The 'E' Type Forum

adding two sets of triple Webers or an injection System to improve performance and reliability. To improve reliability, only 1 thing is needed: upgrade the ignition to something modern like Lumenition etc. To improve performance, serious head and bottom end work is needed before you start spending ...

Hi Philip, Thanks for posting this, my car has the same issue. I was going to check that the choke plate was in the correct orientation. Is this what you term as the enrichment valve? Now I have another thing to check, would spraying some inert gas around the valve with the engine running demonstra...

V12 RH front carb does not flow fuel via transparent pipe to rear carb even when choke (enrichment valve) is fully activated. Problem was found to be the outer valve housing that had bent due to overtightening of the two screws holding it to the carb body. This resulted in air rather than fuel being...

I measured the depth of the main jets in my very well sorted car's ZS carbs to be 2.66mm from the bridge level to the deeper surface of the main jet surrounding the hole into which the needle goes. A friend working on a car that is idling pig rich found those jets to be at 2.7mm - much the same as m...

If the carbs overflow out the front face, wouldn’t this mean that all fuel would still end up in the engine, and if too rich, cannot be burnt? I agree Colin. This by far one of the most inexplicable reports I've come across. Although the solution seems clear the symptoms remain a mystery - to me an...

I am stumped!!

Whilst there are those who consider "Stromberg" a swear word, I recon it is, along with SU and Carter Thermoquad, one of the best carbs ever invented by man. Many a carb gets replaced simply because the fitted carb is not understood or the correct method of tuning it is not followed or understood. I...

excess pressure was being applied to the fuel feeds into the carbs and the surplus fuels only outlet was the exhaust I'm glad the problem is sorted George, but I still can not see how the fuel gets into the exhaust without pouring out the main jet and being sucked into the engine via the inlet valv...

would then do nothing without having run the engine fully up to temperature for a significant period The only fluids in the car is : - Coolant - Fuel - Engine oil - Gearbox oil / ATF - Brake fluid If its not fuel and its not (combustible) condensate, it MUST be one of the others. I recon the next t...

For fuel to leak from the exhaust, it would have to be coming from a very flooded carburetor, with the result that the three cylinders fed by that carb wouldn't/couldn't be firing at all. Just to be clear, the two carbs on one bank feeds into a common plenum from where the two branches feed the fro...

If the engine is running on all cylinders it CAN NOT BE FUEL. It CAN, and MOST LIKELY IS water that condensated to the cold exhaust pipe. Hot humid exhaust gas results in moisture condensating against the cold exhaust, causing droplets to form, which gets blown along the exhaust until puddles form, ...

Took my S3 for a 130km drive today (65km there and 65km back). Now that I REALLY have the cooling system sorted, I notice the following: 1) Alternator charging voltage no longer drops as low as before due to temp compensation; 2) Aircon works significantly better - better cycling of the compressor. ...

You do not mention tyre size. If, as is too often the case, an S1 is fitted with 205/70 rather than the correct 185 R 15 in either H or V rating, it is very common for the tyre to rub on the bump stops . It is simply a function of the tyre being too wide for the aperture I can see that being the ca...

Thank you Gents!! Excellent input. I am presuming that the owner is reading the manual on how it should be done :roll: I'll pass this on to the owner who is the one working on the car. At the time it did not occur to me that the drive shafts might be too short or that the brake discs might be too th...

Helping a friend who bought an S1 in pieces and is re-assembling it now. The car has so much negative camber at the rear, that the inside walls of the tyres are touching the bump stops. The amount of shimming required to correct it is so much that something is clearly wrong. I suspect that the lower...

I once had issues on a classic Range Rover and it turned out to be the return line from the engine to the tank that was blocked.

For the sake of others reading this thread, I thought it worth while mentioning that the return line should also be open to allow flow of fuel.

Fspp369 wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 25, 2020 5:29 pm

Mounting on the front of the rad is therefore a pointless excercise!

So we agree!

:-)

Spacers on the ends of the fan mounting “ spiders” to bring the tips of the fans back to assist in air flow ( according to a Cranfield engineer I know, something to do with tip vortex!!.) and the bottom flap is inverted. Mounting that lot in front of the rad must be an interesting excercise . Any p...

Fspp369 wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 25, 2020 3:37 pm

Ahh yes but you haven’t spotted the difference.

Sorry, I don't understand.

Fspp369 wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 25, 2020 10:06 am

I once saw this cowling mounted IN FRONT of the radiator by a highly regarded Jag rebuilder here in South Africa. So, yep, we have those too....