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[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Anyone used to get their car Crypton tuned? 

No, but I owned a 'Colourtune'......which was shite.

[Nick W]

Anyone used to get their car Crypton tuned? 

No, but I owned a 'Colourtune'......which was shite.

You need more than one! On single carb engines they only work if the inlet manifold is any good. If you use at least 2 colourtunes, you get a much better idea of what is going on. It's much easier to get multiple carbs right that way. A mate uses 8 at a time to adjust the mixtures on the 4 Dellortos on his Rover and his dad's Jensen.

[05omegav6]

Those Cologne V6s certainly took some fettling...

Oil changes every 6k, tappets and plugs every 12k, plus another 3k of trying to stop the rocker cover gaskets from leaking

And that's without worrying about rust and coolant loss...

[Andy B]

Anyone used to get their car Crypton tuned? 

No, but I owned a 'Colourtune'......which was shite.

I'm pretty sure I could still find mine 

[Marks DTM Calib]

I know EXACTLY where mine is 

[Ever Ready]

Anyone used to get their car Crypton tuned? 

No, but I owned a 'Colourtune'......which was shite.

I have to concur with the right honourable gentleman , (no guarantee that he is either honourable or indeed a gentleman)

I still have my colourtune and remember using it   oh the shame 

[05omegav6]

I know EXACTLY where mine is 

Hadn't left it in TBs garage had you

[Andy B]

I know EXACTLY where mine is 

I've had longer to accumulate crap stuff than you ...... so mine will be buried deeper   

[Ever Ready]

I used a crypton once under the guidance of Man Father....nothing it could do that you couldn't do with a few bits of gunsons kit.

I dont miss the days of tappet adjustment, regular plug changes, fiddling with carbs, changing points, swapping condensers, dizzy caps and rotor arms, changing the air flow setting on the panel air filter from summer to winter, manualy adjusting drum brakes, setting timing, adjusting dwell yada yada yada

Pulling cylinder heads every few years for a decoke

I didn't mind those days, I was younger and you didn't have to worry about having to shell out hundreds of beer tokens for a little bit of electronic gubbins

On the other hand you had to deal with Distributor drives, burst diaphragms on carbs, difficult tappets although the Kent cross flow had easy enough ones to do with their self locking adjuster

[biggriffin]

Have never owned on of them horrid blue oval badged things.
repaired a few tho,and done the 1300 to 1600 swaps and gearboxes etc.

[omega3000]

Have never owned on of them horrid blue oval badged things.
repaired a few tho,and done the 1300 to 1600 swaps and gearboxes etc.

You missed out then  My Mk5 Cortina was a rust bucket and broke down every other week but i loved it  Got me to Skeggy once 

[Ever Ready]

Have owned several of Henry's cars, first car was a Mk3 Cortina with a good old Pinto ohc in it,  I remember fitting Bilstein shocks and a Janspeed 4 in to 2 in to 1 exhaust with chrome pancake air filters to it, to a younger me it was the dogs dangly bits   certainly taught me the real meaning of opposite lock 

[omega3000]

My Mk3 Capri never let me down , was a bit slow starting in winter but always started in the end . Only took me a year to change to 2.8 leaf springs and adjust the tappets 

[Ever Ready]

Did it have the Recaro seats with the fishnet head rests?

I once had a moment of madness and fitted a pair of recaros from an SRi into my old trusty Coke bottle Mk 3.  I was king of the hill that day

Mind you it was a small hill

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Have never owned on of them horrid blue oval badged things.
repaired a few tho,and done the 1300 to 1600 swaps and gearboxes etc.

You missed out then  My Mk5 Cortina was a rust bucket and broke down every other week but i loved it  Got me to Skeggy once 

What was the difference between the Mk4 and the Mk5?......Not much I think.

Was the Mk5 the run-out model before the original Sierra took over?