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Mike, You might find this here a useful read, as it has a table of equivalents. It should be noted that these equivalents aren't guaranteed, as 2 batches of fuel with the same RON can have different MON ratings, and vice-versa. I live in Canada now, and reckon 91 is about equivalent to UK 95RON. We have a couple of stations here that sell 94, but I've not seen anything higher. Most vehicles take 87. 95 would equate to 100 RON and I can't speak for the US, but I've never seen that here, and as far as I know vehicles sold into Canada are the same as for the US (with a few different lighting requirements). Sounds like the maps might be for race fuel or similar. My brotherr in law has a 'Busa and an R6, so I'll ask him what he puts in those. HTH, Jon

Hi Ralph, Have a chat with Adrian Bell. He recommended someone to me, when my car was still on carbs, but I can't remember who. Adrian said he used these people for his race car, which is on carbs. Jon

Can an Apollo tank be fitted to a Vx car? Is there an appropriate sandwich plate available? Jon

Paul, Are you there to do some more work with your exhaust config.? Jon

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Thanks Strongy Jon

Anyone got a reversing light switch going spare? I need the older style one with the single press on connector. Cheers, Jon

That'll be this then... ---------------------------------------------------------- A friend of mine once built a canoe. He spent a long time on it and it was a work of art. Almost the final phase was to fill both ends with polyureathane expanding foam. He duly ordered the bits from Mr Glasplies (an excellent purveyor of all things fibreglass) and it arrived in two packs covered with appropriately dire warnings about expansion ratios and some very good notes on how to use it. Unfortunately he had a degree, worse still two of them. One was in Chemistry, so the instructions got thrown away and the other in something mathematical because in a few minutes he was merrily calculating the volume of his craft to many decimal places and the guidelines got binned as well. He propped the canoe up on one end, got a huge tin, carefully measured the calculated amounts of glop, mixed them and quickly poured the mixture in the end of the canoe (The two pack expands very rapidly). I arrived as he was completing this and I looked in to see the end chamber over half full of something Cawdors Witches would have been proud of. Two thing occurred to me, one was the label which said in big letters "Caution - expansion ratio 50:1" (or something similar) and the other that the now empty tins said "approximately enough for 20 small craft." Any comment was drowned out by a sea of yellow brown foam suddenly pouring out of the middle of the canoe and the end of the canoe bursting open. My friend screamed and leapt at his pride and joy which was knocked to the ground as he started trying to bale handfuls of this stuff out with his hands. Knocking the craft over allowed the still liquid and not yet fully expanded foam to flow to the other end of the canoe where it expanded and shattered that end as well. A few seconds later and we had a canoe with two exploded ends, a mountain of solid foam about 4ft high growing out of the middle, and a chemist firmly embedded up to his armpits in it. At this stage he discovered the reaction was exothermic and his hands and arms were getting very hot indeed. Running about in small circles in a confined space while glued to the remains of a fairly large canoe proved ineffective so he resorted to screaming a bit instead. Fortunately a Kukri was to hand so I attacked the foam around his hands with some enthusiasm. The process was hindered by the noise he was making and the fact he was trying to escape while still attached to the canoe. Eventually I managed to hack out a lump of foam still including most of his arms and hands. Unfortunately my tears of laughter were not helping as they accelerated the foam setting. Seeking medical help was obviously out of the question, the embarrassment of having to explain his occupation (Chief Research Chemist at a major petrochemical organisation) would simply never have been lived down. Several hours and much acrimony later we had removed sufficient foam (and much hair) to allow him to move again. However he still looked something like a failed audition for Quasimodo with red burns on his arms and expanded blobs of foam sticking everywhere. My comment that the scalding simple made the hairs the foam was sticking to come out easier was not met with the enthusiasm I felt it deserved. I forgot to add that in retrospect rather unwisely he had set out to do this deed in the hallway of his house (the only place he later explained with sufficient headroom for the canoe - achieved by poking it up the stairwell. Having extricated him we now were faced with the problem of a canoe construction kit embedded in a still gurgling block of foam which was now irrevocably bonded to the hall and stairs carpet as well as several banister rails and quite a lot of wallpaper. At this point his wife and her mother came back from shopping...... Oh yes - and he had been wearing the pullover Mum in law had knitted him for his birthday the week before. ----------------------------------------------------

Ian, When you replace the big end bearings, check they are all the same size, and that none of the journals have been reground. When we did my conversion, we changed the bearings anyway, and I initially had low oil pressure, and the fault was eventually traced to number 1 journal having been reground in isolation, i.e. 3 out of the for journals were standard size. We checked the old bearing as they came off, but didn't check them all, as they appeared to be standard. Dick at SBD said he'd seen this before on Caterhams, and always Number 1. Maybe Caterham had a batch of reject cranks/engines, and rather then regrind the whole crank, just sorted out the damaged journal. I think your car is a similar vintage to mine. Bets of luck with the rebuild. Jon Edited by - jonhill on 31 Jan 2007 05:47:04

1) No, you'll need new runners, and they're not cheap! 2) I just drilled some holes and bolted them to the floor. Jon

Is your laptop configured to use DHCP? If so, is your router configured as a DHCP server? If you have another computer connected to your router, check its settings. If it's not configured to use DHCP, then you'll need to configure your lappy with it's own IP address (different from the other PC). HTH Jon

Ross, Keep it. If it was your first build project, and regardless of how it's viewed by the rest of society you'll regret selling it in years to come. Sounds like you're not going to get a whole heap of cash for it anyway, so park it up and show it to your Grand kids in years to come. Jon

Nick You can get a cooler thermostat from http://www.courtenaysport.co.uk. IIRC it opens at 82 rather than 92 degrees. I think SBD do a 70 degree one, but at a significant cost. Cheers, Jon Edited by - jonhill on 21 Oct 2006 01:48:17

Nick, Mine says "DECLARED NEW AT FIRST REGISTRATION". As you know, my car was kit built in 1990. Cheers, Jon

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