More Stag news

The Stag is safely back from Faversham Classics having had its second head torque and oil change following clocking up over 1000 miles on its new engine. According to the engine builder, Trevor, I am now allowed to extend the engine rev's gradually above the previous 3000 limit. I can now report that this engine is very sweet and smooth at 4500! and accelerates very nicely. Really need to get on a rolling road to see what its really putting out!

One adverse effect is that the new engine seems to have found the weaknesses in the silencers, I knew they were a bit marginal at the last MOT and had to have some welding up, well now they will definitely need replacing before the next one!

At long last I have taken the RBRR stickers off the Spitfire and have been using that car a bit, it seems to have developed a few new rattles since the RBRR so some light winter restoration is needed. Still runs well though there seems to be a constant smell of fuel coming from somewhere, the top of the float chambers seem to slightly wet with fuel so will start the investigation there.

That probably explains the comment from my Co Driver Grahams wife when we returned from the RBRR that we stank of petrol, I thought at the time it was because I spilt some fuel over the rear deck at The Plough when topping up the tank from the fuel cans that were carried unused for over 2000 miles- clearly not the case!