With the hot weather generally staying with us in the UK the we had a loyal customer brought his pride and joy back into us with a requirement for a little extra cooling which we will get to shortly. We are starting to upload some videos to the WebShop to show the parts working like the our LED indicator lamps which can be found here. We are expecting more of these to be uploaded shortly. Thanks to one of our regular customers who asked for a video if we had one, so we thought – lets add them to the WebShop so everybody can see.

Customer Cars

We recently custom built a performance engine for a customer who has brought it back to us for its first full service with an additional request for some ‘extra cooling’. There area number of things that can be done, the first being the radiator. The more rows the radiator has the better the cooling as more air is drawn over the pipes. We removed the old radiator along with the shroud and battery tray as the new radiator wouldn’t fit with the standard battery tray.

The radiator was straight forward along with the new shroud.

There are few other things that can be done to help with the cooling, like better fan blades, bigger fan blades, spacing of the fan to the radiator, water pumps, coolant type etc. depending on what your engine needs and budget of course.

Did You know?

Every now and again when we sell a new radiator fan get asked, “Why are the fan fins set a disproportionate distances?” The answer is quite simple – noise. The uneven spacing changes the harmonics and makes it more pleasing to the ear. The uneven spacing of the blades doesn’t make any difference to the efficiency of the air flow if you’re wondering.

’68 Coupe Braking issues

A customer had asked us to sort out the braking issues on their car after a new master cylinder had been fitted by another garage. Nothing wrong with that of course, as long as they know what they are doing. It became obvious that this garage didn’t and this setup could have been quite dangerous in a real emergency.

The brake lines were fitted the wrong way round. The picture on the left below is how it was plumbed in by the other garage, on the right is the correct fitting along with some of Yogi’s signature plumbing. The new lines not only look better as they fill the void, but they are higher quality lines with new fittings.

If you’re unsure – DON’T mess with brakes. That’s all we can say on this one. check that the garage you are taking your pride and joy to actually know what they are doing. Needless to say that the car now stops how it should do after a couple of little adjustments were made. Another happy customer. 🙂

’69 Stop & Go

Here we have Lance’s car into us for some more little tweaks, although he did say he wasn’t happy as he got caught in shower on the way to us and the car got wet. Although we think it was just an excuse for him to get the cleaning stuff out again!

The car already has an Holley Sniper kit fitted and he loves it. What we fitted now is a new throttle linkage to keep the throttle cable straight, just because he can. This should give a slightly smoother feel to the loud pedal.

With the throttle sorted, we also fitted a Radium fuel pulse dampener and a billet Holley ten micron fuel filter.

All well and good having the performance there, but it’s always advisable to match the power with the appropriate stopping power. With that in mind Lance went for EBC Redstuff performance brake pads.

His old pads were removed although they had little wear on them.

Now that the new pads have been fitted we have already been told by Lance, ‘after the pads bedded in, there was a noticeable difference to the stopping power for sure.’

Stay Safe & Take Care!