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Looks great!

I think you might be able to swap the steering column stalks. Certainly possible on early models: rotate the upper outer column 180 degrees. You might have issues with indicators self-cancelling, and the plastic shroud, but you've got the skills to deal with that :-) Also nice to get a long-term perspective on the resto - thanks!

Great honest finale .. Good luck with next project, looking forward to videos... But what will the channel be called? Not brit spit😢😊

Have to say I really enjoy listening to you. It's refreshing to hear a down to earth honest presentation.

....really enjoyed watching your channel. Looking forward to what happens next.

Buy a 1500 hardtop, I think they look good and make the car much more winter friendly, then see what you think. I don't think they are very dear....

I also have enjoyed watching every one of your videos and following your journey. I well understand your need for more garage space, and have admired your tenacity in getting so far with relatively so little. Best wishes for your house hunting and I look forward to the next episode of your journey. Thank you for sharing your time with us. Kind regards, Robert

Thanks for the update! Your videos have been so valuable in my own amateur restoration, and with the time and effort I’ve put in so far I couldn’t imagine selling my Spit. But a dolomite would be pretty cool…

It's a classic "fun" car. No frills. No whiz- bang electronics or digital features... No seatbelt alarms..no key fob... I wish I had one! It's beautiful!

Its an absolutely gorgeous car. One of my very favourites.

i am looking at your review, and i appreciate your down to earth common sense. I am in the process of buying a 1976 and seeing this seals the deal. Thank you

Beautiful sheetmetal work!

I'm going to look at one this morning. Great video. Cheers...all the best.

Man I love your video. From Mississippi in the United States. I’m a southern man who loves British cars and your video is remarkable. Thank you for taking the time to produce it.

The factory steels look great on a spitfire. mgs are just wrong and will always look naff

New subscriber here from the US. My son and I are on the hunt for a 1968 Spitfire and are in the process of purchasing one.I have been watching a lot of your videos and really appreciate the work you have done and while I prefer the looks of the original Spitfire, I really appreciate and respect your desire and work done to customize your car to your liking. It really does look cool, I like what you've done with it and like you said, it's your car, who cares what other people think! Keep up the good work and keep the videos coming! Cheers!

Just checking on the afr still working fine. Lookin to do the same but keep reading reviews of them failing quite quickly

Wtf 2013

A lovely example you have here. I'm seriously thinking of getting a Spitfire. I'm here getting some info on such things, wondering what model/age I should get.

Tiny car,sitting on floor,ran good,shifted wonderfull,looked great,wound tight and screaming at 55mph.Owned one for years.

The extra bonnet braces you mentioned were missing, were only on North American cars and only from 1977 onwards. So, yours are not “missing.”

Hi I have a spitfire 1300 want to put alloys on, how wide can you go? is 7" too wide? cheers

I owned one for 29 years. Literally rebuilt the engine on top of my work bench. I had the head rebuilt with hardened valve seats for unleaded fuel. They called it a 1500, however it was actually 1493 cc. The biggest improvement I made was replacing the stock Zenith carb. with a Weber side draft. Another improvement was replacing the breaker point ignition with an electronic unit. The reliability was vastly improved. Fun little car that got thumbs up all the time.

What size are the alloy wheel tyres? Any issues with rubbing etc?

Splendid job, noticed the Norgi, are you ex Mob?

Love your bonnet. Reminiscent of Michelotti's Ferrari 330GT. (Better without the grille). Also love that retaining strap - your best idea!

i may just do the same thing. next vid lets see how she is under hot conditions out on the road. hard acceleration, moderate acceleration and constant cruising 60mph.

Great video. Nice car too! Just found your channel so I will be interested to see how it helps with tuning and monitoring. I like the idea and may well fit one to my '74 Viva HC. I like the idea of knowing what the actual figures are. The old school ways have always felt like guessing to me as someone who also doesn't really know what to listen/feel for 👍🏻

Another nice worry gauge, but you need to sort out the wiring with grommets and cable tidies before you have a charred wreck.

I have a Vitesse and the stocimetric ratio is 14.7:1, what I find fascinating is the the ideal distance from the centre of the bore to the lips of my triple Weber Carburettor trumpets is 14.7 inches! Because my Webers need high volume and low pressure fuel supply, and I have Facet electric pumps, I have installed a digital fuel pressure gauge, it is much better than any of the old analogue gauges I have found, because it reads out in large red numbers, and the old gauges with needles are all made for much higher pressures than my system experiences - to keep my car looking original I have hung the digital gauge under the dashboard

Hi, thanks for the video. I have my AFR gauge and am about to install it. Will you be doing a follow up video on the ensuing carb tune and testing so we see the results of tuning on the gauge?

i put a usb socket with a digital voltmeter readout in mine that's the size of a 12v cigar lighter. You could put one of them in between the two gauges and use the original voltmeter hole for the afr? thanks for vid - i'm considering an AFR :)

Love the gauge if you can save fuel it should pay for itself,but please when you get time sort the bolts out on the horn push ? 😮

Interesting,but too much for me colour tune is perfect and (relatively) cheaper. Thanks for the video like your approach to solving the numerous issues with classics.

all my spitfires are fitted with cardboard deflectors to ensure sufficient cold air. they are there for a purpose. as is the original air filter cover with th hoses ensuring cold air flow to the carbs.

Great job

Why did you park the car in your closet?

i-Outstanding , I like the way you explained it

Yes

It might be interesting to know that on a traditional Mini 998cc the inlet and exhaust manifolds were cast together as a single lump. Obviously they did not consider inlet heat to be a problem. Probably heating of the carb itself could be more of an issue which is why the spacer blocks were usually plastic

don't worry about the manfold getting warm. on single manifolds on spitires and heralds triumph found that the manifolds would get wet inside. fuel droplets from SU and stromberg carbs are larger than in carbs such as webber. the wetting issue wasn't the case with twin carb manifolds only singe ones. so triumph put the coolant tube in as it helped warm the manifold up earlier during cold start. this prevented inlet runner wetting and benefited in a better mixture for the engine. getting so hot you can't touch it, is not good imo.... but warm to touch is just right. in north america we have a much worse pathetic single inlet manifold and they get warm to touch as well. the carb should be cold and some use bakelite spacers to isolate heat. but you mention your carburetor is cold - so good to go. on mine i have a new rebuilt HS6, modified for non angled mounting. but i have never run it on my spitfire. you can after a bit more driving check sparkplugs for colour. i found a good tuning tool is something called colortune. which of course i lost mine.

Leave the heat wrap on, even if the intake is touching it in a few spots! If you grind more intake material off, slide a thin piece of metal shielding over top of the wrap, not touching the intake. That's the best you can do.

I love that you’re not afraid of experimenting, and doing what you want to do rather than what others think you should do. All the British phrases along the way are just icing on the cake!

The exhaust wrap works great but stinks when you run the engine and it drys out! I done a few motorcycles with it. It works great! I am planning on doing the same to my Spitfire!

Great video, very informative.

Booster Hose is not the same as a Heater Hose , the vacuum will suck a Heater Hose Flat

My 1st car was a 1964 in 1966 triumph spitfire. Handled very well and was slow. it was the pale yellow with black interior. they had, later, a metalic yellow later, I didn't like it. And it was a lot of fun to drive compared to american cars. But after awhile I totaled it, which didn't take much and went with a 1960 PV 544, the best all around car I ever had.

4 years rebulding mine... I will never get my money (working hours) back but I don´t care it was a big lesson learn, rebuilding this spit was acknowledg a bit of car history - ua-cam.com/video/gfX-tX69zww/v-deo.html - thanks for your videos, keep the good work!!!

Yes, for a few minutes the water heats the manifold. Here in Canada, when it's-40C its necessary on highway trips to keep ice from forming inside the intake. BUT for driving in England I doubt you'll need that. It's just my opinion, but I think the close contact between intake and exhaust will really heat the intake. It is known that a cool intake is better than a hot one as far as combustion efficiency is concerned.

I know this is an old clip, but if you're still reading comments I thought I'd say something about that dampness you felt at the top hose. That temp switch sensor tube is not supposed to go under the rubber hose, there is no way it will seal up ( unless you put some silicone around the tube where it enters the rubber??) and the tube might get crushed....the sensor is just supposed to lay on top of the hose. Wrap it on with metal foil. Yes, it won't get as hot as when it's inside the hose, just turn the activation temp lower. Oh ya, there is no mercury in the sensor it's just air pressure.