Yet another car question

It's not that I deliberately chronicled my life by photographs its just I
(and my friends) always seemed to have a camera. Importantly, I suppose,
I've kept the pictures and know where they are.

Either that or I'm a low rent Zelig.

On my Eastern European travels a camera was part of the satchel equipment
along with fags, passport, a pen and rail maps.

Sometimes I wish I took more pictures of the infrastructure rather than
us larking about. Although that wouldn't have been in keeping as there
was no higher purpose to the trips; just being 20ish, sex and cheap beer.

 

It'll cost extra.

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| ___ Salad Dodger
|/ \
_/_____\_ GL1500SEV/CBR1100XXX/KH500A8/TS250C
|_\_____/_| ..73063../..17250.../..3180./.19406
(>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 YTC#4 PM#5
|__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 two#11 WG*
\ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4
\|^|/ ANORAK#17 IbB#4
'^'

 

This _might_ be similar..

url:http://www.chez.com/desmondcoughlan/tmp/dodge.jpg

 

1p a letter.

 

Yes, to an extent.

All true, except that here it goes beyond that. People are happy to
recommend something inappropriate; the (potentially, but not actually)
humorous cry of "Gixer Thou" when anyone asks a bike question, is
borne of the reality of Alan Gower (as then was) seriously
recommending it to all and sundry every single fucking day.

And people are blind: Ginge's assessment of his not-terribly-powerful,
front-wheel drive small family hatchback from a second-rate motor
manufacturer is different from what I just wrote; Bear's opinion that
his Mazda 323 was very fast is clearly contrary to the 150bhp it
barely made; and, lest we forget SteveH's description of his Nissan
Primera (ffs) as a "devastatingly quick cross-country missile" (or
whatever).

 

The engine designed by Shoichiro Irimajiri

Oh no they're not.[1]

Oh yes they have.[1]
CBX 750 F




[1] Trying to get into the festive spirit.

 

Oh yes I did. (Festive).

It used the frame and because owners never flushed it out properly
sludge would cause oil starvation to the main gallery causing premature
big end failure.

The 750 4 with the oil in the frame was called the CBX

 

At a Billy Connolly show he came out with the solution to guys who peer
over your side when you're having a pee. He was going to have "F*CK OFF"
tattooed on his willy but had to settle for "F OFF" as there wasn't
enough room.

 

Champ emerged from their own little world to say

in 10pt

 

I'll cheerfully name bikes I've owned as things to be avoided at all
costs. Most of 'em, in fact ;-))

Fast enough for him to add it to the list of vehicles he's crashed,
mind.


and, lest we forget SteveH's description of his Nissan

Yes, I'd forgotten that )
I'll be careful here, as the Silver Tuddy is a P*i*e*a........

 

<snip>

Er, Mick, I think you're getting confused here. The original CB750, the
SOHC bike, was dry sump, oil tank behind the right hand side panel, and
valve adjustment by screw and locknut. Owned one, I did.

The CBX750 was DOHC, six speed, wet sump, with hydraulic valve lifters
so no adjustment necessary. The same basic lump is still around in the
Honda CB750F2 retro thingy.

Trust me on this.

 

I refer the learned gentleman to my original posting:

"Honda 750 4 the one with the oil tank in the frame".

Which is the CBX 750 F, with hydraulic lifters and the engine oil tank
in the frame. Down tubes from the head stock to the cross tube just
below and beneath the engine forming the oil tank.

Trust me on this. I stripped one to replace the big end shells.

 

I agree it's different. When I expanded on my reasons for selecting it
the combination was it's affordable, reliable, and practical, but not
dull to drive. This also applied to the other 2 cars I listed.

The whole point is they're food for thought.

 

Absolutely.
Not a dry sump. (Didn't say it was.)
Oil in the frame. I think it the frame had a larger capacity than the
filler/header tank thing that acted as a 'de-airator'[1] for the oil. It
had lots of plates with spiky holes in them. Maybe the air was
introduced by the hydraulic lifters?

Although I don't remember the twin oil pump layout. After I found the
main bearings shagged, I source a second bike for the guy who own the
original. I then stripped the two and made one good one out of them.

[1] That's what the maintenance manual I sourced for the bike called it.

 

Ben Blaney says...

OK, I quite like the shape. There's not a lot else anyone could have
done with the rear of that car as it is absolutely massive in length.
It's almost like a flattened and stretched S-type with an early XJ
grille treatment. They were designed primarily for the US market, where
traditionally most Jaguars are sold.

I think all the cars that Sir William Lyons had a hand at styling were
utterly gorgeous. Even after he retired the Jaguar design team would
drive pre-production cars to his home at Wappenbury Hall, for him to run
his eye over and suggest changes to.

 

tallbloke says...

My 2002 Honda XR400R was oil in frame.

 

Yeah, I've read the whole thread now, and I can see we were were talking
at cross-purposes.

I thought you meant dry sump, which you rightly say you weren't.