Detling Show 07

S7 in hall 2 at Detling


Roys Robin Hood 2B
Is this Martins next modification????????

Martins Pilgrim Sumo

An early start for me on Saturday, up at 6am (silly o clock lol) and on the road to Detling at 6.45 am to be there for 8am as my s7 was going on display on the indoor RHOCaR stand.

The run down was good with not much traffic on the M25.

Once I arrived, I was shown where the club stand was and the S7 was parked up in place.

Soon after Tim, Peter & Roy turned up to set up the rest of the stand and the show opened to the public.

There where plenty of questions asked about both of the cars which we answered the best we could.

Martin turned up around 11.30am with his Sumo and we set off to have a look round the rest of the show to see what goodies we could pick up.

With the show starting to wind down for the day it was time for us to think about heading home for the night, for Tim, Peter & Roy this meant a hotel for the night, but my S7 was going nowhere as it had to stay in the show hall over night. It was a strange feeling having to leave her sitting there! I was soon over it once we made it out on to the open road in Martins Sumo. (my, can it go some lol)

Today (Sunday) it was back down to Detling for day two of the show this time with Becky & Tasha. we set off at a more sensible time as I can't do silly o clock both days of the weekend.

We got to the show ground around about 11am and once passed the security guys (oh the power of a pink badge lol) we parked the tintop in the exhibitors car park.

Inside the hall we found the lads set up for business so we set off in search of breakfast.

The rest of the day was spent answering more question on the cars and generally watching the public reaction to the cars. I found a few more bits & bobs to buy and Tasha had fun on the fair ground rides that were at the show. We spent the afternoon chatting with Tim till it was time to call it a day, so with that we packed up the stand and pushed the cars out of the hall and made our way home after a great weekend.

Small Air Filter to BIG Air Filter

A post on Martins Pilgrim Sumo

Look that the size of that thing!!!!!!!!!!!!

The new filter in place

Looks cool

The old K&N filter

Yesterday at the Wheels day Martin found himself a new air filter for his Pilgrim Sumo when we were looking around the trade stands.

So today we had to try and fit this monster of an air filter, the thing is the size of a dinner plate!!

With the old K&N filter removed from the carb we could see that we would have to use the base plate from the K&N filter to get it fit to the Weber carb. A couple of holes had to be drilled into the base plate of the new filter to pick up on the mounting lugs of the K&N base plate, once this was sorted out the next job was to get the height of the filter right so that the bonnet would shut, at first the filter was way too tall to allow this, so it was out with the die grinder and a good 1/4 of an inch was cut off from around the lip of the new base plate inlet hole.

With the two base plates fitting together nicely a flat piece of metal plate was used between the two mounting lugs to support the filter lid, once it had been drilled and fitted, the stud that holds the whole thing together on the new filter was cut to the right size and a M6 thread cut onto the bottom part of it and then bolted to the support plate.

Now to see if the filter would fit?????? The modified base plate was mounted to the carb followed by the filter element and then the chrome lid and locking nut it was the moment of truth.

With fingers crossed the bonnet was gently closed and then locked home all had worked out well,

a job well done.

Other Cars at Wheels day 07

33rd Wheel Day Good Friday 07

Today we went to the Surrey Street Rodders Wheels Day at Rushmoor arena near Aldershot Hants.

The TVH area met at the Ely pub on the A30 at 9.15 am, seven Hoods, one Locost, one Jester and one Sumo.

With me as lead car we set off on our way to the event, now was it luck or just good timing the convoy all stayed in line and together all the way from the pub to rushmoor where we had to arrive as a group to park up and display together. Once again Martin took on the role of tail gunner in the convey in his sumo just in case the snake of cars got split up (may let you up the shape end one day mate lol)

When we got to the main gate of the arena I was told by one of the marshalls to hold our train of cars up for a bit while he let the PT Cruisers in from the opposite direction. Me thinking ok there may be 4 or 5 of them, turns out there were 22 of the things!!!!!

Once we were in and parked up as a group and we set about having a look around the show, meeting back at our cars at 1pm for a spot of lunch. Well what a turn out for a one day show, you name it, it was there - Hot Rods, Street Rods, Classic cars, kitcars and bikes to name but a few. Loads of trade stalls selling all sorts of things.

Towards the end of the day the TVH crew was invaded by a nice looking Morris Minor with matching trailer

The weather was spot on too with a great sunny day, lets hope the rest of the TVH events for this year are like this.