Ford Fair

[Burns]

absolutely loved it

 

thanks for everyone who organised it, that can't have been easy

 

so, we up for track time next year?

[MK2Ed]

Was a top day

Thanks to Ed for the loan of the sun cream although I still burnt to a crisp

 

No worries mate... Unfortunate was only factor 15 - OK for sun nutters or application every 15 minutes

[tazrocks88]

whilst it wasnt the best show for old skool fords, it WAS the best show of the year for totty!!! it was everywhere i almost went blind!!!

 

damn just rub it in for those who couldnt come

[cossie matt]

I had a great day, was nice that is was a scorcher instead of raining!!!

 

Would have liked a bit of competition on track, someone to chase but it was still fun, thought everyone was still following the pace car

 

Matt

[Delotus]

Hi i had a txxt of a day to be honest.

Didn't see a single thing.And i know it was a great event and a top show.

 

All was goin great first thing in the morning sunday.

Left wittlebury camp site to meet up with a few of my nephews mate off another stand.

 

Just cruising along and suddenly there was a horrible tappin noise from my engine.

 

Pulls over ,couldnt see anything obviouse,pulls the leads off and found nothing firing on number 3 and 4 cylinders.

 

Gets to where we where meeting up with the other lads,strips off the rocker cover to see if any of the ball studs on the pinto had come loose or tightened up,nothing found.Checked the timing,that was spot on .

 

Decided to head to silverstone and gets there on two cylinders.Said hi to Darren and duly parks up on the stand.

 

Had another go at sussing out what was wrong and again i couldn't see what the problem was.

 

A great thank you to all the lads who gave me a bit of help and support in what turned out to be pritty terminal.

 

Spent ages trying to find a set of spark plugs for a pinto,only found some by chance,tries them...nothing.

Gets a set of heavy duty leads...nothing.

Dissy cap was new.

 

Went back out looking for a compresion tester and i soon found out what the problem was,no compresion on numbers 3 and 4 ,not a jot! number 1 and 2 where spot on.

 

Soon after it was time to get going so i decided to head towards a service station not too far away.

 

Gets there and rang the AA to tell them i will need recovering cus my cars about to blow up.

We will be out within an hour they said.

 

Cutting a very long story short and an overnight stay in a travel lodge,3 changes of recovery trucks later me and my son chris finally made it home late last night well over 30 hours after we rang them on sunday at 4 0clock.

 

Got the cylinder head off tonight,firstly the idiot who built it looks to have not even bothered torqing the head down ,the spark plugs where tighter!!

 

AND

 

I also i think he's used a standard 2.0 gaskit ,its had a rebore to 2.1 and i think it should of had a bigger gaskit on it.

It's blown to bits in between 3 and 4 cylinders.

 

Im going to check all the details tomorrow.Ive got the piston size wrote down.

 

I am sorry i never got to chat with you all but will do next time,and i'll look for some more posts of what i am sure was a top day,sadly not for me.

 

Take care,Tim

 

Oh i was in the modena green mk1 rs OUT 11OM,need to get a new pic up of it,haha

 

Hoping to get to this one again

[DEP]

Blimey mate, what a mare of a w/end you had

[kevmk2]

The best bit of my day was seeing you and your bro snake out of the services onto the M1 giving it proper beans in front of some fat TVR!

 

Cheers mate,that TVR driver wouldnt take the bait when we see him again on the M1,perhaps are exit from the services put him off

[kevmk2]

I had a great day, was nice that is was a scorcher instead of raining!!!

 

Would have liked a bit of competition on track, someone to chase but it was still fun, thought everyone was still following the pace car

 

Matt

 

I would of tried but i was too busy wheelspinning the whole circuit

[X-pack-Glyn]

I noticed my OHC was a bit down on power on the way there...

I also had a problem with my penis

[mk2escortmad]

does anyone realise that that the audi pace car was a deisel!!!! i thought it went pertty good, wouldnt want to buy it as a 2nd hand car. 1 owner from new ( yeah on a race track lol)

[Burns]

never saw the bloody pace car

[DEP]

never saw the bloody pace car

I saw it in the pit lane before we went out on track.