HURRAH!!!!



another horror saved..

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Yeah come on everyone you're trying to make things more difficult than they are. You will probably have to modify the bottom arm mount anyway to leave enough room for the movement of the driveshaft especially on the drivers side. As someone said early going past this is just opening a massive can o worms.

Pic of lower arm mount:

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225hp atw on 14psi. 1/4 Mile no idea. Take one 1971 Mini Clubman, one Starlet GT Halfcut, Simmer over a warm MIG Welder, and Voila Minstar! www.mpdesign.id.au

Have a look at a Triumph Dolomite. From memory it may be the sort of thing you are looking for, but memory is 20 years older since I lsat looked at one. Mongrel of a motor car.

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Chris

Everything I like is either
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Chris

Dolomite is a great car, the sprint was the first production 16 valve single cam and was leylands last competitive product both here and in Europe, I only call it names when I have to work on it

Jon

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I owned one and worked for a dealer when they were new (I even wrote off a demo). It was a bastardised FWD into RWD from the 1300 and a total failure. But everyone has their favorite old car and a 6 cylinder 2500 is most probably mine and a lot of people would call that lunacy as well.

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Chris

Everything I like is either
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For a total failure the sales figures are sure impressive(sold untill 1980 in the UK) and the fact that they won the BTCC against the best BMW, Alfa,Fords and everything else, and was run by a private team against factory teams and the same here for the AMSCAR under 3ltr championship. I to worked for a dealer here and still have a sprint, also had mk1 2.5pi and 2500S all good cars but your statement that a dolomite is only a bastardised 1300 is like just like calling a dunnydore an opel or , only the very early 1300 and Toledo were FWD all cars since then were RWD even the 1300,1500,1850 and sprint

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I can only comment on Australian success and that they were a total failure here, as was the Stag and the PI. Lots of sales for the PI, but a real hard thing to maintain. They sure rocked until the metering unit gave up the ghost due to wear and tear. I had one that did obscene top speeds with a TR5 cam, head extractors, 060 pistons etc. I am aware that Dolomites were relatively successful in the UK with leyland ST and Tony Pond doing the driving but like everthing else Leyland in those days they weren't well made and the company failed. If the cars like the Dolomite, SD1 etc had been good cars then Leyland would still be with us. The stock Dolomite distributor was so difficult thing to adjust the points in that it was easier to pull it out to do the job. In frustration I fitted a luminition to overcome the problem. Comfortable cars to be in, sure that they were, reliable they weren't. I still stand by my statement about FWD/RWD. If I recall correctly the Dolomite was manufactured to compete against the BMW 2002. The fact that the Sprint had a single cam to drive 16 valves was not a big moment in engineering IMO. I apologise to the thread starter for taking this so far off topic.

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Chris

Everything I like is either
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The thread was never on topic. He called the thread macpherson strut and the first thing he says is he dosen't want "macpherson strut", he wants "double wishbone"
Well why didn't he call the thread "double wishbone"

As for the dolly winning the BTCC, the rules for the British tourers was biased towards smaller capacity cars. So the trick was to run a car that was unpopular so that you were the only car in your class and then you would get a class win at every meeting! You might finish every race in last position but your class points could give you the championship.
A Moskovich almost won the championship one year!
The next two years after the Dolly it was the Chrysler Avenger GT that won the championship. (the two years after that it was the Mini 1275GT)

Chris I am laughing my head off here because the dolomite has the same dizzy as a mini so do you have trouble with a mini changing or adjusting points

Now some of what is being said about the BTTC is correct but the bias didn't start untill 3 years after the Dolomites win, that is why the 1275GT was a sucess, it was one of the most unpopular mini's ever produced in the UK but because of thre being not much else for it to run against its class wins were assured almost and given that the developement work for the Cooper S was mostlt carried over it also proved a great weapon against the Capri's and the like in the wet it won twice, neither the Dolomite or the 1275 GT were run by Leyland on circuits it was left to companies like Broadspeed to run them as Leyland had ceased to be involved in motorsport well except for trying the TR8

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I like the hammer finish on your components Matt.

Dan

You are wrong, so who's laughing now. The standard Dolomite had an AC Delco distributor at the back of the motor up against the firewall. You obviously have never had to work on one.

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Chris

Everything I like is either
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Thanks Dan, yeah just that hammertone paint that someone suggested about a year ago (Stripey??).

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225hp atw on 14psi. 1/4 Mile no idea. Take one 1971 Mini Clubman, one Starlet GT Halfcut, Simmer over a warm MIG Welder, and Voila Minstar! www.mpdesign.id.au

Wasn't me. I'm a firm believer that if it's going to get dirty, i ain't going to paint it!

JAM - If i'm not mistaken.

How's progress Matt, dyno this Wednesday?

JC

Yeah that's it JAM. Where is JAM haven't seen a post from him in ages.

As for the car. Didn't get as much done as I wanted (hungover). But all the lights are in just got to connect them. The attach indicator binnacle and technically she's good to go. Actually going to get a Unrego Vehicle Permit and driver her to the dyno! Also just got a reply from my engineer he is coming around on Wednesday evening to do the final inspection so he can start his report and between us we have made a booking for next Monday to do the driving tests. If this all goes well then its off to get registered sometime next week (maybe even Monday after the testing).

Cheers

Matt

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225hp atw on 14psi. 1/4 Mile no idea. Take one 1971 Mini Clubman, one Starlet GT Halfcut, Simmer over a warm MIG Welder, and Voila Minstar! www.mpdesign.id.au

Chris

It was only the 1850 Dolomite that ran a strange dizzy with advance mech in the top all the rest ran normal type dizzy and as for position the 1850,TR7 and Sprint all have the dizzy in the same place (same block). It is a typical english engine bay, very busy and they use all the space
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Roundies and Clubbies(except vans) are both ugly that is why I have Midas and a van
1293 Mini Midas Bronze,1275 Clubman van