Hot Commers
- Thread starter RyanM
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grooooooooooovy wheels 
, look fab on a COMMER
"you were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off"
, look fab on a COMMER"you were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off"
New to this whole scene, but I'm guessing through some subtle clues that the old Type 2 is a piece of blasphemy.
Have to say a nice pimped up Commer would make that thing look weedy and boring anyday. Now to find someone who has spent all the cash on one.
Glad you guys like my personal taste though, the overall look rather than that particular vehicle.
Thought it would be mostly purists on here losing the will to live at the thought of maybe altering the Commer to something other than when it was factory original.
Have to say a nice pimped up Commer would make that thing look weedy and boring anyday. Now to find someone who has spent all the cash on one
.Glad you guys like my personal taste though, the overall look rather than that particular vehicle.
Thought it would be mostly purists on here losing the will to live at the thought of maybe altering the Commer to something other than when it was factory original.
We are very broad minded, all we want is to see is Commers on the road, altered or not
no worries ryan, very few factories got everything right, there is always room for improvement especially with all the modern components there is available , never could see the point of spending money renovating a poorly designed component when there is a much better option available.
"you were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off no.3"
, never could see the point of spending money renovating a poorly designed component when there is a much better option available."you were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off no.3"
hi have a look at my pics in reader rides the click link on top pic then have a hunt 4 WILLS pics .. im fairly new on hear and every body iv spoke to appreciates a wide variety of classics ,hotrods ,race car & not one criticism on wot you do to your own toys in fact quite the opposite .there loads of very clever people on here commerracer / martin if he can get your name right / will / panky the list goes on and they will all give you advice happily should you need it ..
then have a hunt 4 WILLS pics .. im fairly new on hear and every body iv spoke to appreciates a wide variety of classics ,hotrods ,race car & not one criticism on wot you do to your own toys in fact quite the opposite .there loads of very clever people on here commerracer / martin if he can get your name right / will / panky the list goes on and they will all give you advice happily should you need it ..talking of the " v word" one of the problems with the engine is they strip the threads out of the crankcase head bolts, this is due to crap design the bolts being about 10" long and of low expansion steel, so they do not expand with heat and pull the thread out the ali crankcase [xx(].
they had the same problem with the porsche 917 race car in the 60,s, it was overcome by making the bolts out of "dilvar" an alloy with a high co-efficient of thermal expansion which followed up the barrel as it expanded with the heat,even then they found the bolts had to be wrapped in a thermal insulator to maintain sufficiently high temperatures to expand the bolts without overstretching them [B)] one good reason to own a commer instead
"you were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off no.3"
they had the same problem with the porsche 917 race car in the 60,s, it was overcome by making the bolts out of "dilvar" an alloy with a high co-efficient of thermal expansion which followed up the barrel as it expanded with the heat,even then they found the bolts had to be wrapped in a thermal insulator to maintain sufficiently high temperatures to expand the bolts without overstretching them [B)] one good reason to own a commer instead
"you were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off no.3"
'Divlar' that's what we used to call the unfortunates who did not conform with our strict code of conduct at school (delivered with a strong scouse accent) 'yer a div laaa'
Co-efficient. Is that running along side real efficient, sort of almost efficient :I
'Harvey the RV'
Co-efficient. Is that running along side real efficient, sort of almost efficient :I
'Harvey the RV'