through the MOT with just that so I don't think it's an issue.

Would like to see this in the flesh

James

The plugs I list are Champion - the ONLY ones I would use! The BP range are something else and perversely their heat range goes the other way! Yes - N6Y is a colder plug for performance engine use.

read ppc last night and saw your car, looks sweet in the mag.

Has your car actually been used on road with the supercharger on a regular basis?

I seriously don't want to be negative about your car because I fully respect anything done thats different on a budget, its my flavour all over.

Reason I ask is that if it hasn't I am going to loose most of my liking for ppc as a serious mag which is a shame because I look forwrd to it each month.

Reason I would loose faith in the mag is it would make me wonder how many of the other cars that I have seen in there are not actually finished or used or roadworthy but the mag makes out that they are.

Just to restress though I like what you are doing and am not being neg about your car it is the mag that I would be neg about if you haven't really used it with the charger on.

If you have used it loads with the charger on with good performance then at least I can still like the mag as much as I did.

I think you know what I am getting at?

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Not just me who didn't understand any of that, then...
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It's often know as Pratical Classics - for good reason. As far as I know Picky's car has not been on the road. He has had endles problems with the blow through carb/fuel supply - and now with just getting it to start!

What is, PPC? Practical Performance Car, I think you'll find
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Rarely anything useful in either of them - loads and loads of adverts. Interestingly I recently noted in overseas airport that German equivalent type mags sell for considerably less than half the cost of UK mags. Are we just brain-washed into paying over the odds for mags full of adverts?

Dunno - not looked at PC for a long while, after the editor and journos changed again for the worse, and never seen PPC as I have no interest whatever in performance cars. PC was OK for value, AFAIR, when it had some interesting content

yes ppc is practical performance classic. picky's car has been well and truly featured.