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2CV? (Or a LS400 maybe?)

WTF can you buy for Carl money with massage seats?

I do hope he hasn't bought an LS400... this could get expensively funny.

I vote for this as smuggest post of the year so far.

"Pete M" wrote in message news:f2ihup$e7l$ snipped-for-privacy@registered.motzarella.org...

I know what he's bought :-) I've been in contact with him about buying the Rangie and he's let slip what he's bought. I'll leave it to him to tell you though :-)

Mike P

In news: snipped-for-privacy@mid.individual.net, Mike P wittered on forthwith;

That Rangie he's got is ok y'know. I think it's just the ignition module on the dizzy (Dizzy is a 35LM8 I think), solid as it needs to be, expensive suspension, body is a bit scruffy but it's a good ol' think. Could probably do with a cam and / or followers and definately needs a waterpump but it's not a shed by any means.

I think he's mental getting shut of it, if I didn't have the turbo one I'd be interested in it, put it that way.

Easy to fix, an hour would have it running really sweetly, I have a Rangie I can pinch bits off if you need anything for it. (I'm not stripping the engine though).

I also know where there's a nice 3.9 engine in a scrapyard..

35 DML8 if it's the same as the Vitesse, etc.

Ask for a Lucas DAB 118 as a replacement amp. It's meant to be a better design - and I've certainly found mine reliable to date. It looks near enough the same and fits straight on, but has a three pin plug (only two used) rather than the two of the original and they supply a plug with it. I made up a new loom from coil to distributor (only the two wires) and kept the old one with plug just in case. The colours are white and white/black, so some Maplin 2.5mm speaker wire does the job for pennies and looks the part.

In news: snipped-for-privacy@davenoise.co.uk, Dave Plowman (News) wittered on forthwith;

That'll be the one.

The Plowman, he speaketh sense.

I do like driving it, but compared the replacement, it is fun but slow. The replacement is smooth, fast, almost mint, and while no service history, condition shows it has been looked after, that and the fact that it was once a diplomatic car. And nobody wants the ambassador to break down and embarrass their country,

Did the Vittesse not have a different drive to the oil pump ?

I've got what I think is a Vitesse lump in my Bowler project and the

35DML8 to go in has a the usual "male" drive where the out going distributor has the "female" drive you would find in the oil pump, if that makes sense !

Bottom one is the distributor that came out, I hope it's just a simple matter of swapping the oil pump.

Is it that Japanese thing from Ebay that you posted on here a while back?

It all sounds a bit complicated, especially when you could get megajolt up and running (with 20th century coil packs, wasted spark and 3d mappable too) for under a ton. :)

I want to keep it as simple as possible, it's going to be used off road, under water, need mud ect, none of this mixes well with anything electronic.

Nope, not that one. A different one. I would have loved that Cedric. Old, but capable.

The bottom one is the Vitesse type - the gear on the distributor has a female drive (slot) fitting a tang on the oilpump. I *think* the design changed after the Vitesse went out of production. This site should help as they sell replacement distributors.

I know too! Well, I know the name, but I have no idea what it actually is :-) So I'm gonna google...

Gets the news......

That's quite funny and potentially stupidly expensive.

This should be amusing.

I didn't know what it was until I googled either :-)

mike P

Mike P

Or is that quite stupid and potentially funnily expensive :-)

Mike P

Thanks Dave, I went into the local V8 Disco owning scrappy. Him and his mate said, try that Rover Metro/114 piece of crap at the=20 back. I know the thing you mean.

He was right, one EM9 ignition module in spanking new condition, and a=20 cut off the loom for the connector.

As it happens, the original connector fits standard spades, so I crimped=20 on a couple of insulated spades and fitted it that way.

Still won't run which is a bitch, but I has had a hint to check the=20 dizzie cap which is next. I fitted a Halfords one a month ago, and=20 someone pointed me at that being a possible cause when they had similar=20 symptons with a month old Halfords one.

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