850 Project SEAT

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Personally I prefer points and condensor, a lot easier to fix at the side of the road and much cheaper.
Condensors and point if good quality generally only fail if ignition left on whilst testing something else and they overheat if points closed. A little high melting point grease on the heel of the fibre that touches the distributor cam, apart from that new points a each 6000mile service worked for my customers in the past.
If electronic ignition fails which it can do, then it is a wait for a transporter home at great cost. Even if no new parts on hand I have got many cars going by simply cleaning the points, regapping them and if condensor faulty the trick was to move the radio suppressor/capacitor from the switch side SW of the coil to the CB/distributor side and it acts as a condensor to get you home, you may need to leave original condensor disconnected but at least you are mobile.
Always handy to keep a spare new set of points and condensor in car, coils less likely in my experience.
Never used an electric car heater, does dynamo cope?

Seems to cope there is only a very small current drop from this setup , I started small initially as just a way to demist the screen so early days yet for full testing but will update as I can.

 

[Volatileticker]

One thing to note on those electric heaters, make sure the plastic can take it…I fitted one to our Polaris diesel UTV (due to the factory fit system never bleeding the cooling system properly, as the pipes were like spaghetti junction going up down and all over the place)…I bought a decent 400w heater but the existing heater box, made by Polaris chocolate branch, went very soft very quickly

I’ll keep an eye on it cheers.

 

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fitted an electric fuel pump this week. makes for much better starting now .

 

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Ifs been a little while since my last post and i’ve done a bit of. Firstly i have fitted a radio.
I didn’t want a full fin radio on show and there is nowhere to hide one so i modified one of my spare ashtrays. And then fitted speakers to the rear seat side cards and perforated the leather covers.

 

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So I had a vision and idea when I first got the bean, And now I have been able to further the plan.

 

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Couple of trips out this month. First. Proper run to Brooklands for Italia day. No issuea]s other than a slight temperature increase as we were queuing to enter. Was able to bring it back down by increasing the revs a bit.
And secondly down to Goodwood for the Retrorides weekender. Again no issues and…… braved the A3 and took a blast through the Hindhead Tunnel.
A constant cruise home of 60mph following the wife in her wagon. So a positive few outings.