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I wonder if he already has the waterskis?

Hi there I’m new to this site and 7s can anyone help me locate surround + screen for nippy or any info. Rob 07890 191498

Hi there I’m new to this site and 7s can anyone help me locate surround + screen for nippy or any info. Rob 07890 191498

Hello, iv'e fitted indicators to my wife's Austin 7 box saloon they are powered directly from the battery (6 volt) and they work perfectly until I start the engine then they flash intermittently or stay on continually. Has anyone had this happen and has anyone got any ideas what is the problem.

Hi folks
Does anyone know whether the block for a 3 bearing Ruby is the same a 2 bearing ?
Or any other block?
Regards
           Tim

Adam entered the former John Yeeles Hogstow Special in harewood Hillclimb this weekend, 6 excellent runs & the car didn't miss a beat.

I'm restoring an extremely well used Jan 1934 RP saloon - not deluxe. 
As part of its well used history, the front seat mounts, cross member, hinges etc have gone, and the back seat cross members squashed flat.  The seats were sitting loose on blocks of wood.  Such is the life of an old car in New Zealand.
I've worked out how the back cross members should go, but I am in the dark as to the detail of the seat mountings.  I believe that the seats should be adjustable (they certainly were when I bought it) but all I have are a line of holes on each side of the seat frame.

Would anyone have details or perhaps photos that could help me please.  I would prefer photos of the driver's side as that would also show a little of how the battery wires go through the floor.

Any assistance would be gratefully received.

Please bear with me as I am not familiar with what does and doesn't work on Austin Seven side valve engine valves and seats for better reliability and incremental improvement in breathing and running.

I am not modifying the block in any way apart from cleaning up ports and fitting new guides, springs and valves.

I have cut new 45 degree seats and am going to cut 30 and 60 degree clearance angles to produce  a valve seat width of about .050" to .060" (also suggested by others).
In the book by David Vizard  "Tuning BL's A Series Engine" he suggests cleaning up valves and seats  as per these drawings as shown in his book:
   

I'm wondering if these suggestions (particularly the valves) would provide any benefit to my A7 block given as it isn't an A series head?  Or am I misguided in my thinking that this will improve flow and breathing - even if it is minimal ?

What are your thoughts ?

Cheers,
Stephen

had the chance today to take the car out for a run.

The Hinckley car show.

First chance ive had to do this event.

It's there 8th year, and this is one of the more modern types of cars shows I like.

You don't get stuck in the middle of a field, and charged for the pleasure. Or boredom depending on your view of car shows.

This event is set in the middle of Hinckley town centre. In LEICESTERSHIRE. Free entry, first come first served. Free to public.

If you are keen to show your car, you get there early in the morning. And get a prime spot.

If you are more like me, you have a lay inn. And get put a bit more on the out skirts. Mind you it made it easier to get at mid-day to watch the F1.

Here's that guy from Holland again and being the square peg in the round  hole that I am, here's another question.
My Rosengart will be delivered within a few days 
We renegotiated the deal when after three visits it was still hardly possible to testdrive it properly due to electrical glitches and a dying ignition. Eventually  it ran well in second and reverse (..sic..) but wouldn't really pull in first and third (me thinking it was an ignition issue). Steering and breaking were 'encouraging' (and a lot better than the Morris 8 two seater I drove last month)  notwithstanding bit of a bumpy 'n' shaky ride.
We managed to limp back to the verdor''s garage, complained, his mechanic came to show me how to drive properly (....) but by then no spark could be tempted to jump from the plugs any more (probably the coil was fried by jump-starting attempts two days earlier with a 12 volt starter battery......so we started twisting the vendor's arm as by then we were under the impression that more harm than good woud be done to the car by further attempts by the vendor and his team of mechanics ... So we bought it 'as is' and leave the cosmetic respray.. some people even say that being  brush-painted it has it's charms as well...

Anyway... the tyres - spare included - need replacing.. two old Firestones on the front, two Yokohama (...sic...) motorcycle tires on the rear axle and a crumbling spare  the rear deck... 

Now not being hindered by any knowledge or scruples I'm slitghly biased toward radial tyres (because of their presumed / assumed directional stability)  but non of my pre-war driving friends could tell me from their own experience (!!!) the. pro's and con's of either cross-ply or radials... They all just stuck to cross-plies (in some cases these extortionally Michelins...) and even not having driven  any of their prewar cars on radials they dismissed that idea at first. hand.

Now I'm considering Avon SM tyres  in 4.00x19 (as that's the size my rosengart should run on); they are radials according to Longstone (France) but I do not like buying in France as French suppliers take ages to ship and  they always use Collisimo.....expensive and still slow in delivery, track&trace stops working at Gare du Nord.....terrible .

Alternative might be the AvonAM7 Safety Mileage MKII's in 4.00x19  as they are available from another supplier at a better price, free shipping and delivery usually within 5 days....

Other alternatives: the Excelsior Comp and the Longstone, the tread pattern of the latter please me more plus the 'pedigree' of that tread pattern even though mine wil be no racing car.

So how. about your esteemed and much appreciated. opinion on this issue? I'm a newby in pre-war cars, so willing to learn..


BTW. I'm attaching a pic of the car... hope it'll appear.

 
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