Pics of the Irish Rally Car

[cliorod]

I've still got that engine ..in bits,ported head and big valves with Columbi Bariani Cams...new block,crank,rods,pistons ..strange though it is,there were no vernier pulleys.I bet in total it aint done 2000miles
Its at Fletcher Racing services waiting for me,to get built and flog it off maybe ,As the years roll by for me ?????Im not sure what to do,my own engine has done b**ger all.
The beam is a proper Gp.A affair with studs to retain the shocks etc.
The story of the shell :- Mark Carson was parts manager at the Belfast Renault main agents,when the "Works" Renault rally team did the British Championship,they based at Marks garage.Alain Oreille & Robbie Head,Mark was the third points scoring member for the Renault team,however a few weeks before the Circuit of Ireland,Mark totalled the car,and it needed reselling.He contacted Tim Jackson and explained the situation....a Brand new Standard shell was then supplied.....Hence the not so clever welding in areas,where Marks shell prepping people did the shell,that's the state of it now...a million times nicer than it was and a credit to Paddy.Also al the "good" bits ended up on mine.
I sold Flan the discs and calipers,seats and other stuff to guys on the Forum

[16v_paddy]

Aup Rodders! Howz it going?

Dunno if you've seen it but I blew the bloody thing up at Castle Combe Totalled the cylinder head & cams but the block is fine, so new head & even lairier cams along with the custom exhaust will have it back in action pretty soon

[northy]

so how come the registrations were swapped Rod? Did they say anything about that?

[cliorod]

I dunno unless they built the current from the ground up ..the current reg QNI...is the Irish equivalent of out "Q" plate ,Im not sure but I think the log-book Paddy has states built from new parts..or something like that.....If not the log book,I vaguely remember reading it.Paddy got all the stuff with it.

[16v_paddy]

Speaking of stuff that came with the logbook, this was in amongst the paperwork

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[16v_paddy]

Well it's about time I updated this & gave a brief snapshot of what happened

Was an epic day at Combe, the changes made since Bedford have completely transformed the car, it was genuinely fast & I'm happy as a pig in s**t with it

Things didn't quite go according to plan though


Exhaust cam decided to seize up whilst going flat out around Folly - circa 100mph

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The cam locked up and the force of the engine still spinning ripped the pulley right off then bending a load of valves

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Plus a bit of backfiring through the cylinders with bent inlet valves



Net result is a scrap cylinder head and a destroyed cam and pulley, fortunately the shape of the high comp pistons saved the day as the valves hit them perfectly square over the whole face of the valves so they didn't dig in & break off

[16v_paddy]

A short while after the disaster the car was booked in for a full custom exhaust to be made & as the guy doing it had a 6-8 week waiting list to get in we went ahead with it anyway.


1.75 inch primaries into 2 inch secondaries then 2.5 inches all the way to the back

















After the exhaust, I sold my MX5 & bought Beanies old gearbox with Gripper diff






Unfortunately after that lot I ended up buying an Accord Type R which then cost me a fortune in bits & bobs so the Valver has been on hold since then.
But I managed to source another head, with matching cam carriers from a friend which has prompted digging the car out of the dirty garage for a bit of a scrub up








Also got round to fixing a tiny fuel leak from a crack in the bottom of the filler neck by replacing the filler neck & aux tank with a poverty spec filler neck






And now is where we really get down to business with the new parts, solid lifters, uprated valve springs & retainers and a set of Piper 300 cams




The head is currently at an engineering place in Warrington having all the necessary bits & bobs done to rebuild it sorted out & checked thoroughly. Next step when the head is ready is to make room in the workshop, get the car in & the engine removed so we can take it to the engineering place & see if the pistons need to be machined because of the mega lairy cams then reassemble the bastard thing

[Robinson16v]

Love that exhaust! Well I love the whole car. Always love reading your threads. Haven't you got a williams project?

[16v_paddy]

Headshop?

Yep

Love that exhaust! Well I love the whole car. Always love reading your threads. Haven't you got a williams project?

Yeah got a Williams project as well but that's not getting touched until the Valver is sorted, the pile of new parts for it is steadily getting bigger though