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Putin points: His support at home is getting very shaky. Yes of course its not a democracy so you might think the opinion of 'the proletariat ' doesnt matter but it does to those near the top, watching for their moment. So yes, Putin foes need to score some points back home.

An article from the Beeb on the topic:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c041n3ng03no

The comments are as much fun as the content.

Thanks Paul, I got that one from somewhere?. Which does indeed look like 50% of the advance. I have another graph supplied by a US tuner, which shows the primary doing more of the work, and the secondary spring engaging at around 60% after which the advance more or less, flattens out.
Decent acceleration to me doesn't mean tyre shredding, rather quick off the mark and steady, smooth, pr...

Calver designed the original gear-set so that the dots should align for us as per original a-series cam wheels. The dots provide a base-line for set-up.
Does this fault with positioning of the dots carry over to non adjustable cam wheels both simplex and duplex.


“As Jason has said it is the MSC kit.
And absolutelty, it should be simple to apply initially. Just th...

FWIW the Leyland GT V8 supplement I have shows the 41394 knee more like half-way along the curve at around 25 degrees and 2500 rpm.

'Decent' acceleration is in the a*se of the beholder (is there ever 'enough' acceleration?), mine was always smooth once I matched the needles to the K&N air filters and tubular manifolds.

I thought you could only rely on the dots for a standard factory cam, anything that has been reprofiled will have likely been done to best fit the new profile into the existing cam and so the dots can't be relied on except to get a base orientation. I've always used the DTI and crank degree wheel method, these days you can print a degree wheel and there are a number of online sources where you can...

Where is the error, in the camshaft or the timing gears?

I don’t know how far out the timing would be using standard gears and an original camshaft, compared with standard gears and a new replacement cam.

If using vernier adjustable gears, you would always time the cam with a DTI and protractor, or there’d be no point in using them, surely.

I thought that I would pass this on. It is a Fb ‘complaint’ from mini engine guru Keith Calver. Keith builds A-Series engine &c and used to write technical articles for a Mini magazine.

The picture highlights how far out the dots are when fitting cam gear & cams. It seems that it is no longer possible to rely on aligning the dots, as many have done over the years, but ‘beg, borrow o...

I'm currently amusing myself with Lucas 35DM8 distributors, on a 3.5 Vitesse engine, with SU carbs and Lucas CEI ignition. Particularly the mechanical advance element and thus the advance springs.
I built a machine for comparing spring strengths, and have done the maths to work out where on an advance curve, from 10* btdc, static, to 32* all in, various free lengths, of secondary spring engage...

Connections.

TB times 2, Alf Garnett, Gaza.

Tony Booth played opposite to Alf Garnett as Mike Rawlins, the Socialist scouse git. In life he was also a rabid socialist.

One of his daughters married 'socialist' Tony BLiar. Tony Booth wasn't happy with Tony BLiar's Iraq venture, amongst a lot of other stuff.

Another of his daughters, a former actress, now a journal...