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Turn & Burn

Turn & Burn

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Sorted the insurance today, £157 fully comp all mods declared, agreed value, unbelievable! Probably the only advantage with living up here, well that and the quiet roads.
Registered her as historic and got the road tax sorted.
Went out for my 1st spin, 10 nervous miles! First impressions...
Motor is way smoother than I expected and suprisingly well behaved desipite still being on a base map. I didn’t go past half throttle but it feels like it’s all there, perhaps feels a bit nervous on the slow speed pottering stuff where I’m just feathering the throttle, possibly an effect of the light flywheel.
The brakes are really strong, but they come on with too little progression, I’m not sure how to remedy this, but I guess they need a good bedding in and re-bled.
Steering is heavyish, but incredibly direct when compared to anything modern I drive, possibly more setup required, all I’ve done is tracked it using string.
The BCs feel absolutely fine, no issues at all with harsh ride and they’re not set full soft either.
The speedo was only playing ball intermittently, so I’m sure this is a sticky cable or it’s not fitted properly as I’ve tested the speedo itself.
Didn’t break down-Yeah!!
 
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Ian

Ian

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Great stuff.

Thats cheap insurance, something I would love, my full policy for everything declared and insured to an agreed value is around £900.

Brakes are likely from the servo? Perhaps changing this could help, usually brakes coming on too strong means they are over servo'd.
 
Rob Gaskin

Rob Gaskin

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Ian said:
Great stuff.

Thats cheap insurance, something I would love, my full policy for everything declared and insured to an agreed value is around £900.

Brakes are likely from the servo? Perhaps changing this could help, usually brakes coming on too strong means they are over servo'd.
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Ian £900 is huge!
 
Turn & Burn

Turn & Burn

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Ian said:
Great stuff.

Thats cheap insurance, something I would love, my full policy for everything declared and insured to an agreed value is around £900.

Brakes are likely from the servo? Perhaps changing this could help, usually brakes coming on too strong means they are over servo'd.
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I’m still on the stock 260 larger servo, but I’ve gone up to a 1”m/c. In my experience that should require an increased pedal pressure for a reduced travel. I’m running R32 calipers on 300mm vented discs up front and 200sx calipers on 280zx discs out back, maybe they’re just good brakes in a light car!
 
Ian

Ian

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Turn & Burn said:
I’m still on the stock 260 larger servo, but I’ve gone up to a 1”m/c. In my experience that should require an increased pedal pressure for a reduced travel. I’m running R32 calipers on 300mm vented discs up front and 200sx calipers on 280zx discs out back, maybe they’re just good brakes in a light car!
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That should be good, not too dissimilar to my setup, 310mm pots up front, 205mm single piston floating rear with 260Z booster and a 1" master cylinder. My setup has great control and modulation so I'm sure it possible. Did you remove the stock proportioning valve?



Will shop around for insurance, but for a car like mine the options seem very limited as its extensively modified and I want it to be insured so that I get back what it cost me to build meaning that each expensive modification has to be covered on a like for like basis. After all that is one of the points of being insured so that you can recover your losses. No point having a £70k car inured for £30k.
 
Turn & Burn

Turn & Burn

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Ian said:
That should be good, not too dissimilar to my setup, 310mm pots up front, 205mm single piston floating rear with 260Z booster and a 1" master cylinder. My setup has great control and modulation so I'm sure it possible. Did you remove the stock proportioning valve?



Will shop around for insurance, but for a car like mine the options seem very limited as its extensively modified and I want it to be insured so that I get back what it cost me to build meaning that each expensive modification has to be covered on a like for like basis. After all that is one of the points of being insured so that you can recover your losses. No point having a £70k car inured for £30k.
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Yep, stock valve removed, I have another one fitted to the rear but it’s fully backed off. It was 1st run for the car so sure it will be sorted.
Keep searching I’m sure the price is not totally reflective of the car value, I have value not that far short of yours, so perhaps it’s a postcode thing?? I know my daughters car insurance nearly triples when she’s in Leeds, that’s just a £1000 car.
 
Rob Gaskin

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£900 is not just expensive it's 4 or 5 times expensive! I pay about £160 on my cars.
 
Turn & Burn

Turn & Burn

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I’ve worked through a couple of the issues I reported earlier. As mentioned in another of my posts, the over sensitive brakes were a result of the reaction disc on the servo actuation rod having dropped off through my mishandling. I had to remove the servo and m/c from the car to sort it, but it’s made a huge difference, the brakes feel confidence inspiring. I couldn’t be bothered with a full brake bleed as it was only the 1st 6” of each leg that lost fluid so I tried a reverse bleed pushing fluid back from the slave bleed nipple up to the m/c with a syringe, it worked really well but needs a firm pressure.
The faulty speedo was a result of the eccentric at the gearbox not being rotated enough to place the speedo gear into mesh, easily sorted.
Next job is to quiet the door seals up. The passenger side doesn’t appear to leak much air but the drivers sided gets noisy at 70mph, it may be possible to move the door glass frame in a touch, but I suspect I’ll probably end up with a small rubber tube inside the door seal to expand it.
 
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toopy

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Turn & Burn said:
I couldn’t be bothered with a full brake bleed as it was only the 1st 6” of each leg that lost fluid so I tried a reverse bleed pushing fluid back from the slave bleed nipple up to the m/c with a syringe, it worked really well but needs a firm pressure.
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I could just be me being dumb, but can you elaborate on the above, and what slave cylinder?
 
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