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Nigel Fox

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  1. I built a garage and put a two post lift in.

    the lift is from liftech near Preston, cost £1240 fitted in 2016. Very good quality.

    The garage floor is fibre re-enforced concrete 6 inches or more thick in the area of the posts.

    From memory the posts are 2.7 metre high so you need plenty of roof height, mine is flat roofed, 3.5 metre outside height.

  2. Raceline silver top Zetec, RL20 cams, Raceline modified head, ARP rod bolts, Raceline sump, water rail, inlet manifold (for 45mm carbs or throttle bodies), alternator mount.

    Twin Dellorto 45mm carbs, little use.

    Almost new K & N filters.

    Facet fuel pump and Filter King regulator

    Raceline stainless exhaust manifold, some cracks welded up at flange.

    Techcraft repackable silencer, some repairs and re-enforcing, some minor cracks may require further repair.

    Webcon alpha ECU, quite old but worked when removed, complete with loom and instructions. No guarantees.

    Alternator.

    Engine produced over 170bhp with this set up and is capable of over 200bhp on injection.

    The engine has had little road use and been used for sprints and hillclimbs. It was removed from the car in mid 2016, the day after setting a class record at Scammonden hill climb (running injection). The head was removed the Winter 2015/16 at RSM in Morecambe, the valves were lapped, there was no discernible bore wear.

    You would need a bellhousing, flywheel, clutch, starter and engine mounts to fit into a Caterham in place of a cross flow.

    £2500

  3. The requirement for additional springs often arises when the spring has been hidden inside the component by the manufacturer, for example some sidedraught Webers. A scrutineer can’t check whether the spring is intact or missing and will require an additional, visible spring.

  4. The calorific value of propane and butane are almost the same, as you would expect from carbon hydrogen atoms just of different sizes.

    As you use gas, the liquid boils and provides it. This requires heat from the atmosphere. Propane has a much lower boiling point, something like minus 40c instead of minus 2 for butane, 

    So for a plentiful gas supply choose propane.

  5. Another solution which I once used on a Landrover is to use the brake light switch operate a relay which switches the brake lights.

    The current that the brake light switch deals with will be reduced from around 4 Amps to 200 milliAmps.

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