Waiparous Day Trip Saturday, January 2, 2016

[B-Red]

Great pictures from all here. I really enjoyed my day out on this trail.  Breaking through the ice was interesting with John's D90. Good recovery though. Climbing the river crossing ledges proved challenging for some lol.
Weather was also great.
Thank you John for organizing this event.

I was wondering, are we allowed to do winter camping on this trail? Some of the RVs on this side of the road looked they were there for the weekend. Would be great if we can organize a winter camp there. Some great trails for picking or snowshoeing.

Cheers, Emad

[Red90]

I was wondering, are we allowed to do winter camping on this trail? Some of the RVs on this side of the road looked they were there for the weekend. Would be great if we can organize a winter camp there. Some great trails for picking or snowshoeing.

Yes.  You can read the rules here: http://aep.alberta.ca/recreation-public-use/recreation-on-public-land/public-land-use-zones/ghost-pluz.aspx

Campsites and fires must be one kilometre (0.6miles) from a Provincial Recreation Area

Have you ever been to the site we use regularly west of Sundre?  It is a nice spot.

[B-Red]

Good to know. I am not familiar with the site you mentioned. Do you have GPS coordinates for it?

[88Hillman]

You have to wait until it's at least -30C before you go camping west of Sundre...

:o

... at least that's the story I tell my wife!

[Red90]

Good to know. I am not familiar with the site you mentioned. Do you have GPS coordinates for it?

Of course.  If you want directions, let me know.  Coordinates by themselves are probably not enough.  Maybe we can do a camping weekend there again now that 88Hillman is coming out of retirement.

[B-Red]

I would be interested in trying this out. Adam was taking about this as well.
How does February sound for the folks out there?

[lropchan]

Thanks Bill,

The full set of photos are at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/lropchan/albums/72157663110326561

[Trevor]

Looks like a good time was had.

How was the hill? Icy, or not too bad?

[binch]

Great Photos Lloyd!!!!     We took a route up the creek so there really weren't any "big" hills this time.   In fact we didn't even need to chain up.   But still....it was a great day out ;D

[Red90]

The trip was up the Ghost River.

2016-01-02_GPS-Track by lropchan, on Flickr

[binch]

There was a vid clip posted on Youtube that showed some yeeps at the big hill two weeks earlier and they polished that hill really well.

[Terry I]

That was a GREAT day out!   Thanks for the tour John.....always a good outing!     And it was great to have Kirk come out an join us again too.....     I'm looking forward to seeing more detail of Jeff's 1961 S11 turbo'd 2.25 petrol engine too.    I think there will be a few people on here that will be quite impressed with the work that was done ;)    I've got a call into Malcalm to see if he knows who the architect of the landy was......should hear back tomorrow I hope.

wow, what's the scoop on the 2.25 turbo petrol?!!

[SpeedyJ]

The turbo 109 is mine, I picked it up a little over two years ago without any providence. I've explored quite theories as to where it came from, but so far I've been unable to identify the manufacturer of the kit, or even if it was a kit. My best guess for a while was that it was one half of the Janspeed Rover V8 kit produced around 1977-78, but even then, it's not an exact match.

For those that didn't see it, the 3 bearing 2.25 petrol (possibly from a 73-74 Lightweight) is running a small, low pressure turbo with a draw through SU carb. It has a standard points ignition that get's intercepted by a home built ECU (think RadioShack c. 1980) that does some black magic to the timing and helps it run.

The motor is a bit tired and runs more then a little rich (better then lean, no?), but seems to pull pretty well. I've been focused on resurrecting/refreshing the brakes, axles, swivels, tires, wheels, etc, and have only given the engine a tune up so far. The truck was in dry storage for around 15 years before I got it, so I just wanted to get everything else roadworthy to give me a chance to assess the engine before I went down the rabbit hole of engine swaps and rebuilds.

My most likely plan of attack at this time is to convert to negative ground and install a MegaJolt ignition system, this gets rid of the points and allows me to program the timing based on load, rpm and boost.

Lloyd, those photos are great! Do you mind if I use a few of my truck on Facebook?

Cheers

Jeff

[lropchan]

Thanks Jeff. Feel free to use some for your facebook page.

[binch]

I spoke to Malcalm and he had no idea about the truck so there goes that resource.    But it did have a sticker from a local Land Rover dealer that was located on 109st and stoney Plain road back in the 60's.     I've seen the turbo unit on a Brazilian website, applied to a 4 cylinder engine as well....but not nearly as tidy a job.