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Leon Guyot 
26th June 2024
RH front wheel bearing adjusted
28th June 2024
Removed front Spring/Damper
Front Spring/Damper Unit now with 3/8th" Spring Top Plate Spacer
Fully installed Spring/Damper Unit with 3/8th Spring Top Plate Spacer.
I found a blown 15 Amp fuse in the fuse box, it was a blown glow fuse, but was not glowing to indicate that it had failed. I replaced it.
I noted that there is NO power at the 12 volt side of the MSD Coil.
Jim Dwyer 
DOT 4 Brake Fluid
Turkey basted the brake fluid out of the Audi and Honda reservoirs and replace it with new DOT 4 Brake Fluid.
Bled the Spitfire Clutch with new DOT 4 Brake Fluid.
There is some left over to do the Spitfire Clutch again.
Paul Stopp
I have been driving the car around for quite a bit and have been continueing to try and make improvements. I found out that my GPS speedo had an annoying speed limit alarm that when highway driving it activated. Took a lot of fiddling to get to silence it by taking it out of the normal speed range. The exhausts were still very loud and thought I should try and do something about it although limited space to work in.
The suggestion from one of my friends was an insert muffler that motorbike silencers often use. So I purchased a pair of these from Amazon that will pop inside the pipes just...
Hazen Wardle
After the I got the new clutch in the celebration was short lived. I was having issues with the alternator charging, as well as something suddenly was blowing the green circuit fuse the moment I turned the key (brakes, turn signals, temp and fuel gauges).
First off I needed to figure out why the alternator wasn't charging the battery. It's relatively new.
At first I doubted the generator to alternator conversion. It had an alternator with an external regulator on it when I bought it, but I didn't diagram the wiring very well and couldn't get it back the way it was. So I bought an...
Gregory A Campbell 
Received a nasty broken up and cracked front spoiler loose in the car when I bought it. Cleaned it up, repaired it and finally got around to installing it today.
greg sterling
Well, finally got back to noodling around on the project car a bit. Almost looks like a car now. I have driven it up and down the street a few times, everything seems to be in good order, but have not yet really pushed it. Best to just take baby steps with as much as has been changed. Using a plastic break room chair as a drivers seat, don't want to put in the reupholstered seats until after painting is complete. Hydraulic emergency brake working as hoped. Bolted VW Kombi brake slave cylinders to the rear hubs to activate the disc brakes independently of the main braking circuit.
Thaniel Smith
It has been about a year since my last post. Sadly it's probably been that long since I've done much to the car but not from lack of wanting to. This being a hobby it gets pushed to the back of the line of many things on my to do list. And since my last post we moved. Selling a house, buying another and moving are very time consuming. But the housing market being what it was and choices being limited we ended up buying a fixer upper. This has taken most of my free time and little time for hobbies. But things are getting more under control now and I even bought a part for the car project...
Boudewijn Stijne
Finished off the gearshift lever. Fitted a new anti rattle punger. The plunger didn't fit into the hole and had to be reamed out. For good order als fitted a new spring.
Painted the the gearlever cap and retainer for the good order. Not that anyone will ever see that.
To finish off the prop shaft in now also in place completing the drive train.
Tim Higgins 
After sorting through fit-up issues with the manifold to bonnet clearance and an iteration on rpm sensing, the engine fired up on the first attempt. Still have a bunch of tuning to do, but first I need to get it drivable. As a minimum I need to add brake fluid and finish the drivers seat.
https://youtube.com/shorts/L7LGkTxFH-w?feature=share
Graham J
Unfortunately, due to changes in circumstances, this project is for sale.
If interested, please make contact.
Graham
carl g
If you are a bit handy with digital electronics, here's a simple ish project so you can read data off of your GM 1227747 ECU. This is a popular ECU for engine swaps and there's one in Mancini.
You'll need an Arduino nano, a nano project board with power conditioning and a 2004 LCD. Simply connect 12V and ground, then the arduino serial RX to your ECU's ALDL data line.
The LCD will then show everything thats going on with the ECU. The screen is a bit busy but it's all there. Maybe in a later version I'll add a button to flip between screens but who knows. Ive found it useful for...
Chris B
The Lobby
Enjoy the blog this week with O Tannenbaum, Vince Guaraldi Trio
A favorite over the years, Charlie Brown Christmas. You don’t know until you grow up that the album was award winning in its day. You’re a kid mesmerized with cartoon characters. A dog dressing his house up with lights. This album is a stable on the backround music during the holiday.
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Its been a week. I wasn’t feeling great on Sunday, but finished up some house lights and stuff in the backyard, then sat down...
Eric O
I was able to get all four wheels aligned today. I used the string method to make sure I got both sides parallel before adjusting, that made a big difference. The Trackace works well, but the downside is it’s only measuring between the wheels, not with respect to the car. Using the strings parallel to the car gave me a good reference, then I made sure I made the same number of turns on both sides when adjusting.
I also removed the stock rear drag links and replaced them with adjustable (turnbuckle) rigid links I purchased some time ago on TriumphExp. They use rod ends between a...
Kevin Weller
I've finished the sill patch on my passenger side and while it's far from pretty it's really not bad. I think my next one is going to ten times better and take me way less time to do. The metal is not perfect of course and while I think it's close enough to just bondo over the imperfections I am going to try metal finishing it with a shrinking disk and hammer/dolly. I'm using Wray Schein's tools and techniques. I'm sure this will go badly at first like everything else but I want to see how close I can get things and minimize using filler but I'm sure I'll still need some. I sanded the...
Wayne Tate
If you are going to install a Smith Clock, a couple of things you need to know.
It's not a 2 1/8 inch hole and the gauge surround is a little larger than the normal ones.
I just cut a 2 inch hole in my already finished dash at the top center of the right dash panel, there is a 2 and 1/4 inch hole there, so someone planned ahead on that one. It did tear a little at the very edge, but routing a countersink took care of my heart attack.
The new hole required a bit of filing to get the gauge in but then noticed the overhang of the gauge was going to take more than the 1/8 inch cut out. The...
David P
I just can't get motivated to work on The Beast. I'm paralyzed with... something. It's not indecision; I know what has to be done. I think it's _fear_ that I'll (again) screw something up. Seems like the car doesn't get any better for my having worked on it...
Brian S
Now, before we begin, there will be no definitive performance upgrades advice here, if for no other reason than the simple fact there is little "book-larning" and mostly common sense thoughts to be had.
Also, if bling is yer thing, then polish it up and bolt it on with impunity. If simple uprates from stock are your thing, especially on the cheap, there might be some things to think about here.
From a non-blingy point of view where the goal is to get the stock engine to give more to you, then, let's look at a few things. Remember, all of this is in the context of getting the most from a...
Stuart Siegler
Cool day
Willy Grueber
Today the Spits has been sold and will be going to a new home! It was a lot of fun putting it back together and finally having it run right was a real exciting feeling.
In the end it was just not the right car for me so I'm sure the new owners will have all the fun they can handle in this classic car. To "the Bear"!
Gregg Pederson
Ran 2 autocross events at the Santa Maria Airport. 1 week later notice low oil pressure!. Here's a video of my 2-best runs.
This motor came out of a 1987 Toyota Corolla GTS. In that car the engine was leaned over towards the driver's side. I my car it is upright. This creates 2 problems; the oil level on the dipstick was indicating more than what was actually there, second in the head, the only oil drain back to the sump is on the driver's side. Both of these issues created a low oil level in the sump and loss of pressure during...
Anthony Kurilla
New hood installed by a local upholstery shop looks fantastic. Wiggles lost power again and looks be the sediment in the fuel tank. Finally pulled the tank and cleaned it out real well by filtering the fuel repeatedly and swishing it around in the tank. Painted the tank and ordered some new parts for the gasket around the fuel filler neck and a new neck. Once I get those parts back in I can get some new snaps on the tonneau cover and maybe pull the carb to check the float level per my colortune guide for mixture adjustment.
Jamie Richardson
Just a few mods and parts getting cleaned up.
Steve McCarthy
Road Trippin’
with Steve McCarthy
What’s two hours worth? Lot’s of answers to that. Time with a newborn? Priceless. At the higher minimum wage that people are screaming for? About $30. Before taxes. On a Road Trip? It’s the difference between a mind stultifying endless slog up the I-5 and the FAR more pleasant cruise up the 101. Two whole freakin’ hours longer. That’s it. It’s the difference between eating McKing Jr. and a Bison Burger in Atascadero. It’s the difference between a Denny’s pancake and waffles at the Worker Bee in Carpinteria. It’s the difference between...
Eric dit Meo
Some other pic of the work made on the rear....
Greg Deyo
I have always wanted to go to a Minnesota Triumph Sports Car Club meeting, but it meets at Fort Snelling's Officer's Club, and when I was unemployed last summer I couldn't afford the drive. Now I work five miles away and decided to go. They meet the second Thursday of the month. The meeting itself was boring, conducted as it was by classic rules, but I met some interesting people. It seems that almost everyone who drives a Spitfire is an insanely tall or large person. I thought I was big at 6'2" and 250 lbs., but I was average or even on the small side compared to most of these guys! After the...
