V8 Column for October 2005
Members are encouraged to attend the Club's AGM due to be held at the Motor Heritage Museum at Gaydon on Saturday 15th October 2005 starting at 4.00pm sharp. It will be an opportunity for Club members to contribute to the discussion of the New Club Office scheme the Directors have recommended to Club Council members and express their views. Also a substantial number of the ten posts on the Executive Committee will be up for election at the AGM. Unfortunately you will you not be able to see a formal vote on the scheme because the formal consideration of those proposals will be made at the Council meeting held earlier in the day attended by representatives of each Centre, Register and Branch of the Club. At that Council meeting it is likely a motion will be tabled for the formal approval of the Directors' New Club Office scheme and the grant of authorities to the Directors to proceed and enter into all necessary contractual and financing commitments to implement and complete the scheme. If their scheme is approved by the Council Voting Members, then it is likely that fact will be included in the reports made by the Club officers at the AGM later that day.

You can make your own review and assessment of the Directors' scheme by downloading the information pack documents from the Club's website - a 34 page report from the Directors and a mass of appendices. Full details of the analysis of the information provided by the Directors and an appraisal report will be available on the V8 Website together with V8 members' views posted on the V8BB. Your views do matter and the V8 Committee need to be fully informed as to your concerns and views on whether you feel the size and cost of this scheme is justified and would wish to see it go ahead.

A batch of new workshop notes is due for publication shortly including a couple of RV8NOTES from Peter Garton on fitting power assisted steering to his RV8 and another on solving a Bosche starter motor problem. Gordon

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Hesketh-Jones has been active with a comprehensive V8NOTE336 on solving V8 brake problems and the earlier V8NOTE328 from Barrie Franklin has now been amended with additional information provided by Gordon. The key portion of that note with the update is reproduced below.

Misfire solved on an MGBGTV8 (V8NOTE328 update)
Barrie Franklin had a long talk with Gordon Hesketh-Jones at Silverstone as his V8 had a misfire that sounded very similar. Subsequently he worked through V8NOTE328 and decided to fit a pressure reducing valve too. He uncovered more information which he emailed me and suggested it was published as an addition to the note. After having the carburettors rebuilt by Carburettor Exchange of Leighton Buzzard, Barrie eventually booked the car in for a rolling road investigation at Wilshire Garage at Wimpole near Cambridge. The problem was soon identified - the petrol pump was supplying fuel at 5psi measured between the filter and the carburettors whereas Wilshire explained it ought to be 2.0 to 2.5psi. A pressure adjusting valve was fitted, set at 2psi and the timing and carburettors adjusted slightly. Result - problem solved! In fact the car is now running far better than any time in my nine years of ownership. It was also a very interesting experience "driving" on a rolling road doing 100mph on the clock and going nowhere!

Gordon Hesketh-Jones adds "the recommended pressure relief valve for our cars is made by Glencoe Ltd, tel 01784 493555 who have a nationwide list of distributors - see their website at www.fuelsystem.co.uk. The part number is PR 053, the unit is called an "adjustable flow meter" and the fuel pressure can be varied from 0.5 up to 5psi. I understand that if the petrol pump is delivering at more than 3psi it lifts the needles off the seats leading to the misfire. The unit can easily be made secure by using cable ties to attach it to the brake pipes or similar static points".