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Hi

Welcome to the forum.

What is the kit car?

Photos would be good.

Peter

Hi all.

I'm Peter from Southampton, Hants. I don't have a Beta, sadly, but I do have a kit car that has numerous Beta parts that I may need a bit of help with. It's the rear brakes right now from some ten years or so of having been laid up. I'm going to have a thorough poke around that section of the Forum to see what I can find.

All the best to everybody.

Hello, all, especially Nigel, John and HFStuart, and your moderator / admin person who kindly admitted me to your forum. 

I finally had my DATA 34 jetted and tuned and now it’s working a treat. 

Both the idles and primaries were replaced with bigger items, as suits my particular cam profile etc.

If anyone needs to know the exact specs, please email me on alastair.watson1463@gmail.com (I won’t post them here, seeing it’s a Lancia forum and my 128’s specs are fairly individual). 

The big one for me - the main reason I sought your collective advice - was to locate the missing-in-action mixture screw, which the Weber specialist mechanic showed me on the passenger side* of the carby, at the rear.   It wasn’t capped; the screw was just well hidden. 

The location is probably best shown in the attached photos, with the screw having been indicated in the close pic with the pointer.

I hope this may be of assistance to someone, at sometime, on this forum.

Thanks again for your generous assistance.

Cheers,

Alastair

*I’m Australian; we drive on the same side of the road as you do in the UK.

Hi, Andrew. 

Thanks for your reply. 

I’ve found out about the DATA now, so I’ll share that somewhere else on the fire, just in case it’s useful for anyone else. 

Cheers,

Alastair.

Does anyone want a Beta manual? I can pass it over at either LMC Weekend, Betameeta or LMC Track Day.

It was given to me at GNW 23. The Coupe was parked outside the Jim Clark Museum in Duns and the guy took the trouble to keep an eye on the car and come out as I was leaving. He'd owned several betas in the past and hoped to pass it on to a new home. On coming back I put it on the bookshelf and forgot about it.....

Free. First come first served.

This week I've mostly been trying to recondition the fuel tank. It has not gone entirely to plan. I settled on the POR15 kit, a degreaser, etch solution and a liner paint.

The degrease process started with an initial clean using a pint of degreaser mixed with a pint of hot water, tank shaken for a while (good workout) and was then allowed to sit for an hour on each side, seven in total as the bottom has a sloped edge. Contents dumped into a bucket were negligible, I assume the two pint mixture got absorbed into the goop in the bottom of the tank. The flushed out material was horrible. Repeat the process and not nearly as much got absorbed and the flush was a lot cleaner but an internal inspection revealed that there was still evidence of crap in the tank. So today I went to Frosts in Warrington and bought another 2 pints. Came home, put it in the garage with the tank and came inside for a coffee before getting changed (this stuff is corrosive to skin) and put two pints of water in the garage kettle and emptied the contents of the bottle into the kettle and then into the tank, shook it around again, noticed a rattle that hadn't been there before and left it to sit for an hour before the next rotation. It was at that point I noticed the full bottle of degreaser in the garage and realised I'd mixed the etch solution with water and poured it in. Well, you're not supposed to do that. I think the etch solution shouldn't be mixed with water but hey ho, it got poured out and the correct degreaser solution put back in for another seven hours of treatment. What came out was much much cleaner so I'm happy to take the next step and fill it with the etch solution and then paint. But now I've got to go back to Frosts to buy another £25 bottle and have lost another day. Hey ho.

And the rattle? That was one of the two fill pipes going into the swirl pot in the bottom of the tank where the pick up pipe filter is. That's going to take some thought as to how to drop it back in place and secure through a 2 inch hole.... I think I might need a really long pair of needle nose pliers. And a beer or two after it's done this weekend.

I wish they put the solutions into different coloured containers but no, they're all white with different coloured labels.

Guy

FYI, this is the event I am suggesting going to Sunday lunchtime after a short drive in the morning.

Peter

Hi Tony

I guessed you would be going there, hope you have a good day and the weather is kind for both of us.

Peter

Sorry I'll not be able to make this years Betameeta   I'll be at Brands Hatch covering Festival Italia for Auto Italia.
Have a great weekend everyone, and take lots of pics 

Hi

Visited the car end of last week with Nigel.

Work has been going well and John commented that Dale should have the welding finished during July, we will wait and see, but hopefully near to finishing at least.

Currently on with the rear wheelarch/turrets which are a mess as the photos show, but will look well when finished.

Peter