Chronicles of Alan; Lucas 5

One day at Lucas a Morgan Sportscar came in, Problems with SU Carb tuning , I had had quite a bit of SU experience as I had owned several Jaguar Mk 2's, so we set them up , actually Roy did , I just checked them as well.

Naturally , we took it for a ride together ( Lucas was very close to where the Johannesburg Hill Climb was held) up to the top of a Mine Dump!

The Rover/Buick V8 went very well in this light car. Morgans's had a unique sliding pillar front suspension design.

There are several Kit Cars available based very much on the Morgan Body design.

Herman W , a good friend of mine who owned shares in The Bike Hospital at this time, had another friend doing a Turbo Version of a Kawasaki Motor in a Metisse Frame! ( Metisse meaning Mongrel Bitch in French)

I modified the Ignition system for him.

BTW if you have an older car that is not fully electronic , you advance the ignition roughly 1Degree per 1000ft above sea level . When you are Turbocharging or Supercharging, you retard the automatic advance by 1 Degree per 1lb pressure increase over standard.

The Kawasaki still used points and spring loaded centrifugal advance , I modified it according to the pressure they said it would be boosting at ,

He never actually used that much pressure as he would go sliding back on the seat, and was actually terrified of the Bike!

Could not find a Video of a 1000 Turbo actually being opened up , but here is an 1100

I really loved my time at Lucas doing what I enjoyed.