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Subject: Re: Congratulations

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Congratulations from Lennie the Lagonda (Leonidas - GT 4530 : 2-Litre T2 Low Chassis Tourer) plus keeper.

We discussed your new venture at our Northern Lagonda Factory Christmas Dinner yesterday evening in Oldham. Lagonda Club President David Hine, Lagonda guru Alan Brown, Lagonda afficionados Nigel Hall, Nick Hine, Mark Butterworth, Ken Bailey, Terry Tratalos, Roger Firth plus yours truly wish you good fortune, and plenty of interesting postings.

Tim Gresty

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Subject: Re: Congratulations

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Peter,
We applaud your decision and energy creating this forum, and will participate in discussions if we have something to contribute.

I hope you enjoyed the Contintal rally: just to see seven V12's lined up would have been worth all the effort (photo on P. 24 of Club's autumn magazine).

Again, congratulations.
Mark and Jim.

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Subject: Re: Congratulations

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Dear Dr Schirg,

Many thanks for pointing me to the new site and congratulations on the initiative and the implementation. It has surprised me in the past that there's so little Lagonda interest on the web - the Yahoo forum is effectively dead I think. There's a huge contrast with, say, the A7 situation where there are many good sites and much good information from all round the world. I'm sure this site meets a real need.

Regarding Hans' query about 2L carburettors spitting back - I'll be interested in comments from the experts as I have had the same experience with the HC tourer I'm working on. I suspected camshaft timing also but careful plotting shows a 40 degree overlap which shouldn't be a problem I would have thought.

Anyway, congratulations and thanks,

John

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Subject: Re: Congratulations

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The 2 Litre is very particular as to the hardness of the plugs,if they are to soft the car will misfire in a most dramatic way.You will be pulling nicely up a long hill and suddenly the power will fade followed by banging back through the carbs .This is due to the plug tips becoming incandescent and firing off at will.I suggest a harder plug ,I use NGK A8.Hope this sorts it out
AdrianLead

Subject: Re: Congratulations

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What do you call "hard" and "soft" concerning plugs; is that identical to "hot" and "cold"...?

bob

Subject: Re: Congratulations and Spark Plugs

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The confusion with hot and cold is better remmbered as "hot running" or "cold running". Therefore a hot running plug is needed for a low performance engine (also known as a soft plug) and a cold running plug is needed for a high performance engine (hard plug). A hot plug has a long heat path from the centre electrode to the body and a cold plug a short path so it runs colder in the same engine. Ideally all plugs will actually run at the same electrode temperature under normal running conditions thus different engines require different plugs to achieve this.
Confusingly some manufacturers use a high number to denote a cold plug wheras others use a low number.

Subject: Re: Congratulations

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that's OK,thanks...

bob

Subject: Re: Congratulations

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Thanks Adrian. I'll give them a try.

John

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