The Small Historic Automobile Group

[...] before any more damage happened – I hope! This time around we didn’t bring a spare engine since we’re in the process of moving our shop, and things are somewhat of a blur. Also, [...]

[...] before any more damage happened – I hope! This time around we didn’t bring a spare engine since we’re in the process of moving our shop, and things are somewhat of a blur. Also, [...]

[...] before any more damage happened – I hope! This time around we didn’t bring a spare engine since we’re in the process of moving our shop, and things are somewhat of a blur. Also, [...]

[...] . It’s been a long story since then, but at the end of it, the car was fitted with the spare engine for this race, as well as a brand new set of Weber carbs. A new engine will be built up [...]

[...] to the floor and hitting the kill switch. At first we thought something was amiss in the valve train, but removing the cyl head showed everything was perfect. Next step was to pull the sump, [...]

[...] to the floor and hitting the kill switch. At first we thought something was amiss in the valve train, but removing the cyl head showed everything was perfect. Next step was to pull the sump, [...]

[...] to the floor and hitting the kill switch. At first we thought something was amiss in the valve train, but removing the cyl head showed everything was perfect. Next step was to pull the sump, [...]

[...] the brand new engine in the blue car had a sudden very gnarly sound emitting from the valve train at cylinder 4 or 3. I managed to stop the engine before any more damage happened – [...]

[...] race treatment along with the crank. As for the lack of grunt in the power plant of the yellow car, we’re confident that’s sorted as well. Over the winter both the primary engines as [...]

[...] race treatment along with the crank. As for the lack of grunt in the power plant of the yellow car, we’re confident that’s sorted as well. Over the winter both the primary [...]

[...] for the first two rounds of the National Championship for Historic Racing. We got the yellow car running thursday afternoon after some gnawing at the distributor, and were all set. [...]

[...] , then into rather brutal power oversteer. We’ll be looking to sort this as well. The yellow car was still gutless unfortunately – this became very apparent as we did some side by side [...]

[...] Imp block. The engine in “George” the blue Imp was indeed quick – for 8 installation laps. Then a rather nasty rattle gave a me a fright. Luckily, having seen what happens to Imp [...]

[...] pulls through the gears like a motorbike! I checked mylaps.com, and even though I just did installation laps to get a feel for the car, as well as coast down the straight, I still did a half-decent [...]

[...] The engine in “George” the blue Imp was indeed quick – for 8 installation laps. Then a rather nasty rattle gave a me a fright. Luckily, having seen what happens to Imp [...]

[...] pulls through the gears like a motorbike! I checked mylaps.com, and even though I just did installation laps to get a feel for the car, as well as coast down the straight, I still did a half-decent [...]

[...] were also a few other items to look at. It was still way too soft, and did lots of traditional Imp 3-wheeling antics. The gearing was also off: I was surprised to find I ran out of 4th [...]

[...] were also a few other items to look at. It was still way too soft, and did lots of traditional Imp 3-wheeling antics. The gearing was also off: I was surprised to find I ran out of 4th [...]

[...] were also a few other items to look at. It was still way too soft, and did lots of traditional Imp 3-wheeling antics. The gearing was also off: I was surprised to find I ran out of 4th [...]

The new Imp performed flawlessly – and after a race-long battle Doc grabbed 2nd in the under 1300cc class. More to follow! All photos: www.racef [...]

The new Imp performed flawlessly – and after a race-long battle Doc grabbed 2nd in the under 1300cc class. More to follow! All photos: www.racefoto. [...]