ollie,


Check ure e-mail. No pics as yet but will supply if deemed necessary.

All the best,

Alan S

Tried it and it worked a treat; the best cambelt job I've ever done. I'll write it up and send to ollie complete with pics, but using the extra gadget gives a 100% accurate setting. I won't write it up here as there's one part that for certain will make a lot of peoples hair stand on end, but it's p...

Ollie, The Gates problem I understand was applicable to the early belts and it was thought to be a profile problem. How far down the track this was rectified I couldn't say, but it was sorted a long time ago, I'd suspect possibly as they went into second generation. It was unusual as Gates basically...

For anyone who may be interested, I did a long winded write up on latest belts for the archives of another forum I'm involved with. Dayco according to my sources, was the choice of the manufacturer and have a very low failure rate. Gates by comparison, according to people within the industry was jus...

Peter Taylor perhaps? Well to cure oil starvation You need to use XU10 sump and XU9 spacer in order to make sump "bigger" and by doing this You also need to extend the oil pump pickup by 15mm, there are several ways to do this. It is also recommended to use XU10 oil pump as it has differe...

From what I've heard and read, the problem is more one of oil starvation caused by doing hard cornering (possibly with low oil level - they never admit to that bit though) and the oil ending up at one end whilst the pump is spinning away merrily and quite emptily at the other. There's a guy over her...

I'd forgotten where that write up I copied and pasted got put; thanks for finding it.

Luke, might be a good one to park somewhere on the forum here so when anybody gets down a bit, they can read it and cheer themselves up.


Alan S

From my understanding of it, when they were racing these at Bathurst, they devised a control from inside the car so the driver could adjust on the run if need be. The video I have been trying to lay hands on, apparently shows the late Peter Brock with an in car camera looking through the screen (of ...

Mike P wrote:Very interesting Alan but the photo links don't work

Mike P.

How weird is that??

Try this and see how you go.

http://208.109.104.50/forum/showpost.ph ... stcount=13


Alan S

For years I've been banging on about the BX16V that ran at Bathurst in the Production car series back in the early 90s and have turned heavan and Earth over looking for a few clues as to what they did. Following a long winded thread over here a while back, it turned out that a few of the old race ca...

Looking very nice - I want a workshop lik ethat one it looks to be kept very clean always agood sign. Cheers Luke Nah mate, just the opposite. They always reckon a workshop and a desk have something in common and they also reckon a tidy desk is a sign of a sick mind. Workshops have to look like the...

Luke, These injectors can "leak" internally also, which was what happened to the Mi16 and caused it to 'diesel' with the resulting explosion. We had already had a problem with one on the BX which also was running rough due to the injector leaking or to be more precise, sticking partially o...

If it's a leaky injector, be afraid......be very afraid!! Remember this was what blew the liner to kingdom come in an Mi16 we have here a while back when one decided to jam wide open.



Alan S

Speaking of our old mate Tom, this is what he does for sport:

http://www.frenchcarforum.co.uk/forum/v ... 3&start=15




Alan S

That was one of the cars that was "discovered" when there was a thread on the Australian Citroen Car Clubs forum a while back when someone went looking for a 16V without a sunroof. It seems there was a special batch put through using TZi bodies with 16V body kits just for this lot to race ...