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your car looks great Neil, a real credit to you.

I would say the three combined are about the same as the old Bell sports system in terms of noise. But I do much prefer the neater look. I never liked the way the Bell barrow handles stuck out so far behind the rear end.

Finally got the Weber carb to perform and took the old girl out for her first drive since 1997!

Thanks Pete and Neil, much appreciated. I am close to that set up Pete just need to order up some new air jets..

Hi Neil, when you say the Weber is “adjusted to the recommended settings”. Would you mind to share the settings please? Mine is driving me nuts trying to get it to run well!

Made a little more progress, nearly got the interior back in.

Thanks John a couple more snaps:

IMG_5312.MOV Got it running! First time since 1998…

Found these in the glove box, made me laugh a little…

So not quite as plug and play as I would have wanted but all done now. The later pedal needs new holes drilling in the bulkhead just off to the right and requires a little bend in the shaft. The wiper motet base plate needed a little fettle to allow the cable to go through perpendicular to the bulkhead and then the throttle linkage can fitted, simples.

No, you will have to make a small modification to the base plate:

I am the process of doing the very same. I have drilled new holes in the bulkhead, simples.

Thanks Josef and Peter, much appreciated. I have a cable type pedal unit on the way to me and will try to fit it up as you did Peter. Then I have been looking at an LP1000 linkage system on carparts.eu to join to carb. Thanks again.

I have got to the point of linking up the Weber DCOE 40 carb to the mk1 linkage. I am a bit stuck on how best or easiest to do it. I have read that I should convert to cable operating? Can I just fit a pedal unit from a 1500? Will the cable fit through the bulkhead with the early spitfire wiper motor? Then where do I go for the cable to carb bit? Help please..

Yes it is just an alloy rear diff casing on the normal unit. I was hoping with the three silencer units it would not be too loud, fingers crossed…I am a couple of weeks away from starting it but will take some cine film when I do, pardon.