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Oooohhh it looks lovely!

Your workshop is really looking good. Have you got a decent heater in there so to make it more inviting for winter evenings of old car tinkering

So jealous at the condition of your imps floor. Very lucky indeed as its saved you a lot of work!

Ahhhhh - I'd spotted that on the bay of E. Is it pretty solid?

Imp001 :( :oops: :idea: I was looking for a poorly looking smilie but that's all I could find. This is actually the first time I have had to call out a trailer in NZ to get rescued in a classic. The last time I called the AA was for our Nissan Sentra, which funny enough (though not at the time..) ha...

Cheers Andy. Yeah I'm looking forward to having full scale fuel infection. All those little components that could let their smoke out at any time.. Makes for a grand adventure

So Hannah and I took the Imp for a two day road trip. Part business and part holiday. On Friday we drove up to Lake Rotoiti, Nelson lakes national park. On the way we checked out some old classic cars a fella owns who wants me to do a load of bodywork on. The Imp drove really well. The sun was out a...

Sweet- cheers. Yeah I have even more room under the shelf further forwards so I'll move it there

Thanks fellas for the kind words. I'm thinking of hiding the coil upside down under the parcel shelf, as I have with the single coil currently used. Hopefully that'll be fondue away enough. I'm looking forward to seeing the dizzy removed for an even cleaner looking engine. Looks like I've just score...

Well its been a while since I've updated this thread. Mid July was where I last posted up anything of worth. Little Imp got parked up in the corner of the workshop so leaving anough space for our neighbours to make use of the shed while we took off to England for a decent holiday. Hannah got to catc...

It looks like a toy car in those last two pictures! It's the background I think. A toy car that's showing some of the die-cast metal.

Plus 1 for blowing air in. So long as you draw that air through a filter.

Repeating what I've said earlier - you are a so lucky with the solid condition of your imp. That underside looks great and even the front wishbones look in to be in excellent condition. If you want to have the cars underside prepped to a suitable level where you can just use it then is be tempted to...

Help needed- I am trying to locate Hannah's old Imp- not to purchase but out of curiosity. Hannah bought it in 2002 for 400 quid. We knew nothing about them at all. I didn't even know what it was when Hannah first spotted it sitting in the yard at a blokes place my mate was buying a van from. We pic...

Good job Richard. I love hearing about great deeds like this between folk especially in this day and age. Heart warming

Alex.

Cheers for update.

That bitumen sheet is what is like to add to a couple of places to absorb buzz. Apart from an exhaust boom at 4000rpm most noise I note at 60mph is wind noise. Not much I can do about that.

So many awesome ideas. The power of a good forum

I could add an adjustable counterweight that can be changed from the dash. Adjust it to suit the speed zoning one is driving in the most.

Cheers. We built slideouts on our housetruck. They make a huge difference to the feeling of space so it made sense to add one on this. I don't know why other tiny house builders don't do them. It's worth the extra effort and bit of weight.

A transaxle output shaft seal leaking, in my experience, results in the oil running down the casing and dripping off the bottom of the box with the doughnut staying dry. You say you have sealed the spider to the spline but again in my experience that's where the transmission oil comes from if it di...

Mine are the very late mk3 type. Certainly no welding obvious but what I thought was a very tight machine press fit.

Wow.

. So the pressed together ones can come apart?! I this common?

I'll certainly check that again but i had cleaned the spider end thoroughly with brake cleaner and a tooth brush, let it dry in the sun. There is a slight cavity where the end of the axle doesn't quite sit flush with the outside face of the spider and this I filled with automotive silicone then let ...

Both mine are used a lot , Singers tidy but hardly perfect , Vuskys an unpolished scanky workhorse - just the way i love it :D My Imp has been named leaky because one output seal still insists on weeping and a little bit goes a long way once it spins off the doughnut! Plus, as I was warned, Imps do...

617sqn wrote: To eat your dinner, you serve it up on a plate

Andy G

What is a plate? We just use our hands down this way. Meat off bbq, onto bun/bread, into mouth.

That is a heck of a lot of money for what really is just a mini with go faster stripes (showing my full blown knowledge of Minis right there....) What irks me is that these cars, which were designed to be taken by the scruff of their neck and trashed with joyous abandon on fun twisty roads, have now...

I think its a bit excessive, claiming its because there is only 4 of them in OZ. but hey- someone may well buy it and that can only be good for all other Imp owners because it bumps the value up? Certainly its worked that way for old Mazda Rotaries in NZ and Oz. The prices folk are paying now days, ...

There's a chamois being offered for sale right now in OZ on a FB group. Its a project. Asking $14k aud !!!!

I'll ask frank.

Ahhhh yes - the car that Niall built. I knew him from a really fun UK based Rotary forum I belonged to, sadly like many good forums that one is now dead :-( He had the build up on there. Great wee car. THIRSTY!!! :D There are adaptor plates available out of the States to bolt Mazda Rotaries onto VW ...

I'd love to know how he joined the Rotary to the Imp box. The Mazdas have quite large diameter flywheels. Do you know if the car still exists? I've owned heaps of Rotaries over the last 17 years and I still really like them, however they are quite chunky in weight.. a bit too much for the rear of an...

Yeah the mk1 shafts that were on this car when the previous owner was running a supercharger on the Datsun had a distinctly twisted look

A 12a is roughly about 110lbft torque at 4000 so not an absurdly huge amount. However isn't autocross quite harsh on drivelines?

Those seats look fantastic!!!!

Yeah I figure that is where the market is.. Folk who run such low cars that they need the extra driveshaft angle. Or those running huge power but then I figure the gearbox wouldn't last anyway? How much power can an imp box take if driven sensibly - not clutch dumped etc?

Yeah I'm not one for abusing drivelines and dumping clutches. However I'd still always want something with a bit of give in the drivetrain, like Andy said if only to remove noise.

Ahhhh yes- I remember commenting about some driveshafts on a post a few days ago about the new driveshafts on Bryan Fletchers Tikimobile. They'll be the ones you talk of. They look good... https://i.postimg.cc/bYGbRk0b/35043483-10156022799001693-1440132843933007872-n.jpg The thing I had commented on...

Cool. Cheers. It's only that one side that has leaked and coindently it also happens to be the side that has slightly thinner spacers by a couple of mm. I had just machined the spacer width to suit the gap. Later on I started noting that whenever I saw a photo of a standard imp setup the rotoflex co...

Baz- I have dropped them to 20 at the front. Heaps better. Might go lower and see if its even nicer. Turn in is still good but certainly slightly heavier steering. However much quieter on the road! Well now.. its been a few weeks and time for an update. So far the Imp has been reliable and not let u...

Moved my Imp Super to my new place, plus 2 engines. One tyre had gone a bit flat (<10 psi) but other than that, smooth sailing. Having said that, a lot more work than last time I moved nearly 12 years ago and I've still got a lot to do before I'm finished. Photos of new place, sunshine included ple...

I'll try that out and report back

I am more concerned with a potential lack of grip in the front and am very weary of it ploughing straight on in a slippery corner. What tyre sizes and pressures are you running front and rear? This has 175/60 tyres on it. Certainly not a flash brand but they seem nice and soft. I was not sure on wh...

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