Basically me!
An old family friend called me today with tales of woe from a local garage. This chap had been quoted £900 to get his 2 post lift back in action and my old mate thought of me. I sell and repair the stuff so not quite as surreal as it first seems!
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So after a bit of banter on old times he goes on to say how he used to help my dad with his cars. I told him I was rebuilding the stag, at which he said you know thats a Vitesse engine in that....Duh... well no I didn't know. Oh yes he said when I was at leyland (cowley plant, he was the chauffer in the transport division) we senta consignment of SD1 vitesses to Australia, they got all banged up in the container and the Aussies didn't want them! So BL instructed them to just return the engine/gearbox units and ship them back for reuse.
The engines duly arrived at Cowley when good old british beauracy stepped in. As the engines had been consigned once they could not get them back into the system!
So all these engines/gearbox units were just sitting around. So that's how he got hold of one I thought!
. Well I pressed him on the subject and said if it was a vitesse why isn't it fuel injected? Oh he said your dad didn't understand it so he took it off and junked it!!!!!!!!!!
I did check the engine number and sure enough it is a type 30A.Vitesse 9.75:1 CR.
I hope for gods sake it wasn't a Twin Plenum or I would be pig sick!
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An old family friend called me today with tales of woe from a local garage. This chap had been quoted £900 to get his 2 post lift back in action and my old mate thought of me. I sell and repair the stuff so not quite as surreal as it first seems!
.So after a bit of banter on old times he goes on to say how he used to help my dad with his cars. I told him I was rebuilding the stag, at which he said you know thats a Vitesse engine in that....Duh... well no I didn't know. Oh yes he said when I was at leyland (cowley plant, he was the chauffer in the transport division) we senta consignment of SD1 vitesses to Australia, they got all banged up in the container and the Aussies didn't want them! So BL instructed them to just return the engine/gearbox units and ship them back for reuse.
The engines duly arrived at Cowley when good old british beauracy stepped in. As the engines had been consigned once they could not get them back into the system!
So all these engines/gearbox units were just sitting around. So that's how he got hold of one I thought!
. Well I pressed him on the subject and said if it was a vitesse why isn't it fuel injected? Oh he said your dad didn't understand it so he took it off and junked it!!!!!!!!!!I did check the engine number and sure enough it is a type 30A.Vitesse 9.75:1 CR.
I hope for gods sake it wasn't a Twin Plenum or I would be pig sick!
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