The Triumph Dolomite Club - Discussion Forum

Posted: **Mon Dec 04, 2006 1:26 pm**

This water splash is on video too

Posted: **Mon Dec 04, 2006 5:50 pm**

I would suggest that if your brakes are overheating and you're not on a track, you probably ARE driving like a twat, possibly a massive one. Don't let your young life and promising future turn into a bunch of carnations on a lamp-post mate, you know that would be stupid.

Posted: **Mon Dec 04, 2006 6:44 pm**

Mm...even repeated 0-60-0 runs around Milton Keynes didn't induce brake fade - sounds like you're pushing a little too much for the car, or at least, driving innappropriately for the conditions.

Find your brakes have faded on a corner, slam into oncoming vehicle, game over!

Well said Jod

Posted: **Mon Dec 04, 2006 8:41 pm**

Single track lanes
NO THANKS
I do drive fast
but never down the lanes
I don t fancy taking a tractor with a plough on the back on.
A friend of mine was killed in exactly this way in fillongley corly rocks.

Posted: **Mon Dec 04, 2006 10:21 pm**

These are quiet lanes that lead no where and loop back on them selves. Hardly anybody takes them and if they do you can see them coming from way off due to there head lights... And during the day, well you just drive to what you can see...

Posted: **Tue Dec 05, 2006 9:38 pm**

My car draws the line way before I do!!!

You may mock and think I drive like a twat... but I do drive thse lanes way beyond what these cars were designed with in mind.

This has been weighing on my mind a lot today, in a serious way.

Adam, I don't want to sound like a boring old duffer but I think you're in the wrong part of the confidence / ability curve, both in yourself and with your car. If you're cooking-up your brakes like that then there must be something wrong. Whether its a mechanical issue with the car or the way you're driving it is irrelevant. When you're barrelling into a blind right-hander, pushing the limits of your car and your nerve, it really doesn't matter how much ability you have much when you go for the middle pedal and nothing happens.

There can't be many parents at their children's funerals thinking 'but he was nowhere near the limits of his ability, it was the car that let him down'

The first law of making your car go faster: make it stop quicker.

Until you have better brakes, ease down a bit and stay alive, you know it makes sense.

Posted: **Tue Dec 05, 2006 9:50 pm**

Trees don't have lights, but they are killers if you hit them!!

Posted: **Tue Dec 05, 2006 10:03 pm**

Thanks for the concern Jod

Posted: **Wed Dec 06, 2006 1:47 pm**

Lewis wrote:Mm...even repeated 0-60-0 runs around Milton Keynes didn't induce brake fade - sounds like you're pushing a little too much for the car, or at least, driving innappropriately for the conditions.

Even on a track (OK, one with big long straights to allow the brakes to cool) I couldn't get the V8's brakes to fade. Standard discs & EBC green stuff pads.

O/T: Lewis - I've got a gizmo that works out your 0-60 times... Have you got a similar device? What 0-60 did you get from your V8?

Posted: **Wed Dec 06, 2006 1:53 pm**

Yes, I've got a little G-meter - is that the same as yours perchance? Also does engine HP, 60-0, 1/4 mile times and lateral G forces, I think.

I haven't had a chance to fire it up, yet - will do soon

....And before anyone goes "guffaw", they're VERY accurate for the timing parts (the HP one is just an estimate) and are race-proven. They also match manufacturer's quoted times for standard vehicles.

Posted: **Wed Dec 06, 2006 2:05 pm**

Yeah, they'ree good little gizmos.

If you can find yourself a long enough layby, you can have great fun trying to get into the 6's, whilst waking up a few lorry drivers with your V8 roar

Mmm... really, really must get mine back on the road.... Tempted to ebay these annoying IDF's and just bite the bullet, reach for the credit card, and buy a Weber 500...

Posted: **Wed Dec 06, 2006 2:08 pm**

Why not just bosh a pair of SU's on it for the meantime? Few on 'bay for about 40 quid including the fannymold and linkages, good to go.......give you a good stop-gap and have it sorted!

Posted: **Wed Dec 06, 2006 2:11 pm**

Probably a silly question, but would MGF brake discs fit? 240mm diameter, or so the internet says...

Posted: **Wed Dec 06, 2006 2:27 pm**

Lewis wrote:Why not just bosh a pair of SU's on it for the meantime? Few on 'bay for about 40 quid including the fannymold and linkages, good to go.......give you a good stop-gap and have it sorted!

The only thing that's stopping me doing that is my being annoyed with myself for part-ex'ing my SU's with the guy I bought the IDF's from. (They were well sorted, properly jetted for the cam setup) Bloke's now got them on a mate's landy.

Grr..

Posted: **Wed Dec 06, 2006 2:33 pm**

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Rover-V8-SU-carbs ... 0058720906

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/range-rover-v8-ca ... 0057004314

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Rover-v8-carbs-sd ... 0058242307

Go man, Go!

You can then resell them come better weather for the same amount and change over to whatever fuelling you desire

And it's a V8, if it runs lumpily on it's cam, well, that'll be even more noisy then

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