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- Sun Feb 18, 2024 4:40 pm
- Forum: Welcome!
- Topic: Hi new member here
- Replies: 15
- Views: 921
Re: Hi new member here
mine ditto
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 7:50 pm
- Forum: Series 1
- Topic: Complete interior
- Replies: 5
- Views: 469
Re: Complete interior
What I would say is that some new leathers on restored interiors (matt, grainy, no creases) look like a brand new Audi. Probably because they are using the same leather supply. Original leather with wear, creases and scuffs (but cleaned up) would look far better IMO. When GB Classic Trim retrimmed m...
- Mon Jan 01, 2024 7:57 pm
- Forum: Technical
- Topic: Shortening IRS components
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1577
Re: Shortening IRS components
When I was doing my engineering training I witnessed a young apprentice at work on a milling machine when the cutter fractured and smashed like a bullet into his safety glasses. Glasses destroyed, eyes protected. Imagine losing an eye at 17 years old. I will never use any kind of metalworking machin...
- Mon Jan 01, 2024 7:49 pm
- Forum: Technical
- Topic: Shortening IRS components
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1577
Re: Shortening IRS components
No eye protection! Yikes
- Sun Dec 31, 2023 6:38 pm
- Forum: Series 2
- Topic: "A" Post seal retainers
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3710
Re: "A" Post seal retainers
Hey Rory, get some protection on that drop-dead gorgeous paintwork won't you? Cellaire foam stuck down with 3M 3030 (green) tape. Heaven knows how many chips and scratches that saved for me.
- Sun Dec 31, 2023 6:28 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Replicating an original Gear Knob
- Replies: 4
- Views: 902
Re: Replicating an original Gear Knob
I did bother, and concur, it's a waste of time
- Sat Dec 30, 2023 7:50 am
- Forum: Technical
- Topic: Lower steering column
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1684
Re: Lower steering column
And, "Please note that the pictures are "symbol photos" and the product shown may differ from the product sold."
- Mon Oct 02, 2023 8:41 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Hexagon of Highgate
- Replies: 3
- Views: 852
Re: Hexagon of Highgate
I went to look at this car early in 2015 and they had it for sale then, same mileage, same price. I imagine others have had the same reaction I did: it seems so precious that whatever you did to it, (e.g. touch it, drive it, replace anything at all) you would immediately reduce its value....and what...
- Wed Aug 23, 2023 2:26 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Crazy hardtop price
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1854
Re: Crazy hardtop price
Or one sixtieth of a burnt out Ferrari
- Sun Aug 13, 2023 4:36 pm
- Forum: Technical
- Topic: Headlamp Sugar Scoop captive nuts on wrong side ?!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1184
Re: Headlamp Sugar Scoop captive nuts on wrong side ?!
Jeremy, how did you go about excluding the water? I just went at it carefully from under the wing, pressing that black Eastwood caulk into every conceivable gap or hole that could possibly lead to the scoop space. I believe most of the water was being blasted in from behind by the wheels, and less ...
- Sat Aug 12, 2023 8:53 am
- Forum: Technical
- Topic: Headlamp Sugar Scoop captive nuts on wrong side ?!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1184
Re: Headlamp Sugar Scoop captive nuts on wrong side ?!
Rory, I seem to remember reading that it's done this way to position the scoop at a gradient, like a gutter, and in the eventuality of any water finding its way into the headlamp space it can drain away rearwards. Maybe I invented that. But it seems plausible that early cars might have accumulated l...
- Tue Aug 08, 2023 8:27 am
- Forum: Technical
- Topic: Header tank: Aluminium, brass or stainless steel?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1616
Re: Header tank: Aluminium, brass or stainless steel?
:yeahthat: :yeahthat: Just don't buy the Terry's Jag stainless tank that looks like the original. I did, assuming it would last forever. After 2 years I started seeing a sticky little puddle on the garage floor. Found TJ tank had started leaking from a pinhole in one of the welded/brazed outlet join...
- Sun Aug 06, 2023 12:58 pm
- Forum: Technical
- Topic: Rev counter behaving badly
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3585
- Tue Aug 01, 2023 12:18 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Preparing for restoration and paint
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2297
Re: Preparing for restoration and paint
Martin Robeys completely rebuilt my body a few years ago. Robey told me they never used chemical dipping because of the impossibility of getting 100% of the chemical out of the seams and the long term effects. They also chalked NO SHOT in big letters on the roof (and I guess would have done the same...
- Mon Jul 31, 2023 5:30 pm
- Forum: Technical
- Topic: Rev counter behaving badly
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3585
Re: Rev counter behaving badly
Speedograph Richfields can convert your tacho to a more modern circuit board. This can be run by simply connecting the tacho to the negative terminal on your coil. That's what I did. Original tacho wasn't working and when I sent it to Speedograph they told me they no longer repair the original circ...
- Sat Jun 10, 2023 11:36 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Case study: How was the E type conceived?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1197
Re: Case study: How was the E type conceived?
Geoff, I have sent PM.
- Fri Jun 09, 2023 9:55 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Case study: How was the E type conceived?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1197
Re: Case study: How was the E type conceived?
Thanks both, I will get hold of these.
- Fri Jun 09, 2023 7:28 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Case study: How was the E type conceived?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1197
Case study: How was the E type conceived?
Can anyone recommend a book or other texts exploring the process of how the E type was conceived and developed, as a creative process and an example of visionary leadership? A new colleague and friend of mine is a leadership coach who worked with Steve Jobs among others, and he saw my car for the fi...
- Tue Apr 25, 2023 6:50 am
- Forum: Technical
- Topic: Roller release/throwout bearing
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2132
Re: Roller release/throwout bearing
I believe Jeremy's engine was rebuilt by Rob Beere. It certainly is a very smooth sounding and operating engine. I shall PM Jeremy to ask if RB fitted the clutch and if he has any info of which release bearing. Geoff Geoff is correct, RB did mine, lock stock and barrel, i.e. engine clutch and gearb...
- Wed Dec 07, 2022 9:59 am
- Forum: Welcome!
- Topic: New Member
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8235
Re: New Member
I’d love to hear your thoughts on the differences between driving the E-Type and DB5 Andrew. I’ve heard the DB5 is a lot more vintage in driving style but is still quick. Cheers, Marcus I Had a DB5 years ago, sold it to buy our house. Along with the E Type it was a car I had been obsessed with as a...