Scottish Elises

It will be nice for someone to find a low mileage preserved car, shame not to use 'as intended' but maybe he's a crap driver and realises he'd be in a hedge backwards if 'used as intended'!

That's a good shout, I hadn't thought of doing Street view.

Yep the idea is to drive in, stay over and get a good coastal hike in 'enroute' to heading up north.

I'm curious if anyone has driven this road and knows what it's like, surface wise etc for taking a low clearance car such as a lotus?!

This is the thread where the author of that book is involved in the discussions regarding regrinding camshafts for the GTA engine https://www.alfaowner.com/Forum/alfa-gta/539873-jim-k-gta-performance-camshafts-group-buy.html I think a 10mm inlet cam was initially trialled then followed by a 10.3mm i...

Yours is the 'Bussone' 3.2 litre engine though no? Does that chart not show comparisons of the different cam profiles for the 3 litre Busso? This book could be of interest: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=m61X0ZCo6EoC&lpg=PP1&dq=Alfa+V6+performance&pg=PP1&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false (Chapter 15 Ca...

Have you spoken to any of the Alfa experts like Dan at Autolusso in the Lakes branch? Super knowledgeable chap about the GTA engine and tuning options.

This looks to be an awesome event and after a 2 year ban Mull rally excitement is building up to fever pitch for this coming weekend.
Any SE'ers heading up? If so maybe see you there

Yaaas that's what we need, pops and bangs and flames

So another small update for anyone still awake. Apparently my oil leak wasn't really anything significant and LB sorted it. Oil was dribbling down a threaded plug in the cylinder head when the engine was running but because it was behind the cam wheels it wasn't obvious where it was coming from on ...

Welcome Stu, that looks mean in Nautilus Blue and with that stance on the Nitrons.
Yep it's good to have a car that you can use and enjoy and not be too precious about, good choice
Servicing wise I really rate Dreadnought garage in Callander but that's a trek for you perhaps.

Okay thanks for the feedback Duggie, good to hear it's a worthwhile trip. I'm probably going to be tight with time so getting my car on the stand might be difficult though worth giving Jim a heads up to see if I can turn up for some of the day.

This is on in a couple of weekends time on 31 August and 1 September. I've never been, is it a worthwhile day out? Looks like a good mix of cars from many eras, some footage makes the track look a little tight and slow though. Wondered what opinions are on the event?

Doune hill climb on today, I use to go here when I was a kid, some interesting cars from a big rage of classes go flying up the hill. I'm going to check it out for sure

https://www.dounehillclimb.co.uk/

Did it autumn 2017. Traffic was ok. Like Campbell I'll stick to west and NW, maybe clockwise as far as tongue next time then straight south . That will be the SJ500 starting Glasgow west end and up to Fort Bill That's what I did as a route with my brother last year early summer on the advice of the...

Yes I've used them in the past and the tyres did arrive tho took a while. Not the best at keeping you informed but it's a genuine site so all should be good