Allright, so its great to keep things as they are. After all, it is a national monument, so unacceptable from anybody non-British to post ideas for improvements. Seems some are quite pleased to accept as is, some do mods in all sorts of ways as they like. Sorry for those who had to weld their engine cases, must be hundreds of them, I got one too. Sorry for those, who found broken ESA springs - plus that sort of mess like here, possibly just because of these springs - with costs of close to 1000 Pounds maybe. My guess, the Phils got some idea that the first design of ESA was not quite up to the job, did a D type after that - with not quite 100 percent success. And so on, who am I to tell, there are lots of postings here and in MHP about all sorts of "imperfections" , Norman or Greg some of them who can add more to this with more competence than me, non-British too. No, no respect for anything poorly designed, be it Vincent, BMW, Horex or anything, you can find anything anywhere which is crap - and I say so . . . .
Vic