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Post by Graham Wood on Aug 8, 2014 5:50:01 GMT
NITRO -What are their experiences and especially what it takes for such a system before it works like it schould. To be honest, even though I suggested Nitro, I think you should just get your tuned engine ( make sure the crank / rods / pistons / flywheel are balanced ) , as nitro may be too extreem, even for the Eagle. I think you will find with a ford 2000 single OHC,( Pinto engines they are called )done the way you suggest, you will have enough extra power. You can always add nitro later, which is set up by the installer to operate correctly. Another way of looking at the Eagle is , It looks fast, therefore there is no need to prove it is.
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Post by Graham Wood on Aug 7, 2014 10:16:34 GMT
[quote-DIY]I'm curious, do you feel the difference between 40 DCOE and standard carb clear, or is it negligible, what difference does it make in consuming?
Nitro but if your engine will endure it long?
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Webber 40 DCOE's
Your engine can only take in 2000cc of air fuel mixture, so changing the carb from downdraught to side mounted it can still only suck in 2000 cc ( 500 cc each cylinder )
Air can be compressed: Fuel ( liquid ) cannot be compressed. In my opinion, the only reason why 40 DCOE's produce a bit more power is because a standard downdraught carb' manifold makes the air mixture go round 2 tight bends and one curve, and DCOE's have two very slight bends, as it is directly onto the inlet port of the head, hence more efficient, and less change in air direction.
For more power means you need more petrol and more air ( still in the correct ratio ) and for that, you have a turbo charger or supercharger. A Naturaly aspirated tuned engine just gets the air in smoother, maybe increases the size of the inlet ports a small amount, and engine is balanced ( or should be ) gets fuel in and out smoother, and balanced engine does not slow down the free reving of the engine therefore you have a resonable increase in power.
Maybe an increase in compresion ratio, but you may need fuel additive ( lead ).
I have built a few engines myself, had crankshaft reground, and parts mentioned balanced. You can "hone" the cyliner bores with a "flexhone" if bores are good ( not too much lip where the pistons change direction at the top.)
Do NOT fit piston rings that say they are for a worn engine, as I find them to be too big, and stick in the piston grooves, therefore you lose compresion.
Nitro. if you have a good crankshaft ( within manufacturers tolerances ) new bearings, and pistons, then short bursts of nitro wont harm the engine. You can get the connecting rods shot peened to remove any potential weak / stress points.
A tuned engine is maximum free reving via balancing and get fuel / air in and out quickly.
There is nothing wrong with you getting a pre built tuned engine as you suggest, and Decent low budget carbs and 4 branch exhaust manifold. The more power you produce and use, the less time the engine will last. a 1300 VW air cooled engine used in anger ( no power ) will last 20 times longer than a 2000cc turbo Evo used in anger.
what difference does it make in consuming? ( Carb ) I used up to one gallon ( 4.5 L ) more in 160 miles ( 257 Km )if used in anger. ( Motorways )but keep below 65 mph ( 104 Kmh )and you get good consumption.
It is your choice what you do. Suggest build yourself, ( only if you have done it a few times and had no problems ) to save money.
good luck, but remember, you will have to sell it at some point and you will lose a LOT of money, and as you have a few eagles, so go Get an Evo.
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Post by Graham Wood on Aug 1, 2014 21:21:06 GMT
Again, mine is a 2000 cc Pinto, fully restored / reconditioned including main and big end shells. Standard 4 speed gearbox.
I used to have 4 x 40DCOEs webber carbs, but were jetted for an RS 2000, so drank too much fuel. Only changed to standard single original carb 2 months ago. Power from a good Ford 2000 pinto is all you need.
As Mentioned by Peter, the SS is not designed for agility. Next to no weight on the rear, and tyres larger than on a heavier cortina, so too much power can be dangerous. Build a standard pinto engine, have the crankshaft, rods and pistons and flywheel balanced, which DOES help produce a bit more power.
Then put "Nitro" on it ( straight line 5 second bursts only ) for THAT thrill.
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Post by Graham Wood on Jul 21, 2014 1:16:18 GMT
Ford probe is, I think, a Mazda engine, and front wheel drive, and if so, forget it. Not worth the expense to modify.
If I was offered an Eagle with a Mazda engine, ( has the mazda fuel injection ), I would walk away and not buy it.
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Post by Graham Wood on Jul 18, 2014 23:10:53 GMT
The dashboard at 0050 in video is as you know, left hand drive. The Vehicle registration number is V 5500 not english but Country CZ. May have been the reg you mentioned, but I don't rceognise the dash. the car V 500 is reported to now be in a museum somewhere. The dash with the 3 holes on the side wing of the eagle is the dashboard you refer to. Some pretty pictures of same for everyone are below. Click pic, it may get bigger ?
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Post by Graham Wood on Jun 10, 2014 15:53:23 GMT
Chap is selling 9 items, and ALL "for a friend he has no computer"
Hmmmmmmmmm !
SS shells. He wants £ 300 each. You can pick up a COMPLETE one, with engine / chassis from £ 300.
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Post by Graham Wood on May 15, 2014 17:50:40 GMT
scooby and Peter.
thanks for the input.
Trailer HAS to be on the cheap, has to be minimum work.
Steel angle base chassis, indespension type suspension, so as to give maximum square space under the body. Access via full width door at front, as it only needs one panel bent in 2 places to follow the door shut line, and minimum work to modify top at window for seal and bracing.
Any other mods will make it yet another expensive and time consumong fad, which I can't afford. Am not going to fibreglass anything, except round the door apperture at top to fit flat bent in 2 places door.
I have a trailer, but is too high, so dont need another trailer, custom made, just to take to the occational Kit car show. So it's as it stands or no trailer at all, but as all things are "fads", maybe not practicable.
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Post by Graham Wood on May 15, 2014 9:33:52 GMT
For once, the girlfriend is right DAM and blast. Now have to tell her she was right. Not looking forward to that ! I like it ( sort of ) and a new steel trailer is £ 600 and £ 300 for fibreglass top, so could do SS trailer for £ 600
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Post by Graham Wood on May 14, 2014 23:42:48 GMT
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Post by Graham Wood on May 14, 2014 22:10:18 GMT
peter" Being nosy, what the heck are you going to do with back end of a SS?[/quote]
Hope no one was going to ask .............
But.........
To make a trailer. But girlfriend does not like it, says looks stupid ? But better than a rectangular box !
Any thoughts anyone ?
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Post by Graham Wood on May 13, 2014 17:29:02 GMT
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Post by Graham Wood on May 12, 2014 14:46:42 GMT
Am looking for an eagle SS, front engined, body shell. in the next 5 days ( 5 day reason not important, but much longer if none available ) Must have good rear end, rear glass, rear glass tunnel, boot lid, rear wheels and tyres and rear bumper and lights.
Otherwise I will have to cut up a complete Eagle SS for the parts I need.
so if anyone has a knackered body, but with a good back end ( or other ) let me know.
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Post by Graham Wood on May 7, 2014 0:24:22 GMT
but where are our photos, who got there? I WILL be there next year Saw the Volksmagic Nova in satin black and I am now 90% sure that's what I going to have with the carbon fibre bonnet, boot etc. Some very nice Novas and that Avante is stunning. I got there on Sunday. Met with Terry ( Terryrob ) and was offered a beer or tea at Eagle pitch, but declined. Met briefly with Helen on the Jago stand too. Photos ? Forgot my camera, ( left it in other car ) so no joy there. Sunday there was Terry's RV, and the red RV had just arrived when I went back to see the Avante, which sounds just normal from it's Golf engine. I always look to see if my old Nova is there, but when people respray / modify, you can never tell. Saw the Avante drive off, then went for a burger AT £ 5 a go. Discusting price. Thinking of going for 2 days next year with full camping equipment so can do my own burgers ! Will have both propane and butane, so hot burgers all round if any others turn up. Hope to see you next year Peter.
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Post by Graham Wood on May 3, 2014 13:35:44 GMT
font size="2"] Leave step cut in the middle to reduce length as you will never get the ends finished to the standard they are now. Leave ends as they are, as no one cares about how the ends look, only that you have a functional side step that has nice finished ends that is at the right height for it to work See my side steps below. Mine were funtional and for ease of actualy getting in and out and at a height that works for me., and not cosmetic. Car never went off road so step height did not matter. Inch by inch hollow square section brackets, welded at angles and just drilled through and drilled through chassis frame. One ¾ inch thick timber base and alloy tread plate step.
Astheticaly, the steps could have been higher, but i wanted ease of entry, and not a step that was too high off the ground that it was pointless to have a step there.
But it's your car, your legs, and you have to look at it and be pleased with what you fitted.
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Post by Graham Wood on May 2, 2014 1:14:17 GMT
As it is still active on the DVLA data base it must base been licensed recently Date of Liability 20 10 1987, is when the tax disc ran out. Applied for on 20/4/87 My date of Liability shows when I last taxed it, and confirmed by the tax disc in the window. But, Stoneleigh 2 days away. ( Hope it does not rain - - But this is England, it rains ! )
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Post by Graham Wood on May 1, 2014 20:07:05 GMT
wonder where Q459 GBG is now? Off subject ( Stoneleigh ) but know I sold it in 87. Only needs a crash to write it off. Too good to scrap as was only one year old and ex Demo, so was a nice one.
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Post by Graham Wood on May 1, 2014 12:12:23 GMT
Thanks terryrob and Peter for your admiration of colour scheme etc.
Can someone give me a mobile phone number of Gary & Helen, just in case the short time I am there they are elsewhere ( looking at cars / in deep and meaningful conversations / pros and cons of respective kit cars etc etc with other visitors )
Send me a "message"
Many thanks
( Not the place to put a pic, but I was a "Nutter" for cars, and still am. but photo of "Stable of 20 years ago" Caddy, covin Porche 911 replica, Nova 1500, ex Eagle cars demonstrator : All sold : [ Was an Eagle agent for a few years ] )
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Post by Graham Wood on Apr 30, 2014 10:08:32 GMT
Thanks Peter for your last 2 posts.
It explains where the Eagles are and are not.
Will be at Stoneleigh on Sunday, 1pm, give or take 30 minutes as it's a 3 hour drive.
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Post by Graham Wood on Apr 29, 2014 12:34:04 GMT
Hi is it possible to have a perspex sheet made up? using windscreen as a template (as mine is cracked) its cost affective and strong Anything is possible. You can fit smaller wheels and tyres to save money, etc, etc, etc. Up to you if you want to try a perspex windscreen, but buy a new or secondhand one. Pilkingtons may do them, and they will be at Stoneleigh kit car show, so I will ask them if they still do them. Expect a £ 400 price tag. Advice, get a glass windscreen. You got the car for nothing. But as above, windcreens have to now be laminated ( Elf a safety )
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Post by Graham Wood on Apr 29, 2014 12:24:11 GMT
Hi, welcome. You say you have an Eagle SS, but it's only a rolling chassis. I assume the body came with it ? Is it rear engined, or front engined ? If it has a subfame at the front, it should be the front suspension from a Ford cortina mark 3 to 5, ( assume the subframe is at the front ? ) If so, the front springs may not be the cortina springs, just maybe something to hold it up at the moment. Send us some pics, as some one may be able to help. Pictures. Resize your pictures, I'ts easy in the free " Paint shop pro, 3.11 " ( I have the exe file if you wish ) Save pictures as extension jpg my eagle pics are between 330kb and 500 kb JPG ( jpeg ) are compressed files, so you will see 2 sizes. one on file manager shows the compressed size, lets say 330 kb, but when expanded, in a paint program, will ( may ) show it's uncompressed size, in my case a 500kb expands to 1.5 Mb. Resize pictures as well, as pics can be exceptionaluy large, so suggest 800 pixels wide, or if your paint program works in inches, divide pixels by 96, and you get inches. Will add pic for front subfame later, on here. Front suspension Ford. Looking from front of car ( Bad scan of bad photo ( 25 years ago )) Underside.[/i]
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Post by Graham Wood on Apr 29, 2014 0:48:19 GMT
I will be going with the RV on saturday mid afternoon and will be there till monday mid afternoon. Anyone else going ? You are saying you will be there Saturday, but the Show is 2014 BANK HOLIDAY WEEKEND Sunday 4th & Monday 5th May, just in case people may think it's a 3 day event, without looking on internet I'll be there, could be Sunday, 12:30 pm ish, but last year no cars where there the first day, so is it best to go on Monday ? Can take photos, resize etc Better pic added. ( Not pink anymore ) [
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Post by Graham Wood on Apr 25, 2014 18:47:02 GMT
The car that wont be going to Stoneleigh is my current Eagle SS in the Garage.
Bad pic' - ( Car is red, not various shades of pink )
Yes, that's a Honda 750 - 4 at the back. To be collected ( sold ) shortly for more than I paid for it but still needs bringing back to life, but as we all know, we just don't have time to do everything.
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Post by Graham Wood on Apr 25, 2014 1:01:53 GMT
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Post by Graham Wood on Aug 27, 2013 9:23:42 GMT
Thank you for your explanation, The eagle space was at the end of the row, with Jago the next space, and jagos are jagos, so when you see jagos overflowing into the empty Eagle space, it does not automatically compute that there are Eagle members in the Jagos !
regarding the cost, you were there with a "van full of jago owners club gear".
I was not impressed with the racing and watched for a FULL 90 seconds. I can't stand those tiny westfields, Lotus 7 types I saw in the morning. And I did not go to see toy cars racing, or any racing.
The show was over in 90 minutes ( 1½ hours ) such was the small indoor space and lack of OTHER marks of kit cars. Donnington will never come anywhere near Stoneleigh's venue.
I hope that my comments ( not complaints ) may spur the committe members to at least put a tent up, a flag, and at the least, a board of large pictures of previous shows, and some literature showing completed eagles, a nameboard 4 foot long ( 1.2 m )etc etc.
I may be biased as I ran a Nova owners club and did similar at shows. ( many many years ago ) But even if no cars show up, interesting information is displayed, together with a mobile phone number of rep at the show if no one available on the stand / club area.
Maybe by voicing comments on here, we may shame some into action. ( better info at stand, or members cars turning up )
Hopfully, suggestions above may be forwarded to those responsible for manning the club stands.
Thanks anyway for the time spent on the website and pro board, and for reserving club spaces at shows.
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Post by Graham Wood on Aug 25, 2013 22:09:49 GMT
( 2012, saw one RV, i think, but plenty of novas opposite. 2013, saw one tired RV, no stand, no tent, no reps, but plenty of novas opposite. )
2013 again at Donington today, no stand, no tent, no reps, no cars, and later, space was taken over by Jago Jeeps.
is the owners club a figment of my imagination ? Twice I have looked forward to meeting some members/ reps etc, but alas, it's not to be.
Also, I will not be going to Donington again, as it's just one "Limited space" small hall, and that's it. Certainly not worthy of calling it a National Kit car event, more like a "local" event, nor spending £ 30 for 2 to go into the hall.
Unfortunately, due to illness, I was unable to get my Eagle Ford SS ready in time.
But maybe catch some / someone next year.
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Post by Graham Wood on May 12, 2013 23:09:15 GMT
How many Novas made ?
Approximately
1015 to 1025 total U.K. Production.
Mk1. 180 SSD < 10 Mk2. 820 Mk4. 15
Including Overseas licences About 5000 made in total.
I had the pleasure of visiting the Designer Richard Oakes in his London Mews flat/house, and I formed and ran the "Nova Owners Club" many years ago.
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Post by Graham Wood on May 8, 2013 0:19:50 GMT
Hopefully RAM there will be more cars at stoneleigh 2012 and I will be there with or without my RV. I hope you can come it will be a pleasure to meet you as you are an ex eagle owner and entheusiast. 2012, saw one RV, i think, but plenty of novas opposite. 2013, saw one tired RV, no stand, no tent, no reps, but plenty of novas opposite. No SS eagles. Are eagle SS's dead ? Much better than a Nova, so why no interest ? . Been unemployed for a while, but have some cash now to resurrect my Eagle, but has to go to a GOOD home. Concerted effort required by all SS owners to attend BOTH days. Will re advertise on here if permitted in a few months. Thanks PS> I missed you
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Post by Graham Wood on Nov 25, 2012 22:40:48 GMT
The "up to £ 3000" eagle for sale is mine.
Rebuilt suspension, engine, etc etc.
Current offer at to days date is £ 2600.
I would dearly like to keep it in England, so if any one is interested, but before Christmas, drop me a line.
Regards.
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Post by Graham Wood on Dec 3, 2011 21:58:29 GMT
Thanks to all the people who answered.
Info. Used to be an Eagle nut.
Had a Nova, Eagle series one ( VW ) RV Automatic. was an eagle agent for a short time. Had stands at shows, so you can hopfully understand why I was upset at not seeing any Eagle cars at shows.
But am currently building Ferrari 355 replica by the way.
But thanks for the replies and photo's
R.a.M.
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