bad colonies motoring cooperative

Latest Project: A Poor Man's Winter

Welcome to the bad colonies' website.This site is dedicated to the exploits of those individuals that find humor and adventure on the open road. You'll find detailed information on the 2006 Mongol Rally and extensive posts from our adventures. We are already planning the next catastrophe, which will be glorious. In the mean time we will continue to update this site with different gnarly tales of gnarly stuff.

What is the bad colonies motoring coooperative?

Way back in 2005, Dominic and I decided to participate in the 2006 Mongol Rally. We created the bad colonies motoring cooperative as catch all organization for like minded idiots that want to participate in a whole bunch of really stupid activities involving cars in the name of charity and free poorly written online literature (i.e. run on sentences). Keep your ears open cause the BCMC has just started to roll.

Life is like a Ford Fiesta on the Mongol Rally, once started it will stall if left to idle. - Seth

contributing writers

we would love to have more entries,if you would like to contribute, please contact me at nathaniel@badcolonies.org

The Official Minstrel of the BCMC - Sven Curth

Sven is good people and makes better than average music that does not suck. Want proof, the team consistently played his solo release "Me and Jim" while driving on the Mongol Rally. In fact, the convoy has since requested copies to play on the radio in London. The real question here is why haven't you bought your copy yet. Available here.

Stop by www.hot-fat.com, say hi and buy a cd or two.

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August 9th, 2006 posted by DMF

appreciate the comments on the idling issues. having trouble getting the comments page to open for some reason, so i’m adding a post.

as far as we know there are no solenoids involved with our carbs. pretty sure we’ve found the fuel pumps and are assuming that the filters are contained within the pump assembly. but neither one looks like it comes apart easily and with the ability to put it back together.

for the seat, the idle speed is already at max. if we turn the screw in the engine slows and dies.

yes, lightly pressing the accelerator will maintain the engine running. this air bleed passage we’ll have to look further into.

pretty sure the fiesta has EGR (we have a Haynes manual for a slightly different model of fiesta) and that’s one thing we haven’t looked at yet.

i’ve never heard engine pre-det, though it has been descibed to me as sounding like BB’s in a tin can. haven’t heard that noise. and decreased power? i’m driving a 16 year old 850cc spanish knockoff of an italian car loaded with tools, backpacks, spares, two 20 liter jerry cans of fuel and anywhere from 4-8 gallons of bottled water. no offense meant, sam, but i’m not sure i can detect relative decreases in power. appreciate the advice, though.

also note, at times the cars will idle just fine. usually just for one tank though. haven’t been scientific enough yet to monitor whether the problems are related to fuel from the jerrys or straight out of the pumps. cans don’t appear to be rusty. may try filtering through pantyhose on next fill up to see if there’s anything there.

fuel here comes in a rainbow of colors. filled up with pink gas the other day and yellow gas a few days before.

dominic

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