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A few piccies of the car The paddock at Gurston, early saturday morning minis everywhere. The two red ones and the orange one were in my class, the red one under the gazebo is Neil Turners class winner and class record holder. The other two are actually sports libre cars, the silver one has a firebl...

End of Season Update. Gurston Down - August The August Bank Holiday saw me heading down to Gurston Down, near Salisbury, early on the Saturday morning. I used to travel on the Friday afternoon, but have got fed up with the traffic, so now set off at 5:00 on Saturday and travel down in half the time,...

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Mon Oct 21, 2019 8:56 pm
Nice write up Eric. Did i send you the pictures of you at Barbon?

Moose, I can't recall any, post them up here if you want.

Eric

Well I tried to provide updates more regularly, and failed completely. Must try harder, anyway this is what I was up to in the summer. Doune - June Another long trip up north to Doune which is near Stirling in Scotland. One of my favourite hills. Car ran perfectly all weekend, but unfortunately I wa...

The big thing with engine swaps in Hillclimbing and sprinting is it automatically moves you into Sports Libre class, and you won't win without huge power & huge downforce. I don't like engine swaps, an Imp should have an Imp engine, I won't even use a 930 block in a competition car because its not a...

Update time – new problems to contend with. Prescott 27/28 April 2019 The weather was dry but cold at times and this was the first event at the track for the year, the tarmac didn’t seem too grippy. I had trouble in practice, getting my start times down to what I normally do, and not many records we...

Also it is interesting to see the 64 foot times, it shows what difference track preparation plays in drag racing I suppose. John, I am really pleased with the consistency i'm getting with the 0-64 foot times. Of the three runs I managed a 2.13, 2.10 and my best was 2.04 secs. A few meetings ago, at...

Not had the selector shaft problem but did do the zip on my race suits at the Top Gear Show at Silverstone many years ago. Luckily at that time I got my race suits from Jaybrand at Peterborough and it was just a trip on Monday to get a new one fitted. I don't expect any of the suppliers provide tha...

A great read Eric. In 42 years of playing with every Imp transaxle going, I have never found a main selector shaft with the end snapped off. Congrats on the effort. Dave W. PS. It's still your round next... 8) Dave, superb I've done something new :lol: I guess you don't do an uprated one ???, I wil...

Turboimp wrote: When is the next Prescott?

This weekend 27/28th April.

New Season - New problem I'm doing the same championship again this year - The British Hillclimb Leaders and in the same class. I haven't really done much to the car over the winter, A bit of fiberglass repair to the rear quarter, a legacy from Barbon last year, and a lot of filler in the lip of the...

I'm competing on the Monday at the Palace in the Imp, (also at Gurston Down on the Saturday and Sunday), so i'll be there one of the days but a bit busy to organise a stand.

Eric

Peter I am in the process of sorting out electric windows on my Irish Clan using the cable driven sliding system off a rover 75. I have managed to modify one to fit on the passenger side and got it to slide up and down nicely unpowered, and got it to work powered on the bench. I will be fitting them...

End of season update, sorry for the lateness, must try harder. :oops: :oops: Well the season finished a lot better than it started. Curborough – RSSOC Sprint (Scimitar Club). This was a similar event to last year, not in my main championship but one I enjoy. Run on the Figure of 8 course this is a C...

My season has now started ( a bit late :oops: :oops: ) A fortnight after Doune I had a two events over a weekend, one at Barbon Manor (in Cumbria) on the Saturday and then over the hills to Harewood near Leeds on the Sunday. I competed at Barbon, for the first time, a couple of years ago, and it rai...

Again sorry for the lack of updates, as you will see I’ve been busy. I did type this out once, then lost it when something went wrong with the preview. After building up the new ‘old’ engine for the car, I went to my next event which was at Harewood, 2 weeks after letting the steam out of the origin...

Thanks for the tip on posting Photo's Lotus-e-Clan, I think I have sorted it. The engine was my first ever Imp engine, did about 50,000 miles as an 875, probably the same again as a 998. It was originally converted to 998 by John Lockwood at Suisse Auto, after a stromberg throttle plate screw came l...

New Season 2018 As the car was running fine when the season finished last year, I haven’t really done much to it over the winter. I’ve fitted a camera, just a cheap 4k Go-Pro Chinese copy. I have also added 2 pressure sensors on the brake lines, one for the front and one for the rear circuit. I felt...

End Of Season round up time. I have completed three more events to finish my season off. Doune What can I say – what a hill, fast, scary, fun about covers it. My first trek to this Scottish venue, about 10 miles to the west of Stirling. I arrived after a 6.5 hr drive on the Friday, set up my tent an...

Interesting discussion on the cooling. I looked at ice and all the other things and decided it was too much faf. Theses things are great until you have to wait on the line for 20 mins after a big off, have to have an imediate re-run etc. So unless it happens automatically then I won't bother with it...

A couple of more events have gone by, it should of been 3 but some idiot forgot (until too late) to put his entry into the August Bank Holiday event at Gurston Down. I didn't get an entry, wich was really anooying because I could have got maximum championship points if I had driven well, as there we...

Thanks for the comments guys, I'm over the moon how the car is going. Anyway, i've been pointed at a couple of video's on youtube featuring the car at Prescott at the start of the year. The second one shows the whole C1 class including Andy Russell in his 1140cc Ginetta G15. https://youtu.be/pW9_Dz1...

Update Time again. After my fun time at Gurston that Steve kindly talked about above I have done a few more events. The car has run faultlessly, with time between events spent doing little improvements instead of repairs. In June I competed at Loton Park, a lovely twisty hill near Shrewsbury. Saturd...

Steve
Saturday Practice starts at 08:30 and will probably be over by 3:00 as they are also running a local event after.
Andy is entered and one of the 5 of us in the class, Imp, G15, Citroen AX, and 2 minis.

Come and say hello.

Eric

Update Time I have done 2 events in the last three weeks, one at Prescott and one at Harewood. Prescott A brilliant start to the season with great weather and a great atmosphere. I would like to say I had a trouble free weekend but I had a couple of disasters on my 3rd practice run. At the start, a ...

Eric Good luck, if your doing the rounds at Doune and need a pit crew give me a shout and I'll come along to give you a hand. Scott Scott, hopefully I'll be up at Doune in September. There is a round on 17/18 June at Doune but i'll be drunk in a tent at LeMans that weekend. For Info, these are the ...

On the rear arms youve made do you use the original bearing housing removed from a standard arm and weld back on to yours, or have you made up new ones and machined them after fabrication? I didn't make the front or rear wisbones myself. They were supplied to me quite a few years ago by Pete Richar...

The start of my season approaches, with my first event of the year being at Prescott this coming weekend This year I am competing in the British Hillclimb Leaders Championship, basically going to all the top hills in the country. I'll be in the same class as other championships I have been in, namel...

End of season Roundup I have done 2 more events in the car, Gurston Down near Salisbury at the end of August and Shelsley Walsh this Saturday. For both events the car ran faultlessly, I didn't have to open the toolbox during the events and between them. I had a superb weekend at Gurston, the event w...

Kieth
It runs tunerstudio fine, the full version exactly as on your laptop. The text is a bit small and hard to hit exactly with big fingers. I would invest in a cheap pointer pen, the ones with a plastic disc on the end, to make it easier. A cheap plug in keyboard also helps.

Update Time I've done another 4 events since Crystal Palace. A busy weekend with a Hillclimb at Barbon Manor in Cumbria and a sprint the day after at Curborough nr Lichfield in early July were the first two. Unfortunately it was a very wet weekend, but the car behaved perfectly at Barbon but a few ...

I took some video of one of your later runs. Do you want me to email it to you or shall I post a link to it here? PM me your email address, if that is your preference. IM 8) Paul's Video - cheers mate http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd62/eric_morrey/Pimp2/Pimp%202%20-%20first%20drive/Resized/th_...

Eric, which events are you doing this year/championship do you compete in? I'm attending a few events this year with my boss who runs a Pilbeam in the British and the Midlands Hillclimb Championships, would be good to see the imp in action should you be at any of them! Regards Frank Frank I'm going...

Paul
Feel free to post the link on here

Eric

Had a great day at Crystal Palace. As usual a brilliantly run day by the 7 Oaks club. I didn't get to see much of the rest of the show outside of the Sprint as it was a quite a busy day. The car created a lot of interest, especially by people asking me what bike engine is in it. They seemed amazed t...

Front end finished - or is it ?? Picked up the front end bits from the painter during the week and I fitted them this afternoon. I'm really happy with the light grills and surrounds, but I asked for the radiator grill surround to be black and the radiator grill to be green, but he did them the other...

Evening A bit more work finishing off non essential bits and trying get round a few problems. Charging has been a bit of a problem. I'm running a little lithium polymer battery, approx 7AH and weighs under a kilo. It feels like an empty box :shock: . Anyway the Pimp2 uses a lot of electricity, Elect...

Hi Mike
It was good to meet you at the weekend, it was great to see another Imp competing. Don't worry about the plugs, they were new but you have tested them out for me, so I now know they are a good set.

I am looking at going to Barbon, but the June meeting.

Cheers

Eric

Such a lot of fuss over a couple of hours work! :lol: Seriously a really useful resource and sterling work . How many man hours? If it hurts don't tell us! I' not sure on hours but I've been working on it for over 4 years. I'm not good at farming stuff out so I've basically done everything myself a...

Where's the Scimitar ! :shock: Congratulations on the records Eric - and an Imp (albeit Rawlson) beating a G15 is nearly as good as Clan beating one! :lol: Will the Clan never turn a wheel again? ..Is the Imp lighter than the Clan? Do you think the Clan is inherently slower than the Rawlson? Peter ...

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