The Roaring Season

by **Greg Mackie** » Mon Jun 05, 2017 2:15 am

Yes bce, I do know Bob...he's the one who informed me of 'the birthdays'.

His photo collection is awesome. He sent me some beaut shots of my VW Beetle at Catalina Park, 1963.

by **bce257** » Mon Jun 05, 2017 1:18 am

Greg Mackie wrote:Just found out Bill Buckle will be 93 soon...and the Buckle will be 60 !

Greg, you might know of the guy who runs the bucklecoupe website, I got my manifolds off him a while ago so quite possible they came off a Buckle at some time.

He has some great racing pics
http://www.bucklecoupe.com.au/gallery201.htm

by **Greg Mackie** » Sun Jun 04, 2017 10:41 pm

Just found out Bill Buckle will be 93 soon...and the Buckle will be 60 !

by **Greg Mackie** » Wed May 31, 2017 7:28 am

In the late '50s, when I was an apprentice panel-beater, a bloke brought in the prototype of a car he wanted to make. It was a nice looking coupe, and he wanted it trimmed.

Under the bonnet there was a Zephyr engine, with a Raymond Mays head...and 3 SUs attached. When it came time to pick up the car, one of my mates asked the owner to give us a 'demo'. He laid 2 strips of rubber up the road, which were a talking point for ages!

Oh, the bloke's name was Bill Buckle...

by **Kevin Hirst** » Mon May 29, 2017 8:56 pm

GD66 wrote:[ATTACH=CONFIG]43780[/ATTACH]

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Nice !

Loved making similar manifold's " back in the day" & fly cutting the top of MK2 block's to fit bigger valve's

by **GD66** » Sat May 27, 2017 8:36 am

Nice !

by **bce257** » Sat May 27, 2017 8:03 am

After 1600miles of punishment on some pretty nasty roads over the last few weeks, the RM head has been the best upgrade ever. It really transforms a lazy underpowered donk into something that can make the speedo needle disappear inside the dash without too much trouble while being docile enough to tow trailer loads of rubbish around the farm. And it makes a fantastic noise.

Oops.

by **bce257** » Wed Mar 15, 2017 8:04 pm

Andrew Metford wrote:Are these SU DU carbs?

Kind of. I always wanted the look of triple carbs but not Webers and preferably not carbs. The original DU6s are impossible to find now and weren't a good carb anyway so I copied the basic look from online pics and reproduced them with modern bits inside.

Apparently SU (Burlen Fuel Systems) is reproducing the originals but it has all gone quiet now after showing some rapid prototyped units at Goodwood a few years ago. I wonder if they found that after all these years, they are still not a good carb. They are also amping up for a release of their fuel injected SU carb this year with all the modern bits hidden inside. Pity they didn't combine those two concepts from the outset, would have saved me a lot of mucking about.

by **Andrew Metford** » Wed Mar 15, 2017 6:34 pm

bce257 wrote:[ATTACH=CONFIG]42404[/ATTACH]

Are these SU DU carbs?

by **Paul B** » Wed Mar 15, 2017 8:59 am

I had a Mk 3 Zodiac with a Raymond Mays 12 port head and a R Mays 78deg overlap cam, it had twin SU carbs.
from memory it had Bedford pistons, some people used Valiant AP5 pistons.
It had a floor shift with a Ford transit gearbox casing with Mk 3 gears fitted (nice short shift)
It was a great car and at the time, I thought it was quick, until I came up against a BDA escort.

I remember when I put my foot hard into it you could see the gas gauge moving!

by **bce257** » Tue Mar 14, 2017 9:42 pm

RM head with six straight induction pipes.

[video=youtube_share;P5K9FBcBjwU]https://youtu.be/P5K9FBcBjwU[/video]

by **Rod Grimwood** » Sat Mar 11, 2017 11:06 pm

BCE, was a couple years back, thought this was tidy, can not see number 8 wire lol

by **Grant Sprague** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 9:15 pm

Ernies Mk 3 using his Raymond Mays Cyl head at Levin

by **Grant Sprague** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 9:08 pm

BCE , if you click on to "sprague family photos" go to page 11 you will see Ernie tuning carbs on his Mark 3 replica racing zepher with the Raymond Mays Cyl head

by **Ray Bell** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 10:52 am

Try opening them this way:

https://s26.postimg.org/d37eqywc9/0317frzodiacvert.jpg

https://s26.postimg.org/qmsuaezp5/0317frzodiacoverdrive.jpg

https://s26.postimg.org/qvltmln3t/0317frzodiacheaders.jpg

https://s26.postimg.org/6zpu7262h/0317frzodiacbadge.jpg

https://s26.postimg.org/6qwuuvint/0317frzodiacmayshead.jpg

If necessary, copy and paste to a window.

by **bce257** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 9:19 am

Rod, that fuel system looks like a fire hazard! SU fuel pump over by the steering column feeding all the way round the firewall to some manifold thing on the other side. Those mufflers are something else altogether. Great pics.

Ray, the pics didn't come through on my screen.

Steve, some pics here https://www.flickr.com/gp/57330657@N05/i98RH4

by **Steve Holmes** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 3:31 am

bce257 wrote:Thanks Steve. I've had it on the Mk2 wagon for about six months now, initially with two H6 carbs,
[ATTACH=CONFIG]42403[/ATTACH]

now with lots more

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Wow thats awesome! Can we see pics of the car?

by **Ray Bell** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 3:19 am

A nice pair of Zodiacs...

Both have an American option between the engine and the final drive, the sedan has a DG while the auto has the other type of Borg-Warner componentry offered on the Z-cars:

The sedan has these headers in place of the usual log...

...while the convertible has this:

And it's now got this:

Which should go very will with that 0.7:1 overdrive.

by **Rod Grimwood** » Thu Mar 09, 2017 7:50 pm

This one haunted the North Shore way back, was a very quick car and the local cop loved it, mainly because he could hear it coming from Milford and he was at top of Forrest Hill.
PS it was very quick because it was red.

by **bce257** » Thu Mar 09, 2017 9:55 am

Thanks guys, enjoying the thread.

The Roaring Season

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