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    If you want bigger the you can fit T2000 calipers to type 14 mounts, and use a Vitessse disc I think. The car I had used (dangerously) modified 2000 discs.
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    With your age of car you do not actually need to display the VIN number, but it is so much easier to avoid any hassle at the MOT station, so all I did was scratch the number on a bit of alloy plate and rivit it to the bulkhead. Don't screw it, as screws are easier to use if faking an identity rather than the box of pop rivets on the shelf apparently.
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    The go on the radiator bracket on four cylinder cars, and bonnet on sixes I am sure.
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    Why not buy the alloy ones and spray them rusty coloured?
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    I think is probably more a case that the cars have been too "cheap" to warrant spending money on getting noisy layshafts sorted. I have 3 out of 4 gearboxes making a noise at idle. The one that doesn't was rebuilt about 10k ago
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    I have fitted new rubbers (strips of cut up inner tube) and then used a rubber mallet to hammmer the metal strip back on.
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    You could buy alloy ones from Canleys, sit down before ringing.
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    If some of the new hoses I have seen are anything to go by I would expect them to last 10 times as long. I have had a few hoses not last a year.
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    It was my car, but I have sold it, and the new owner has been forced to put it into daily service following a wheel bearing failure on his daily drIver Mk3 Spitfire. The 2000 was my steed for the night. Finally fixed the misfire that plagued us in the RBRR it seems so was out enjoying it.
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    It is feasilble to fit Spitfire catches to a Herald.
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    They were much harder to foul on 2 of my PI equipped cars, though I did eventually succeed. And then they cleaned up easily and worked again.
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    https://www.canleyclassics.com/triumph-gt6-mki/ii-hydraulic-pipes can you work it out from the picture?
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    It is up out the top, 270 degree bend to the L shaped bracket. The flexihose to the outer side of the opposing wishbone, then solid to T Piece.
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    I think the biggest risk is other people's ideas of how you might be driving a 50yr old car sometimes. yes my brakes really are as good as yours and yes I can accelerate faster than a push bike..........
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    Have you got the looped solid pipes attached yet?
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    6 is usual, 5 is a hotter one. I use 5 in my PI equipped cars as they seem less likely to foul. Well I did until I,was pointed at the 3-prong Bosch ones.
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    Talk to a company called CARS near Bury st Edmunds. https://www.carseurope.net/contact-us/
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    That is not a TR6 wheel, looks like an aftermarket one to me. Similar to the dealer fit wood rim version. Original Spit4 is same as Herald 1200 I think. That one is much nicer An 1147 FC engine should be easier to source than an FD Mk3 engine.
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    Looks like it has had a bit of tidying up. much closer to original spec now?
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    Fill the boot with bags of sand or gravel or similar and go for a long and hopefully undulating drive. that will soon settle out
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    Referring to ShaunW comments about the sun visors, they were optional extra on early Spitfires, so that can not be required. My Mk3 has never had any.
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    Best by far are the Cibie ones, now no ta so cheap. i purchased a set of the Bad Boy Classics ones for another of the cars, for the price not bad value at all. buy the set that's is best value for money, as prices varies for different cars, but same items
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    Canleys list a top tint for a GT6
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    You can just order a top tint windscreen, I have one fitted to my Mk4 you can also get full tint, butt it isn't quite the same colour as a Syndym one.
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    I was always told Momentum was a rebranded product from Greenergy who are down near Dartford. It gets its octane from use of ethanol and similar. All petrol come from just a couple of places, the companies just add their own additives afterwards. Most of the fuel in the South East comes from Shell Haven on the Thames, you see all the different tankers coming and going.
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