leon

It really is a good idea to remove the apollo bung if at all possible as they have a magnet inside which picks up metal fragments. Not certain if the early ones had this but all the later ones do.

Arch won't take the car but they will repair the chassis if required. Give Andy Belcher at Tech7 a buzz in the morning (if you need his number pm me) he will assess, advise and liaise with insurer and Arch if required and can deal with all the other bits that may be out of shape or damaged. PS. what rotten luck but at least no one hurt and the car was not bent before the trip. Edited by - leon on 25 Jun 2014 22:00:10

Chris, Going to have to pass on the MB alloys as they will be too wide for me. Have a BTTT on me

Dibs on the MB wheels please pending a check on front clearance of wing stays. Can you confirm offsets? Any pics available and what finish? EG. Black centres polished rims. Leon.

Sounds like some of the fellas having setup at Dunsfold for tomorrow, the burnt orange VXL is almost certainly Steve Mell (aka Harry Flatters)

Do a search on dyno-plot.co.uk for dva and vkg, very easy to see that the 2.0 litre is making a lot more torque, and I suspect would get into the 270 bhp area with the correct assembly, matching and mapping. Oily has commented on these components, so worth a search and probably a phone call for a full opinion. I can see the point in looking for an ultimate K rather than going duratec if you already have all the other ancillaries to suit a K ie. Dry sump, exhaust, & throttle bodies, all of which would need to be replaced to convert to duratec. Edited by - leon on 27 Apr 2014 12:59:15

BARGAIN, might put off the casual as it's a cat D but if proper chassis repair /replace was done and documented it's too cheap....

The easiest way to tell at a glance in my experience is to look at the side skin just behind the front wishbone pickup. If the skin has a convex bow it is a metric chassis, if it's a nice straight line then it's Arch inside !

Looks like it's still available on their website, not cheap though. link here Edited by - leon on 13 Mar 2014 19:23:12

Slightly scary figures there. As I understand it :- All modern oil pumps have a pressure relief valve which is generally in the 60 psi range (plus or minus a few psi) If you are getting figures of 90+ psi then you either have a gauge that is misreading or a sticky PRV, if the latter then the oil seals are well beyond design pressures and will fail and eject oil to where it shouldn't be. Seek expert attention before you do more damage.. Sorry to be the harbinger of doom.

Figures all sound right. I would suspect that the idle screw is set to give a fast idle at first start so than the cams get the correct revs to bed in for the first few mins, idling too low will effectively knock some of the lobe off due to bedding in against the valve springs if allowed to idle at 1400 rpm on first engine start.

Captain, YHBM re wheels/tyres. Leon. Edit, just seen that Timbo has 1st dibs, copy me on pics please as fall back? Edited by - leon on 4 Feb 2014 21:13:09 Edited by - leon on 4 Feb 2014 21:14:12

from the brief look I had at installing a duratec a few years ago I think the concensus vas very little;- the bottom end is up to the job at that power level (keyed crank maybe required) the head is very good as std and with forced induction less of an issue than na I seem to remember that circa 250 needed nothing doing to the 'engine' at all, when looking at na engines chasing bigger figures needs more flow from the head and most importantly beefing the bottom end to go over 8000 rpm as you need the extra revs to get more than about 250bhp, with a supercharger you dont need the revs. I think (though am not certain) that the 300R & 620R are virtually stock bottom ends. A search of Ammo's threads will enlighten you further, also worth a look at project YOB on here which was pushing about 340 from a duratec from memory. It's a fun exercise, I'm still toying with a big power K series ???

Quoting menacy: Anybody looked into the possibility of fitting a supercharger to a Duratec 2lt? and would the engine need to be fettled? Cheers Dennis. Yep, Caterham, its called the 620R !

9:30 ish on Sunday morning. I assume you were close to your destination of the Goodwood BC, I was heading north in chrome orange heading for Loxwood. flashed you all up, hope the BC had a good turnout of interesting cars from the 60s, looked nice and quiet for a change.