A Californian drying out in South Africa

[African Imp]

Roy

Save yourself the hassle of pulling plugs

Fit a VAC guage

https://www.pakwheels.com/forums/t/vacu ... ool/178537

Or just add in an wideband sensor to your exhaust and a AFR display

You can see whats happenning in real time rather than "what was" if its a real concern

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Thanks but given I have what is a new engine fitted , its done only 3000 kms or so? I know that things were good mixture wise BEFORE I put petrol with engine oil in it!

Not a lot really, I was interested to see what effect it would have, now I know!

[African Imp]

Roy

Save yourself the hassle of pulling plugs

Fit a VAC guage

https://www.pakwheels.com/forums/t/vacu ... ool/178537

Or just add in an wideband sensor to your exhaust and a AFR display

You can see whats happening in real time rather than "what was" if its a real concern

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I have this gauge, will it work in vacuum testing?

[The Nun]

They were a bit of a gimmick and you can't watch that all the time trying to keep it in the green when you supposed to be looking where you're going.

[Uncle Henry]

No. Just like you cannot watch whats going on around you when you're constantly going to have to look at your speedo to keep to 20 ridiculous miles per hour ! There could well be more accidents !

AG

[Dave ' Linwood ' Lane]

They were a bit of a gimmick and you can't watch that all the time trying to keep it in the green when you supposed to be looking where you're going.

Vac gauges are a boon when tuning and diagnosing engine issues and probably the most useful aftermarket gauge there is

[John A Ross]

No. Just like you cannot watch whats going on around you when you're constantly going to have to look at your speedo to keep to 20 ridiculous miles per hour ! There could well be more accidents !

Must admit Andy, I find it a big problem to sit at 20, the ACC on Helens ID3 handles it just fine but 20 is not a happy speed for anything I have with a manual box, not even the imp. All rev far too high in 3rd or are loaded too much in 4.

Its bonkers.

I really feel the pain of Wales now. They will grind the country to a halt and just gave our delivery and transport infrastructure a big kick in the nuts.

It will be trains next, put in high speed lines and limit them to 50....

[Uncle Henry]

And there's been no mention of the added pollution that's going to follow, with cars needing to drive in a lower gear. Such pollution, as caused, will then be used to add to the call for electric vehicles ! And all because parents can't parent these days, and keep their kids educated about road sense. Our toddlers were on reins back in the day - now seen as an assault rather than a safety measure ! Pathetic. Most young mums walk about with their heads stuck in their phones round our way, with no regard to what the sprogs are up to. And so then someone else can be blamed for their own shortcomings.

AG

[The Nun]

If all those delivery companies said sorry we aren't delivering inside the limited zones you'll have to come to our warehouse on the outskirts and pick up your goods yourself then things would soon start going back to how they were, no beer deliveries to the House of Commons bar

[John A Ross]

Peter

Our supply infrastructure is almost a living thing. Even 20 years ago a tin of beans scanned at the checkout was being loaded onto a cage 300 miles away to navigate the hubs and then to store. Nowdays the information that AI can extract and predict trends makes some of the SciFi movies look like an antique documentery.

But yes time to store is calculated from loading slots in the bay, what is to be loaded, hub to hub, any delay on accident, traffic in town and now the horror of 20 will see some horrific interuptions to service and ultimately used to bump UP prices.

Courier companies ALREADY started to hit us with levies.

Not sure it will promote anything electric Andy, our grid is bother.

Anything for big haulage future as regards green lies with companies like JCB on hydrogen. One of the things that caught my eye is they developed a refueling plant as well as the engine to replace the old site diesel bowser

Given the background in electric ground lifts electric would be easier but they have at least seen the folly.

Next 10-20 years will be interesting. Would be great to be around that ong to see it unfold.

Electric is no good. I charge at home for buttons, likely costs me 1p a mile to run, great for me but looking at the plan to come to the AGM, I am cheaper by a long way bringing the diesel and skipping the extra DAY almost it takes for me to stop and charge.

Day running Helen only typically uses 5% but I used it yesterday evening for "dads taxi" for my son, left with 180 miles on range, went 32 miles ( 2 trips 16 miles round) and was left with less than 75 when I parked up, that was running lights and heater.

On Electric I reckon I am actually better off on expenses at end of the month by a fair bit even paying for the electric car, but the tech and capabilities are not there to replace anything practical yet. Its one of the longer range one and it comes in at nearly 2 TONS ! and yes, I can see it killing roads faster. Smaller cars, Fiats/BMW Minis all sub 100 mile range, I would have struggled last night in either of those.

Needs beer to put the world to rights on that one.

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[John A Ross]

Aplogies Roy !

But back to imps.

Yes there are motors that will drop right in an imp. The adapted milk float one I think is still out there but modern conversions have been done to replace imp lumps.

Same issues.

What would be nice Roy is given your sunshine availability, and its something we though of when we bought our first merc with panoramic roof, is embedding PV cells to the roof for extra charge as you go.

Would not work here, PV cells rarely reach full potential here.

You are indeed in the land of plenty for that Roy.

EV conversion ?

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[The Nun]

Might be easier to just buy an Electric Fiat 500 and stick IMP badges on it, saw one today they're quite nice and very quiet, so quiet i didnt quite hear it coming, but this one didn't have IMP badges but no reason why not
There was a guy doing all these what a modern imp should look like drawings, and some didn't look too bad, and with the cars being available through Peugeot dealerships within a fortnight folk were getting excited, but then reality kicked in and it all died a dearh to be heard of no more.
But anyway until there's a charger virtually for every electric car almost everywhere small EVs are just for going to the town and back, but that would be ideal for you Roy?

[African Imp]

Aplogies Roy !

But back to imps.

Yes there are motors that will drop right in an imp. The adapted milk float one I think is still out there but modern conversions have been done to replace imp lumps.

Same issues.

What would be nice Roy is given your sunshine availability, and its something we though of when we bought our first merc with panoramic roof, is embedding PV cells to the roof for extra charge as you go.

Would not work here, PV cells rarely reach full potential here.

You are indeed in the land of plenty for that Roy.

EV conversion ?

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Given the failure of South Africas Eskom power utility we have just had a 5.1 Kw invertor installed, works as it should too!

[John A Ross]

Roy

I have 9kw here of storage, topped up on an off peak tariff cheap as chips 12.30 to 4.30 am every day.

The EV costs us peanuts to use, so we use it as much as we can. Especially short trips.

The energy store at 9kw lasts no time here with 4 adults in the house

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[African Imp]

No. Just like you cannot watch whats going on around you when you're constantly going to have to look at your speedo to keep to 20 ridiculous miles per hour ! There could well be more accidents !

Must admit Andy, I find it a big problem to sit at 20, the ACC on Helens ID3 handles it just fine but 20 is not a happy speed for anything I have with a manual box, not even the imp. All rev far too high in 3rd or are loaded too much in 4.

Its bonkers.

I really feel the pain of Wales now. They will grind the country to a halt and just gave our delivery and transport infrastructure a big kick in the nuts.

It will be trains next, put in high speed lines and limit them to 50....

Is it all of Wales or just the one town?

Makes little sense?

[African Imp]

Roy

I have 9kw here of storage, topped up on an off peak tariff cheap as chips 12.30 to 4.30 am every day.

The EV costs us peanuts to use, so we use it as much as we can. Especially short trips.

The energy store at 9kw lasts no time here with 4 adults in the house

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We are just the two, with our better and warmer weather we are fine with the 5.1 storage her, we can of course add a second battery pack if we feel the need? Then solar panels too but the added expense doubles the cost to this stage.

[African Imp]

And there's been no mention of the added pollution that's going to follow, with cars needing to drive in a lower gear. Such pollution, as caused, will then be used to add to the call for electric vehicles ! And all because parents can't parent these days, and keep their kids educated about road sense. Our toddlers were on reins back in the day - now seen as an assault rather than a safety measure ! Pathetic. Most young mums walk about with their heads stuck in their phones round our way, with no regard to what the sprogs are up to. And so then someone else can be blamed for their own shortcomings.

AG

Well noted!

[African Imp]

They were a bit of a gimmick and you can't watch that all the time trying to keep it in the green when you supposed to be looking where you're going.

Vac gauges are a boon when tuning and diagnosing engine issues and probably the most useful aftermarket gauge there is

An easy connection is to the take off point on the Rootes twin Stromberg manifolds, however routing the suction hose all the way to the dash in the front of the car is less easy!

[African Imp]

Roy

I have 9kw here of storage, topped up on an off peak tariff cheap as chips 12.30 to 4.30 am every day.

The EV costs us peanuts to use, so we use it as much as we can. Especially short trips.

The energy store at 9kw lasts no time here with 4 adults in the house

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We do not get Off Peak tariffs here , instead we just get a power outage from Eskom the national supplier!