daveroberts

17 May 2012 at 16:20 #49121

Julian,
i must point out that the 2.4 Blown car is owned by Simon Carrel, a non- member of the Lagonda Club. i restored the car, and maintain it in the UK for him. Not a lot of people know that.
I have been running it for two years with an alternator , hiding inside a 2 litre dynamo casing. Never a flat battery any more!
Dave

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daveroberts

12 April 2012 at 20:03 #48917

A bit late but here is the nose piece on a blown @ litre

daveroberts

29 June 2011 at 21:23 #48328

Hi Peter,
The offside running board on my ST34 does indeed bend downwards.
However the nearside one is bent upwards, as in Arnold’s book.The photo apparently showing the nearside of the car has been reversed by my clumsy uploading technique. The downward bend is due to a severe attack of the same woodworm that killed the bodywork, and my 15 stone standing on it. A closer look at the reversed photo will show an incorrect LHD steering wheel position and the drag link. Easy mistake . A number plate in position would have helped.

Dave

daveroberts

24 June 2011 at 21:18 #48314

Hi Colin,

The remains of my M45 ST34 with helmet front wings, as requested.

Regards…….Dave

daveroberts

24 June 2011 at 13:08 #48313

Hi Colin,
I have had trouble compressing the photo files down to less than 200 Kb to upload to the forum, so I have sent then to you to forward if you have the knack. Please forgive the shot showing it as LHD!
However, you can see the louvred panel below the scuttle not present on long wing cars. as you can see, there was not a lot of the original body, merely the scuttle and the base framework bolted to the chassis with numerous outriggers.

I was restoring a low chassis 2 litre at the time and I needed somewhere to park the body whilst the chassis was being worked on, and was most surprised that it fitted the Z chassis when placed on top. The extra 9″ of wheelbase on the Z chassis is found in the bonnet length.

Dave

daveroberts

21 June 2011 at 11:35 #48312

Hi Colin,

details of my M45 are as follows :-

Reg No . VJ 6739
Type M45. ST34
Engine No. 2893
Car no. Z11143

I have several photo’s of the car whenI acquired it some years ago. They clearly show the helmet front wings, mounted on the backplates and the ski style of running board, also present on a ST24. Unfortunately time, woodworm. and accident damage had reduced the pillarless bodywork to the scuttle and bonnet.

i prefer wind in what is left of my hair motoring, so I have built a T2 body minus the side skirts. It will look like Geoff Seatons wonderful 3 litre tourer when finished. Yes, it yet another bloody tourer. However, I do have a saloon body within reach, that I could fit to the chassis now and again to keep the purists happy. I see in Holthausen’s tome on the 4 i/2 litre , illustrations of ST24 and ST34, and apparentlySTt34 cars were available with the short or helmet or cycle wing to special order.
Maybe my car is, or was a rarity.

I will scan the photos shortly when i have worked out how to on my new scanner. Hope this helps.

Regards………Dave.

daveroberts

18 June 2011 at 19:44 #48309

Barry,

My 1935 M45 ST34 pillarless saloon is fitted with cycle front mudguards, supported by the flange on the backplate, and a second flange on a boss near the king pin. Hope this helps.

Regards…….Dave.

daveroberts

18 June 2011 at 19:23 #48307

Hi Julian,
I have completed the 2.4 litre blown engine, started by the late Peter Whenman, installed in a low chassis 2 litre. A Marshall cabin blower was modified to a supercharger and fitted between the front dumb irons similar to my MG J3 and the Blower Bentleys. I made new camshafts with the Ridout profile and fitted a gasflowed downdraft head, and a sensible exhaust header.A Borg and Beck clutch and an Alvis box complete the non-original mods, and all the original stuff is boxed if any future owner wishes to return it to the original , whatever that means precisely.
It does look a bit odd with the dynamo mounted vertically at the front of the engine where the blower should be. Use of the starting handle dog would require a hole through the header tank and the bonnet!
I have achieved on Stanton Motorsport’s Dyno at Membury,
147 bhp at 4650 rpm and 187 Ftlb torque at 3510 rpm.
It climbs steep hills and will crawl along at 20 mph in top gear.
0 to 60 mph is about 12 seconds . Overtaking is a joy, as is high speed cruising at the legal limit .
I had a 16/80 in 1963, and drove it with three friends to Italy, a trip of 3000 miles. As my previous car was a 1924 a chummy, the performance was impressive. I now have another and although everything is as it should be in the engine dept. , I find it tiresome to drive with little low end torque , and you have to keep the revs up to get anywhere. It has a lovely Wilson box,that compensates for the lack of power during acceleration.I have learnt a lot from Steve Stanton with his vast experience of 2 litre Bristol engines, and applied this info to a new 16/80 engine I am building for the car.
Once again Lagonda failed to understand gasflowing, with two carbs supplying mixture to the valves through 3 90 degree bends.one bend even has a 5/16 bolt through the middle of the port!
My Alvis Silver Eagle has three Su’s and that runs fine in all conditions and I am fitting a similar set to the 16/ 80.
The original 16/80 engine will be retained in “original condition” for the purists.
I would be interested in the performance figures of the 16/80 project,and what other mods you have done internally, especially to the lubrication system.
Regards……..Dave