03-04-2018, 07:57 PM
Good evening everyone. I don’t normally post but I have found this thread quite interesting.
I totally agree with Ruairidh commits and his reasons on why he has changed his cars set ups. As a long-time friend, I have known Ruairidh to use his cars for long distance both when he was at university and now with his family. He sets up his cars to enable to him to tackle his long distance driving without stressing the car and making it reliable.
I use my cars in a slightly different way, and I am not saying that this will suit another but it does what I want them to do and each of my cars are set up very differently.
I tend to do long distance over a very short timescale. Covering 1400miles in 33hrs took a lot of planning and designing the cars setup that will with stand this. 2/3rds of the trip was mainly flat driving but the other 1/3rd was up alpine passes. The basic set up was 5.67 crown wheel and pinion with a close ratio 3 speed box, this was driven using a Ruby cylinder head, large valves, followers, a trials cam the rest is sort of pretty standardish and a SU down draught carburettor.
The important is knowing and understanding how all those different parts effect each other. My object wasn’t to go as fast as I could make the car go (or i would of left it as it was) but it was to accelerate hard and fast in low gears but maintain a maximum of 75mph for hours after hours.
Maybe what I am trying to say is "what do you want to use your car for?" Then understand each component and how to use them to achieve your goal.
If it’s touring with a full car and trailer with your family or if it’s track racing or maybe it’s just to be able to use your car to keep up with modern traffic. Remember one thing the brakes.
That poem is fantastic Chris and it sums it up nicely in my mind.
Andrew G
I totally agree with Ruairidh commits and his reasons on why he has changed his cars set ups. As a long-time friend, I have known Ruairidh to use his cars for long distance both when he was at university and now with his family. He sets up his cars to enable to him to tackle his long distance driving without stressing the car and making it reliable.
I use my cars in a slightly different way, and I am not saying that this will suit another but it does what I want them to do and each of my cars are set up very differently.
I tend to do long distance over a very short timescale. Covering 1400miles in 33hrs took a lot of planning and designing the cars setup that will with stand this. 2/3rds of the trip was mainly flat driving but the other 1/3rd was up alpine passes. The basic set up was 5.67 crown wheel and pinion with a close ratio 3 speed box, this was driven using a Ruby cylinder head, large valves, followers, a trials cam the rest is sort of pretty standardish and a SU down draught carburettor.
The important is knowing and understanding how all those different parts effect each other. My object wasn’t to go as fast as I could make the car go (or i would of left it as it was) but it was to accelerate hard and fast in low gears but maintain a maximum of 75mph for hours after hours.
Maybe what I am trying to say is "what do you want to use your car for?" Then understand each component and how to use them to achieve your goal.
If it’s touring with a full car and trailer with your family or if it’s track racing or maybe it’s just to be able to use your car to keep up with modern traffic. Remember one thing the brakes.
That poem is fantastic Chris and it sums it up nicely in my mind.
Andrew G