The 'E' Type Forum

You could cut a section out of an old wing.

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Wicked Darren.

How old is your brake fluid? Maybe worth changing it, as it absorbs water and expands when hot. Old brake fluid expands when hot though water absorption. Water turning to steam. All exacerbated by a sticking reaction valve piston and caliper pistons that are (relatively) infrequently used. Maybe kna...

I think my stainless manifolds would cook an ox in 4 hours. It all gets very hot under there. Full marks for the Fossway heat shield. I am sure it has been an important part in the overall reliability of my car. We have been all over Europe in the hottest traffic jams and the quickest circuits. No p...

Would have loved to. Next time.

Surprised you didn't hear me racing a Porsche Cayenne S on the A3 at around 9.30am yesterday morning.

I was giving it the beans!

Very true Marek. Don't forget, those track 400 bhp XK engines make almost no power whatsoever below 3,500 rpm, cost the best part of £75k and might last one season if you are lucky. They are really suitable for racing only (unsurprisingly). My last rolling road session lasted 4 hours. Emerald were v...

Radius arm bushes(on the cups).

Pretty easy to do. The new cheap ones are crap!.

James

Whether it is good or bad depends on the price. How much is it?

I find the radius arms slip onto the cups very easily if you attach them before you fit the lower shock mounts.

This allows you to jack the IRS up further than normal, closing the gap just enough.

Thanks chaps.

Yes, I was going to bottle it, then I changed my mind.

Dave Walker and his team have rolling roaded plenty of E types at Emerald in Watton. His figures seem pretty accurate as the Dyno is re-calibrated at least every 6 months. They reckon a really strong 4.2 is around 180 bhp at the wheels, most are in the 160 range apparently. Still plenty for a 1,200k...

The whole process of commercial car body paint removal is one best avoided if possible. Use poly discs on an angle grinder. Be kind to your car. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/5Pcs-4-Poly-Strip-Disc-Wheel-Paint-Rust-Removal-Clean-For-Angle-Grinder-100mm/312673302752?epid=11025801283&hash=item48ccc7f8e0:...

Darren,

Your car now looks abit like this one. Fairly badly damaged a couple of weeks ago at Mallory.

Bit of a coincidence?

I was worried for a while!

Hope he is OK.

What I mean Mark is, do the fans come on straight away?

ie Do they come on when the ignition is on and the engine isn't running? ie when the engine is cold.

This means a wiring issue.

James

Do the fans come on immediately when you start the car? If so it sounds like a faulty or a by-passed sender unit on the radiator. Have you an airlock on the cooling system? Have you a low coolant level? Is you coolant circulating? Is the temp gauges receiving the correct voltage supply from the volt...

Very cool pictures indeed.

They look like they have come straight out of Time magazine.

James

Very nice car.

Looks like it is parked outside a very interesting house as well.

You also seem to have a magically floating garden wall.

James

Hello Darren, I used a felt circle that came from SNG and it did the job. Dipsticks and oil levels and oil consumption are a surprisingly lengthy topic when it comes to E types. On my last new engine, I got some oil around the dipstick filler tube, even with the felt disc, for the first 1,000 miles ...

These bearings almost never fail as they should run in a bath of engine oil. In the case of lack of oil, everything else will have failed first (or should have). The head may have been starved of oil if the feed was blocked. This is pretty unlikely and I have only seen it once after DIY tampering. I...

I will measure some original ones for you later.

For now I would be tempted to give them a squeeze in the vice.