Uxbridge 2011

Uxbridge show turned out be to a wet affair this year with heavy showers.

This still didn't stop the Thames Valley members from having a good day out.

Next up for the S7 is its MOT !!

Bob & Sylvia's BBQ

We have spent the weekend camping at Bob & Sylvia's of there Kit & Classic Car BBQ weekend.
A big thank you to Bob & Sylvia and their family for their hospitality and a fantastic time.

Becks at her post on the gate.

A4BBA had us all rocking well into the small hour

Hants & Berks Club Evening

Myself and six other members from the TVH Area took our cars along to the classic car evening run by the Hants & Berks Classic Car Club for a chat last Friday.
We were made very welcome with a lot of interest in our cars.
On show there was a few very nice cars ranging from a beautiful 1921 Vauxhall to a modern Audi R8.

Stoneleigh 2011

Last bank hoilday weekend we had a great time camping at the Stoneleigh kit car show.
Here are a couple of photo's of the S7 on the club stand late on the Monday afternoon.

Wheels Day 2011

Good Friday saw the Show season opener with the Surrey Street Rodders Wheels Day 2011
The hot weather made for a great turn out of cars of all types.


Just a few photos

Ford Escort MK ll

GT 500

General Lee




A couple of the bikes at were on show

Fab paint job

Up coming Kit & Classic Car BBQ Weekend

This event will take place on the weekend of the 3rd,

4th & 5th June 2011

Car Show,fun & games,evening BBQ & tribute band

take place on Saturday 4th June

Free camping all weekend

For details visit

http://kitclassiccarbbq.blogspot.com/

Headlamp woes

On the way back from the TVH Xmas lunch I noticed that the O/S front headlamp was very dim, the bulb was all ok so this meant there was an earth problem in the wiring loom.



Having taken off the nose cone grill and stainless steel side panel I found that the multi block on the Cortina loom was very corroded.
As the loom is so old now I just cut the multi block out of the loom and soldered in new joints and made up a good earth point on the body along with a new earth wire.




The loom now has Conduit Tube on it, this should keep any water out.

Headlamp, flasher lamp, side repeater & spot lamp all working again as they should.

Nice and bright :-)

TVH Xmas Lunch

Today we had the annual TVH RHOCaR Xmas lunch.
A good time was had by all, good food, great company. A big thank you to all the staff at the Fox & Hounds for looking after us all.
Also thanks must go out to my other half Becks for sorting out the bookings, food orders and the running of this event.

Merry Christmas to all.

New Weather Hood bag

I now have a new bag for the full weather hood. this allows the hood to be rolled up instead of being folded and stuffed in the boot.

The hood bag fits to the roll bar and sit on top of thr rear boot cover.
The bag is for a wide body seven so it has plenty of room to get the hood in & out of it.

S7 Lives Again :-)

Well the S7 lives again, cam cover refitted along with the fan and fan belts.
Timing reset to 8 degrease BTDC with a timing gun.

I have also I have changed the oil and oil filter .

Video taken on a mobile phone so the sound is not that good!

Cam Belt

As I said in the my last post I had the cam belt break on me when we were away the Cotswolds camping trip. This cam belt is only a year or so old and as you can see from the above photo it has failed in a big way. On closer inspection it looks like the belt has got contaminated by engine oil as there is hardly any wear on it.

The engine stripped of its timing gear

The auxiliary shaft cover removed from the engine block, note the damage to the oil seal.

It looks to me like something has at some point got in between the oil seal and Auxiliary pulley - maybe a stone of some other foreign body, even with a cam belt cover fitted to the engine.

The cam shaft oil seal also has a very slight oil weep so I'm going to renew this at the same time.

The new oil seal fitted to the cam shaft.

And a new oil seal to the auxiliary cover.

The auxiliary cover fitted back onto the block.

Timing pulleys refitted.

And a new cam belt, engine is now set back up on its timing marks.

I hope to have the job finished tomorrow and the engine running again.

Cotswold Camping 2010

Hoody Bear at the bar

We went away for a RHOCaR camping to the Cotswold's and what a great time we had too.

We stayed at the Norman Knight pub which was great, great food, it's own micro brewery and a very nice but small well kept camping field with access to the pub for showers and toilets.

Friday afternoon we went for the ProDrive factory tour, what can I say but what a brilliant place, various Aston's and Subaru's in different states of preparation or repair for racing and rallying, engines and boxes being either built, reconned or being put through their paces on test rigs. And on top of that loads of historic race and rally cars in the heritage centre that you can hop in and out of, including both Colin McRae and Richard Burns' Subaru's.

Saturday we had a Run out, I got as far as Moreton in Marsh when I had the cam belt on the S7 snap, but as I have a pinto fitted in the car no harm was done and the RAC patrol that came out to me had a new belt in the van, so with the patrolman's help (who turned out to be a total star) we replaced it at the side of the road , I did at one point have visions off me going home with the Hood on the back of a recovery truck. The rest of the RHOCaR guys & girls went on a very scenic trip round the Cotswolds, stopping for lunch in Bourton on the Water, and passed a well known Top Gear presenters house, then back to the pub by four thirty with me and the repaired S7 turning up about five minutes later.

Sunday morning we packed up our tents after breakfast as some of the group were off on another run out to a pub for lunch, the rest of us had booked in for lunch at the Norman Knight. afterwards we had a walk round the village before saying our goodbyes and making our way home.