Noobie on here - noob Cerebra owner

Noobie on here - noob Cerebra owner

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jonnybumps

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34 posts

106 months

Monday 8th June 2015
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Gazzab said:
Love the fastback. A mate back in the day had a rover v8 powered one with huge Quattro style arches and painted silk black. Massive tyres. Felt so rapid at the time. Poor beetle gearboxes didn't like it though!
Mine has a 1900 Porsche 914 engine in it , but its not tuned up too much . VW transsexuals do not like too much power thats for sure .

jonnybumps

Original Poster:

34 posts

106 months

Sunday 5th July 2015
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Back onto Tvr things

I am now 1300 miles into Cerbera Ownership and am finally really beginning to love the thing .

It now runs like a dream thanks to Nick at David Gerald - ( now Classic World Racing )

I have fitted a new throttle cable which was fun being a reasonably big unit myself

I am pretty much using it as a daily and went to Goodwood last weekend in it which is a 2 hr drive via Worthing and all was good .

The cats were causing some of the issues and I replaced them with a good second hand set but have decided to keep those for MOT time and am now running the old cat housings with the cat removed - which makes it pop and bang a fair bit .

Now its all running OK the only things I have to sort is the lighting issue which I have narrowed down to one of the siemens relays in the lighting unit - In the mean time I've set the rear lights up off the fog light switch . I also want to change the wheels for a set of 18 inch spiders . Hola if anyone fancies a swap ....

Then is a rolling restoration - I want to tidy up the heat shield under the bonnet and around the battery cables etc - start to detail all the chassis , which has no corrosion but I want to keep it that way .


ukkid35

6,138 posts

172 months

Sunday 5th July 2015
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jonnybumps said:
Then is a rolling restoration - I want to tidy up the heat shield under the bonnet and around the battery cables etc - start to detail all the chassis , which has no corrosion but I want to keep it that way .
I recently found out the hard way that the clutch hose needs heat sheild too. It's no fun driving on the E40 with no clutch.

steviejasp

1,646 posts

164 months

Sunday 5th July 2015
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jonnybumps said:
VW transsexuals do not like too much power thats for sure .
smile Yeah, I've heard that too. wink


jonnybumps

Original Poster:

34 posts

106 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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steviejasp said:
smile Yeah, I've heard that too. wink
Surprised no one else noticed the auto spell mistake

Very good ±!!!!!

Byker28i

58,824 posts

216 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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ukkid35 said:
I recently found out the hard way that the clutch hose needs heat sheild too. It's no fun driving on the E40 with no clutch.
I made it from Bicester to Swindon with some careful gear changes, judgement of the traffic lights (ok antisocial backing up of traffic before use of the loud pedal) and use of the motorway system. I feel your pain, that wasn't fun.

Whilst the fingers were very, very worn, it was actually the slave seals went.

Still I now have a new helix clutch. Seems lighter so far

ukkid35

6,138 posts

172 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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Byker28i said:
I made it from Bicester to Swindon with some careful gear changes, judgement of the traffic lights (ok antisocial backing up of traffic before use of the loud pedal) and use of the motorway system. I feel your pain, that wasn't fun.

Whilst the fingers were very, very worn, it was actually the slave seals went.

Still I now have a new helix clutch. Seems lighter so far
Presumably A34 then M4, hopefully with few junctions either end. My journey was very similar, Merelbeke junction on the E40 to the Campanile in Ghent, and then to Precision Engineering in Mouscron the following morning. I was lucky to be on my way just after 11am, with a new hose made by M.V. Parts sa, Rue du Père Damien 9, 7700 Mouscron.

http://www.passionengineering.eu/

I initially thought the slave seals had melted, but when the hose sprayed fluid over the manifolds I almost cried with joy. Not least because I found I had no recovery (I'd forgotten that Mannings told me my car was now too old for cover with Alps).

I have previously done the Ring back to Ealing with no clutch, but in my other car not the Cerb, rev matching in the Cerb is far more difficult.