A400M Crash

[expat]

You will not be impressed Paul, but I have just taken delivery of an electronic ignition conversion kit for my MGB roadster........No more pissing about with setting points and condenser wiring. Install, set up and leave well alone.......

[Jetranger]

Yup, bout' like 1/2 or 75% of these new cars , trucks, SUV's their sellin everybody now days, seems like about every make and model is under some type of Recall.

I'm about to sell all my newer vehicles including my Dodge Challenger and go back to All Pre- 1972 vehicles & models.

My former rides included a 1972 Oldsmobile cutlass Supreme 350 / auto

a 1968 SS Camaro 350 LT-1 / 4 speed

1970 CST Chevrolet truck 350 / auto / factory Air !

1966 Chevrolet Pick up Deluxe with factory Air - 283 / automatic

1971 Camaro 350 / auto

1981 chev. pick up shortbed

These newer vehicles after 1990 are all Junk, over engineered plastic pieces Shhhhhhh !!!

Sensors for this - sensors for that and another sensor for that sensor and all the computer ecm modules junk whatever !!

poorly made & designed parts & software with very little if any quality control in the process !!!

and guess what - you get to pay for that $25,000 or $40,000 dollar vehicle, that's now in the repair shop out of warranty, that'll the bill will be $1800.00 or more and the vehicle doesn't even have 100,000 miles on it yet.

Frankly, I and everybody I'm talking to is fed up with all this over - engineered junk, that doesn't work, is in-effective and over rated !!!

[Fozzer]

You will not be impressed Paul, but I have just taken delivery of an electronic ignition conversion kit for my MGB roadster........No more pissing about with setting points and condenser wiring. Install, set up and leave well alone.......

Oh ye, of great faith in computerised electronics, Matt!.... ... ...!

Don't forget to carry a small Intel Central Processor with you on your travels....

Paul.... ... ...!

CDI ignition (£15 little box of tricks) on my little 1983 Yamaha kick-start baby!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor ... e_ignition

Paul.....The joys of Feeler Gauges and Contact-breaker points!... ...!

[expat]

You will not be impressed Paul, but I have just taken delivery of an electronic ignition conversion kit for my MGB roadster........No more pissing about with setting points and condenser wiring. Install, set up and leave well alone.......

Oh ye, of great faith in computerised electronics, Matt!.... ... ...!

Don't forget to carry a small Intel Central Processor with you on your travels....

Paul.... ... ...!

Nothing that complicated Paul.....



Matt

[Fozzer]

You will not be impressed Paul, but I have just taken delivery of an electronic ignition conversion kit for my MGB roadster........No more pissing about with setting points and condenser wiring. Install, set up and leave well alone.......

Oh ye, of great faith in computerised electronics, Matt!.... ... ...!

Don't forget to carry a small Intel Central Processor with you on your travels....

Paul.... ... ...!

Nothing that complicated Paul.....

https://www.simviation.com/phpupload/upl ... 219213.jpg

Matt

Looks similar to the conversion kits fitted to old 4-cylinder Japanese Motorcycles fitted with Contact Breaker ignition!

My 2-stroke Bike has a pulse coil fitted inside the Magneto flywheel alternator which triggers a pulse to a small Thyristor box firing the spark plug...perfect timing...fat spark....and no Feeler Gauges required... ...!

...some things are better.!... ... ...!

Paul.... ....!

[logjam]

Foz, the pic of that '52 Morris Minor on wiki that you hijacked was actually mine. I bought it for 5 quid from a broke airman in Norfolk in 1967. The gearbox lay shaft had broken through the casting and jammed up the clutch. The engine was original 914cc no water pump or heater. I rebuilt it with an ohv gold seal engine inc water pump and painted it Jaguar metallic maroon. I had it for a year before being posted to Singapore. The woman I sold it to wrecked it and someone else bought it as is. I was devastated. However, just a coup[le of years ago I had an e-mail from someone asking me to confirm my entry in the log book and afterwards sent me some wonderful pictures, that one in Wiki included. It's true, I was there, I was that soldier.

[Fozzer]

Foz, the pic of that '52 Morris Minor on wiki that you hijacked was actually mine. I bought it for 5 quid from a broke airman in Norfolk in 1967. The gearbox lay shaft had broken through the casting and jammed up the clutch. The engine was original 914cc no water pump or heater. I rebuilt it with an ohv gold seal engine inc water pump and painted it Jaguar metallic maroon. I had it for a year before being posted to Singapore. The woman I sold it to wrecked it and someone else bought it as is. I was devastated. However, just a coup[le of years ago I had an e-mail from someone asking me to confirm my entry in the log book and afterwards sent me some wonderful pictures, that one in Wiki included. It's true, I was there, I was that soldier.

Hello, Log.... ...!

A fascinating read!

I watch "Unsolved Mysteries" on my TV each night....>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsolved_Mysteries

...and Denis Farina hasn't come up with that one so far!... ...!

My Morris Minor Traveller suffer its final death back in the 1970's with a broken crankshaft due to over-revving trying to race another car to the next roundabout after leaving work!
The broken ends managed to remain attached together until I slowly rode it back home.....

...scrapped the whole car, together with its rotted door sills!

...after that, came my Austin Cambridge....(with similar rot).

British Cars came with built-in rot, straight from the factory.

I gave up owning motor cars in 1990....just my Motor bikes from now on. Cheaper to run, no Parking charges, and no problems!

Paul.... ...!