 The Sprite Passed it's MOT |
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 Mar 8 2010, 10:52 PM
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Got my Sprite through its MOT today. After checking it over, adjusting the washers and changing the black plates for a set of white and yellows I went of for the dreaded MOT.
 One hour later it had failed, to much CO on the emissions.  So off I went back to my lock up and some adjusting of the mixture. After much fiddling and sniffing of exhaust gas  I went back to the MOT station. They stuck the probe up the exhaust and found that I had gone to far the other way, CO ok, but to many hydrocarbons. As I had my magic screw driver with me I asked if I could give it a tweak whilst the probe was inserted (no laughing at the back now) and low and behold after a bit of a tweak everything was OK. As some of you may know my Sprite is a 1993 and should have a CAT (no not a pussy) but I got MiniSport to remove it when they did my stage 1 kit. So it is possible to get a 1993 carb Mini MOT'd without a CAT.  By the way it was not running as good after the adjustments so I will be re-tweaking the carb to the richer more powerful setting tomorrow, and refitting the better looking black plates. Those white and yellow ones just don’t look right.  |
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Mar 8 2010, 10:57 PM
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 Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 340 Joined: 24-October 09 From: Consett Member No.: 909 |
Congrats indeed, luckily i have not had the misfortune of the dreaded MOT yet
 but the day will come QUOTE (surfblue63 @ Mar 8 2010, 10:52 PM)  As I had my magic screw driver with me I asked if I could give it a tweak whilst the probe was inserted (no laughing at the back now) and low and behold after a bit of a tweak everything was OK. Have to admit I did give off a little giggle reading this QUOTE (surfblue63 @ Mar 8 2010, 10:52 PM) As some of you may know my Sprite is a 1993 and should have a CAT (no not a pussy) This too 
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Mar 8 2010, 11:23 PM
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 Advanced Member Group: Club Member Posts: 1,036 Joined: 22-January 09 From: Peterlee Member No.: 735 |
well done
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Mar 9 2010, 01:14 AM
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 NEMC Webmaster Group: Root Admin Posts: 2,300 Joined: 12-March 08 From: The People's Republic of Horden Member No.: 1 |
Woohoo!
 Nice one Stu!!
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Mar 9 2010, 05:21 PM
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 Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 345 Joined: 28-September 09 From: Chester le Street Member No.: 894 |
Nice one! Always good to hear of an easy MOT pass.
There are quite a few places who are happy to let you play about with the mixture to get them through, but there are some who are nerbs! |
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Mar 9 2010, 07:25 PM
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 Club Member Group: Club Member Posts: 169 Joined: 7-June 09 From: nr durham Member No.: 819 |
nicely done stu, you didnt even have to bribe them! any news on when you doing a reccy on the run?
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Mar 9 2010, 09:21 PM
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Club Vice Chair Group: Committee Posts: 231 Joined: 25-May 08 From: Sunderland Member No.: 80 |
My mayfair is a 1993 carb and it does not require a CAT for its MOT.
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Mar 10 2010, 01:49 AM
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Tech Guru/Events Moderator Group: Administrators Posts: 1,207 Joined: 28-May 09 From: Wallsend Member No.: 807 |
QUOTE (roofchoplofty @ Mar 9 2010, 07:25 PM) nicely done stu, you didnt even have to bribe them! any news on when you doing a reccy on the run? The reccy was done today (Tuesday). The route is 140-150 miles and I did it in 3 hours 50 minutes. I measured it from the junction of the junction of the A167 and A690 and back. I made a couple of small errors and I have not decided on the start position yet. The roads were dry today so I had lots of fun. I'll bring my plans to the meeting on Thursday. |
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Mar 10 2010, 08:33 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 728 Joined: 21-February 09 From: Leadgate, Consett Member No.: 751 |
nice 1 congrats.
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