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The Classic Marque

They promise a lot, but fail to deliver.

Yep, that earlier picture is before I welded half washers to the exhaust flanges to improve exhaust clamping, not realising the flanges were concave.

I checked for any obstructions in the manifold, none there. Then just the straight tube to my single box, which I whacked the baffles throug. So I'd say not restrictive, but I wondered exactly that too Richard.

I have to ask.

If they annoy you, why watch 'em?

We all know in advance mosf are crap, that's why I don't watch them.

Looking back at your earlier pic of the gasket the inlet manifold is well bedded into the gasket - the exhaust not.
That is similar to mine when it blew - exhaust not clamped as well with the manifold thicknesses being different.

Is your exhaust at all restricted ? That could slightly improve power to an extent if it leaks I guess.

Vortex Random Flow Generator Guy?

Interesting though. If my boot smell is coming from my rubber neck, akin to your plastic petrol can, under the right conditions perhaps that's why I get a whiff too.

Thanks Dave.

I found the vizard stuff David. Yep you're right it is mentioned. A bit over my head but I get the idea of it.

Frankly though, I'm past worrying about a bit of hp or mpg. I'll settle for not being gassed as a decent swap.

What is interesting though reading that exhaust section, is the title I gave to this thread and my comment in the first post I made.
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Anam

I used to have some NOS Metro Turbo gaskets. I'll have a look, see if I've got any left. I may have ebayed them, though.

I think I also had some of those 'injection' gaskets.

I think I may have found the problem. The clues were there all along. Warmish weather. 50 mile trip out in the Frogeye.

Analysis: 50 mile journey in the frog with a VRFG * Spare fuel can stowed in the enclosed frog boot. Which gets quite warm on a sunny day. It seems that the plastic fuel can cap doesn't actually seal that well so the warmed petrol expands, vaporises and finds it's way o...

A couple of questions come to mind. Have you had someone follow you to observe the tailpipe on acceleration, deceleration and cruising? A lot of time acceleration right after deceleration will blow out a goodly puff of blue smoke if oil is being sucked in around the valve stems.

Was anything special done to the crankcase ventilation system? Stock air cleaner or aftermarket? If the val...

Sorry exhaust should have read

33x28mm