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Played with the Bristol Today, wiring diagram shows 2 ballast resistors 1 at 0.5 Ohms AND 1 AT 5 Ohms, checked both. the 0.5 ohm had been shorted out with a piec of thick wire and showed 0.1 ohms the 5 Ohm reads 2.4 ohms. Found a spare 5 ohm and replaced that one , removed the shorting wire on the o...

I have been asked to look at a friends Bristol 411 which I believe runs a chrysler V8 with electronic ignition, he broke down last saturday and the AA Man told him the coil was knackered as it was way too hot. Since then he has swapped the coil with another one (not sure how old or what condition bu...

JSF55 wrote:Hi, there's a lot of info here
http://www.nsra.org.uk/newforum/showthr ... =importing
i have no knowledge of this myself, but there's a few on the nsra and rods and sods that have done it, john

Thamks I will pass it on

A friend of mine has just imported an American built 33 plymouth coupe hot rod, big V8 open wheels etc etc, he would prefer to avoid an SVA test for obviuos reasons, what documents will he need to supply to the DVLA in order to get an age related plate? or is he doomed to put the car through an SVA ...

Thanks to all
This is just the sort of info I was looking for, I will pass the info on.

Keith

I have a friend who owns a rod with a 4.6 ltr race tuned RV8 Circa 300 BHP(cross bolted block 300 degree cam etc etc) He didn't build the car but believes it has a Borg Warner auto box in it which he has had rebuilt. I know nothing about auto box's but apparently if he stands on the loud pedal hard ...