Hartwell Imp - Restoration

[TISPKJ]

[CanAm]

TISPKJ said:

Thank you .... only thing my OCD doesn't like is the gold coil which I'm tempted to paint black

If you could get hold of an offcut of chrome vinyl wrap it would be an easy job, and you could do the oil filler cap too!

[peterperkins]

A joy to behold.. Bet it sounds nice as well..

[TISPKJ]

peterperkins said:

A joy to behold.. Bet it sounds nice as well..

If I could post videos here I could show you but yes does sound well.

[anonymous-user]

TISPKJ said:

Latest update on the car .... I did another test / track day at Brands during the week and again the car ran very well, I shared the day with a good friend of mine who will drive the car in the likely event that we race it.

Car went through a set of rear std brake shoes so am currently investigating why and looking at fitting some kind of brake bias valve.

Also got the car on the scales and its 580kg

few pictures below ...

Edited by TISPKJ on Saturday 22 June 09:23

Get them relined with a race spec material, stock shoes don't last 5 minutes on track in any drum braked car.

Questmead can do this for you. http://www.questmead.co.uk/

[alfie2244]

Any laptimes? Know you not supposed to

[Veesix75]

I’ve only ever used std brake shoe linings in mine, with in line bias valve and it doesn’t wear them out, I reckon I’ve adjusted them up once in 3 seasons. Maybe rear engine makes a difference?

[CanAm]

TISPKJ said:

Also got the car on the scales and its 580kg...........

That makes a mockery of modern small cars!

[peterperkins]

Post the videos on YT then just link them here..

[TISPKJ]

jsf said:

Get them relined with a race spec material, stock shoes don't last 5 minutes on track in any drum braked car.

Questmead can do this for you. http://www.questmead.co.uk/

Yes I'm on it thank you.

[TISPKJ]

alfie2244 said:

Any laptimes? Know you not supposed to

I didn't get any of my times sadly, but my friend was down to one minute, recon I would be maybe 2-3 seconds slower I was looking after the car as well as driving and forgot to get one of the others to time me.
Bearing in mind we are on 7 year old tyres that were only put on to set the car up and gently run around I recon we will have a fair bit more to come.

[TISPKJ]

CanAm said:

TISPKJ said:

Also got the car on the scales and its 580kg...........

That makes a mockery of modern small cars!

It does .... my Golf R was 1477kg, also the cage in the imp i went a bit overkill on and made bigger than I needed and from steel.

[anonymous-user]

TISPKJ said:

It does .... my Golf R was 1477kg, also the cage in the imp i went a bit overkill on and made bigger than I needed and from steel.

Alloy cages aren't allowed.

[alfie2244]

TISPKJ said:

alfie2244 said:

Any laptimes? Know you not supposed to

I didn't get any of my times sadly, but my friend was down to one minute, recon I would be maybe 2-3 seconds slower I was looking after the car as well as driving and forgot to get one of the others to time me.
Bearing in mind we are on 7 year old tyres that were only put on to set the car up and gently run around I recon we will have a fair bit more to come.

Mid 50s would be good and certainly upset a few

[CanAm]

TISPKJ said:

CanAm said:

TISPKJ said:

Also got the car on the scales and its 580kg...........

That makes a mockery of modern small cars!

It does .... my Golf R was 1477kg, also the cage in the imp i went a bit overkill on and made bigger than I needed and from steel.

So without the cage it would probably weigh about the same as a Caterham. Pretty impressive!

[rallycross]

Just saw someone is selling a Hartwell race engine on retro rides, link below (no connection to me) in case you want a genuine Harwell spare motor.

http://forum.retro-rides.org/thread/209792/hillman...

[anonymous-user]

rallycross said:

Just saw someone is selling a Hartwell race engine on retro rides, link below (no connection to me) in case you want a genuine Harwell spare motor.

http://forum.retro-rides.org/thread/209792/hillman...

I paid that much back in the 80's ! It was new and built by ray though.

[ian2144]

Loving this thread. Many happy memories messing about with Imps back in the day, apart from wrestling with rotoflex couplings followed by bleeding knuckles.

On a side note Hartwell also did tuning stuff for the Avenger that pre dates the Tiger.

[TISPKJ]

rallycross said:

Just saw someone is selling a Hartwell race engine on retro rides, link below (no connection to me) in case you want a genuine Harwell spare motor.

http://forum.retro-rides.org/thread/209792/hillman...

How do I contact them ? I don't see any phone numbers ....

[rallycross]

you'd have to log in and message him, I can see his email is [e-mail]