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Chillidoggy last won the day on September 8 2020
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4,342 ExcellentAbout Chillidoggy

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- Birthday 29/10/1958
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Name
Ian Lord
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Car
Esprit S4s
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Location
Margate, UK.
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Should I keep it like this?
Chillidoggy replied to red vtec's topic in Esprit 'Project & Restoration' Room
If you want to keep the bare alloy looking good, then vapour blasting will help a lot. It seems to leave a finish that dirt and oil slide off, at least on my engine, anyway. -
I bet he’ll be a real hoot on the after-dinner speech circuit. He’s had enough practice at stand-up.
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Wait, you mean that BBC thing wasn’t fake?
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Something to do with him doing care work or similar. I do feel he should have turned the other cheek.
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During the first lockdown, they supplied me a set of 910 main bearing shells. Would I use them again, yes, absolutely, they’ve got a good rep and have been around a looooong time.
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I see the Archbishop of Canterbury (aged 65) has jumped the vaccination queue.
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I think that's how Max Mosely got started.....
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S4s rolling restoration project
Chillidoggy replied to tomcattom's topic in Esprit 'Project & Restoration' Room
I might have a set of the composites laying around of you haven’t got any, need to check first, though. -
S4s rolling restoration project
Chillidoggy replied to tomcattom's topic in Esprit 'Project & Restoration' Room
Looking at the photos, I think the exhaust port faces will benefit from being machined. It looks even worse than mine and there’s only so much those gaskets will accept. I do hope I’m proved wrong, however it’ll then leave you free to overhaul the rest of the head...... -
Don't forget you have @Buddsy
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S4s rolling restoration project
Chillidoggy replied to tomcattom's topic in Esprit 'Project & Restoration' Room
@tomcattom - Page 5 of my refurb thread gives you the heat shield photos. I think there's more somewhere in there too if you look. Shouldn't take too long, there's nowhere near 256 pages. -
S4s rolling restoration project
Chillidoggy replied to tomcattom's topic in Esprit 'Project & Restoration' Room
It's comforting to note you're not using just any old rags. -
My new aquistion a Ginetta G27 and shipment to Australia
Chillidoggy replied to au-yt's topic in Lotus / Motoring / Cars Chat
Pretty sure I drove a G27 years ago, and thought it was a nice car. I was after buying a Cosworth-engined G12 years ago, but two things prevented me from doing so. 1. I couldn't quite afford it, and 2. I couldn't fit in it. -
You need to get out more.
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The steel shim gaskets are the Lotus specified for the S4s. I think the composite ones were for earlier engines, but I’m not sure. Alunox supplied me with a set of composites when I bought my exhaust manifold, but when I pointed out they were incorrect, they refused to exchange them for the steel ones. Hey ho!