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20th Jan, 2012 at 11:52:07am

On 20th Jan, 2012 miniminor63 said:
its his dayjob, what do you expect really?


no his day job is living in america building big/small block drag engines i think.

all im getting at is after its all sold out and he has done this he will vanish maybe re surface when he is planning something else. if he has a honest interest you'd thought that you would have seen him about making the odd comment before as there are some very intilectual convos that happen on here but unless its filling it with paper doesnt seem interested.

even some of his comments on tmf seem a bit lacking thought and politeness; just business business.

there are guys on here that can run a company and yet still be polite and respond to the community because they are keen to be part of the scene.....so to speak.

ignore me and get back on topic its just a pet hate of mine, not saying he hasnt done great for minis in the past just bugs oh looks hes popped up randomly and i wonder why :)

Edited by t@z on 20th Jan, 2012.

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20th Jan, 2012 at 12:08:48pm

I think that he is turning his attention back to the Mini scene as he can see that there is money to be made. He must be close to retirement, so this is probably just a bit of amusement for him.

As far as the Swansea tests of the Miglia engine are concerned, it will be interesting to see how much of the data is made public, how he interprets it and how he develops a solution.

My guess is that there will be another couple of APTFast cam profiles for sale.

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20th Jan, 2012 at 08:45:10pm

Really. Many people posting here seem to think he should be here just to answer all their queries for free.

I would assume he's a busy man, and one with a very high level of knowledge.

Why would anyone expect someone in that position just to hand out info for free, when he's spent a lifetime researching and testing to discover it ?

As one said, that's his job, his career. He then puts most of that information into books for everyone to learn from.

Can anyone who has bought the yellow book honestly say it was a waste of money ?
I certainly cant, it's one of the most useful tuning books I've bought.

Because of the internet, many people forget books still exist. And are often a far better resource than you'll ever find on the internet.

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20th Jan, 2012 at 09:10:14pm

and you get a discount if you arrive in a mini....

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20th Jan, 2012 at 11:41:16pm

We can all read the monthly mini mags' articles about a dyno test to find out what the best carb is on a n/a 1275 etc only to read at the end, "sorry had no time to test the weber" Useless!
Vizards articles always had a proper conclusion.
Respect to David Vizard. I've got lots of articles and books by Vizard and I've read nothing else that comes close.



Edited by dazibee on 20th Jan, 2012.


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20th Jan, 2012 at 11:51:49pm

When it comes to heads lets face it Vizard isn't no turbo phil, I bet he doesn't even have a sister!

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21st Jan, 2012 at 08:15:34am

He's probably not that pretty either...

On 11th Feb, 2015 robert said:
i tried putting soap on it , and heating it to brown , then slathered my new lube on it

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Paul S

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22nd Jan, 2012 at 05:36:53pm

Well, I just had a long telephone conversation with DV. He certainly seems fully clued up and up to date. Very interesting discussion :)

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22nd Jan, 2012 at 05:44:33pm

I do feel that I need to be clear that I have said nothing against DV knowledge and how relavent it is. Just that his story was pub talk, and we're all guilty of it; I know I am.

Have you blagged free front row tickets than Paul?

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On 2nd Jan, 2013 fastcarl said:
the design shows a distinct lack of imagination,
talk about starting off with a clean sheet of paper, then not bothering to fucking draw on it,lol

On 20th Apr, 2012 Paul S said:
I'm mainly concerned about swirl in the runners caused by the tangential entry.


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22nd Jan, 2012 at 05:48:31pm

cool,
thinking about it though, he's been in the US building v8s there cant be that much difference between the old a-series and one bank of a single cam v8 im certain i have seen them with siamese inlets aswell

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22nd Jan, 2012 at 05:53:33pm

would love to see DV's face when he finds he cant get on the set of springwatch...


On 22nd Jan, 2012 wil_h said:
Have you blagged free front row tickets than Paul?

On 28th Aug, 2011 Kean said:
At the risk of being sigged...

Joe, do you have a photo of your tool?



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22nd Jan, 2012 at 06:00:06pm

Cool what did you talk about?

I would love to go bt it would be wasted on me and not alone the cost which isn't that bad considuring the amount of time.


On 22nd Jan, 2012 Paul S said:
Well, I just had a long telephone conversation with DV. He certainly seems fully clued up and up to date. Very interesting discussion :)

I run a supercharger and I don't care the TB is on the wrong side.
VEMS + 12 PSI + Liquid Intercooler = Small Bore FUN!


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22nd Jan, 2012 at 06:01:20pm

I must say that I was dissapointed that he did not remember the conversation I had with him at the Pod in 1975 :( I was a Goodie in those days.

Saul Bellow - "A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
Stephen Hawking - "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."

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22nd Jan, 2012 at 06:44:51pm

75! is that before of after dinosaurs? i forget hehe

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