FAQ   Search   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  Search found 17 matches Rochdale Owner's Club Forum Index Author Message   Topic: rollcage fitting Mike Wood Replies: 6 Views: 16962 Forum: Olympic   Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 2:00 pm   Subject: rollcage fitting Has anyone had a rollcage - rear, or full - made recently for an Olympic? How do you fit one into a grp body. Rollcage feet are really designed to bolt into to steel monocoque bodies with steel sp ...   Topic: GT ASL 534 Mike Wood Replies: 8 Views: 45382 Forum: Owners Cars   Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2009 6:35 pm   Subject: Re: GT ASL 534 [quote="Andrew Roan"]This is my GT mamed Gracie . Needs work but then dont all cars. Sept 2009 sorry if big no good on computors Andrew Looks a cracker! Is Gracie on the road running f ...   Topic: Automotive composites Mike Wood Replies: 1 Views: 15825 Forum: General Technical   Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2009 6:32 pm   Subject: Re: Automotive composites An interesting books about Automotive composites. http://books.google.fr/books?id=iSbZAyJ3VxcC&pg=PA2&lpg=PA2&dq=Rochdale+Olympic+cars&source=bl&ots=-ODZ3B4JIR&sig=Ui3oHaCuv ...   Topic: Rochdale Marque Publication ? Mike Wood Replies: 19 Views: 70556 Forum: The Meeting Room   Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2009 6:28 pm   Subject: Re: Rochdale Marque Publication ? General Question:- Has anyone ever produced a publication on RMP and the Marque ? If not, is anyone working on something ? If not, does anyone think that there would be sufficient interest in th ...   Topic: Sprint/hillclimb Olympics? Mike Wood Replies: 0 Views: 7413 Forum: Olympic   Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 9:28 am   Subject: Sprint/hillclimb Olympics? Hi How many Olympics are being sprinted or hillclimbed? Or being prepared to do so? I'm aware of 1 in UK and 1 in Australia (great You-tube video!), plus at least one other that was hillclimbed ...   Topic: Aerodynamics Mike Wood Replies: 9 Views: 18562 Forum: Olympic   Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 8:55 am   Subject: Aerodynamics My Rochdale used to get front end lift and go all weavy at anything over 70mph. So I fitted a VW Golf Mk1 spoiler on the front. It cured any instabilty and was fine at well over 100mph. You can see ...   Topic: Aerodynamics Mike Wood Replies: 9 Views: 18562 Forum: Olympic   Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 7:23 am   Subject: Aerodynamics Hi Mike, Reference the wool tuft test, I have a magazine with a picture of the Olympic with the wool tufts stuck on it, I'll try and dig it out and have a read to see what it says. Moving house at ...   Topic: K Series engine? Mike Wood Replies: 8 Views: 19316 Forum: Olympic   Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 7:16 am   Subject: K Series engine? With regards to Mike's original question, in Magazine 114. P8, Keith Hamer refers to 3 Olympics with K series variants. Cheers, Howard Evans Thanks The reason for this 'thinking aloud' que ...   Topic: K Series engine? Mike Wood Replies: 8 Views: 19316 Forum: Olympic   Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 9:58 pm   Subject: K Series engine? Has anyone fitted a Rover K Series engine into a Rochdale Olympic? Surely the closest you could get to a Lotus Elite. Mike Wood   Topic: Aerodynamics Mike Wood Replies: 9 Views: 18562 Forum: Olympic   Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 8:52 am   Subject: Aerodynamics Hi Aerodynamic problems on Olympic - diagnosis & fixes? I see mention of well-known aerodynamic problems with the rear of the Olympic. and potential fixes, such as new venturis (see: http:// ...   Topic: Olympic in Ruislip in 1980s? Mike Wood Replies: 2 Views: 6421 Forum: Olympic   Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 11:36 am   Subject: Olympic in Ruislip in 1980s? Hi Does anyone remember a Rochdale Olympic in Ruislip, Middlesex (NW London) in the late 1970s/early 1980s. It was orange and in Brickwall Lane. Can't remember the reg unfortunately. Cheers ...   Topic: Tuning the Riley Engine Mike Wood Replies: 7 Views: 69042 Forum: General Technical   Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 10:20 am   Subject: Re: Tuning the Riley Engine Hi The book I think James mentions is: B. M. C. and Leyland B-series Engine Data by Lindsay Porter ISBN: 0850455979 Publisher: Osprey Publishing Publication Date: October 24th, 1985 It i ...   Topic: Ethanol blended Fuel Mike Wood Replies: 9 Views: 27384 Forum: General Technical   Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 8:15 am   Subject: Re: Ethanol blended Fuel Maybe some of these tanks were made using the wrong type of resin - there's a chemical resistant resin you can buy that is used for fuel tanks (e.g. on homebuilt aircraft such as the Evans Volksplane ...   Topic: Fibreglassing books & supplies Mike Wood Replies: 1 Views: 14197 Forum: General Technical   Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 8:07 am   Subject: Fibreglassing books & supplies Hi I've found a shop in Germany that has reprints of the probably most informative book on grp car body repair (can't think of another, but it is still very useful!). The book is Miles Wilkins' ...   Topic: Unregistered Rochdale Olympic /Will it ever hit the road. Mike Wood Replies: 13 Views: 28255 Forum: Olympic   Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 7:55 am   Subject: Re: Unregistered Rochdale Olympic /Will it ever hit the road Sounds like you may need to take the car through Single Vehicle Approval (or what it has changed to, see: http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/BuyingAndSellingAVehicle/ImportingAndExportingAVehicle/DG ...   Page 1 of 2 Goto page 1, 2  Next All times are GMT Jump to: Select a forum Welcome----------------New UsersForum News Events----------------Club EventsLocal Events General Discussion----------------The Meeting RoomGeneral HistoricalOwners Cars Cars----------------Aluminium bodied RochdalesMk2Mk VIType 'C'Type 'F'STGTRivieraOlympicGeneral Technical For Sale/Wanted----------------Cars For SaleParts For SaleCars WantedParts Wanted  Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group