On a serious note I collected my Plus 4 SS from Phil at Allon White on Friday but only took it home on a long run of 60 miles today . It was left in a hotel car park in the mean time. I went home with the top down today but I noticed a distinct exhaust fume smell in the cockpit and my wife also noticed it when I took her for her first trip since we bought it.
I must admit that it did leave me feeling a little nauseous too. I am very concerned re carbon monoxide. Has anyone come across this problem,it was certainly not the case with my previous Duratec Plus 4?
I was looking at Morgans at a Hill Climb site near me and noticed an early +8 with a perspex air dam fitted along the back of the cockpit, where the hood would be. It was about 2" high above the bodywork. It ran the full width of the cockpit.
The car also had exhaust pipes that extended a good 2" beyond the back of the bodywork.
The owner told me that these changes stopped exhaust fumes getting back into the cockpit. On pre-cat cars this is a common issue, he said.
On the subject of carbon monoxide, if the car has a cat there isn't any in the exhaust. Even on a pre-cat car the exhaust has to be collected inside an enclosed space to reach a level enough to be toxic. It is odourless so you cannot smell it, which is why faulty gas fires and boilers can be so dangerous in an enclosed space.
