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Kevin, unlike carb cars, there's little or no vacuum on the crank case breather as it connects to the plenum. I suspect Triumph didn't connect it downstream of the butterflies as perhaps they were worried about upsetting the metering unit vacuum. In any case, my flame trap was clear so I ended up putting a tiny little self-tapper through the hole. See the thread "Source for Alloy Rocker Cap that DOES Seal Properly". Cheers, Richard

... And take them off from time to time. Don't do as I did - get lazy and leave them on. Now my wife's business sings are stuck on, possibly for ever. And she's gone and retired! Cheers, Richard

Briefly discussed dazzling headlights on BBC R4 World at One today - see 39:00 minutes in. They said it was thought to be LED lights, and also lights too high on some vehicles, auto-dip and speed humps. Suggested getting your eyes tested but can also be that older people's eyes take longer to reset after being dazzled. Baroness Hayter said Govt. is going to look into the problem. Not much but at least it was discussed. Cheers, Richard

Fair enough Stuart. They fabricate exhausts in the same way and were doing something for a Triumph which was very similar to your image - always wish I had taken a picture at the time.

Made by Chris Tullet Exhausts in Aylesbury circa 2009 if I'm not mistaken. I wonder if they still have the design files? Cheers, Richard

Yes, some early car LED tail lights used to do this. I remember one - I think it was a model of Peugeot - was particularly bad in my eyes. Scanning the road the tail lights would appear to flicker quite badly. I'm not sure that 240Hz would be fast enough to eliminate this - only one way to find out. ** But then, I can see the flicker of an olde fashioned (CRT) television out of the corner of my eyes. Cheers, Richard ** Experiment done. I can't replicate the "eye movement strobe" effect at 100Hz, so 240Hz should be good.

I spoke to someone at BMH in 2009 about the possibility of a Spitfire shell. It wouldn't happen he said, as there were some key sections where they didn't have the tooling and the car was still plentiful and cheap. The conversation strayed onto the BMH TR6 shell which hadn't long ended then. He said that likewise some of the tooling had been scrapped years before - my impression was that this was during Leyland or Austin-Rover days, not by BMH. In order to do the TR6 shells they had some "Rubber Tooling" made up which was far cheaper, gave acceptable results but had a limited life. A few hundr