The 'E' Type Forum

You may find they coincide with the orbit of Pluto, in which case you can only drive 15 nights a year. Either that or the gravitational pull of Ready-Mix concrete trucks driving past. More seriously, I am looking forward to seeing how this thread develops as I am considering setting up carbs with O2...

Since Angus is doing so much work, could somebody do him a fave and rustle up sticky labels with names on? It would save a heck of a lot of asking each other our names. Added value would also come from people who use forum aliases to put them on as well, so we can avoid anyone we owe money to - sorr...

It isn’t a monocoque but a glassfibre skin over a ladder chassis identical to the Cobra kit chassis thry sell. Not one part is D spec and it has independent rear and saloon coil spring front. It cannot compete fairly as it is so different and more developed. Oh well, nothing a 100 Euro note pinned t...

I’d regard that as a scrutineering pass certificate and have never raced anywhere that a scrutineer would accept or care about what someone ekse said at a prior event. So assuming an FIA passport doesn’t gain anything in terms of scrutineering, which has to be repeated start-to-finish T each event, ...

This car, like many others that I've seen, claims to have FIA papers: https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1065387 I am confident that this very nice Realm not only has no race car components but is not even vaguely close to D-Type in spec, unless you count a wheel at each corner and a six-cylinder ...

Will need to see if I can work out why your relay has 5 wires going to it and mine has 2. Will need to chase them back when the radiator is off. I suspect the only thing you actually need to work out Toby, is where to buy your workshop manual if your dad didn't get one during his ownership. As it h...

Thank you Geoff for reminding me that the more I learn the less it appears I know! “Where has this chart been all my life?” No, wait, “Now I know why I spent forty years playing with air-cooled engines.”

basilruler1234 wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 15, 2019 6:40 pm

...the chap said their springs were specifically for the roadster and fittings them to a FHC would put the car much too high.

Sounds a bit ‘iffy’ to me...

Removing the upper washer allows the washer on the sprung valve to form a seal with the header tank. Removal of the washer also makes the cap easier to turn. The earlier photo of the two caps side by side shows that there is only one washer on the old cap. Yes and no Nick. The cap on the right was ...

It may not look great but it looks 'OK' If it's one of the oversize studs that has stripped then remember that to fit a helicoil you have to drill/tap larger again and there isn't a huge amount of meat on those corners (which may be even thinner from polishing). Cast iron is not very strong in tensi...

Hi..both.....was there inhibitor/ antifreeze in your systems?......what type..?....Steve Hi Steve Don't really know. It wasn't clear water but I thought it more or less drained out because the radiator was leaking. I put the car away as soon as I got it home. It had been standing for about 25 years...

Actually worse rust is reportedly one of the weaknesses. I read of someone (possibly a motorcyclist) who took the wrap off and found the exhausts rotted almost totally away up near the head at the first bend. His theory was something like the extra heat did it, or the moisture held in the wrap durin...

smokey_m14 wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 12, 2019 1:20 pm

originally produced by intimo not current production

She says "Tell him he wouldn't have recessed nuts around his stud axle for long if I catch him wearing them.".

(She's a bit hard of hearing, as you can tell)

SNAP!

Here's my TOTALLY SEIZED crystallized V12 waterpump after three years parked in the garage with a dud radiator.

‘Rutuja’ simply rephrases the posts of others using improbably contorted ornamental language with zero original input. This is clearly some asinine troll game he enjoys.

Today it is Chris Storey’s post above from 26 Jan and yesterday it was Julian’s tach post from March 5th.

smokey_m14 wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 11, 2019 7:50 pm

Should I just reuse it and bend another tab up?

No idea on the tab washer but my wife wants to know where you got the delish pineapple yoga pants...

Exhaust wrap is an excellent way of cutting down underbonnet and cabin heat - especially with six long pipes. It is also a fractionally effective tuning aid in that hot exhaust is less dense and the longer you can keep it hot the easier it is to expel - again particularly useful on multi branch head...

Correct Simon, although an over-carpeted floor can limit fully-open too...

288gto wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 07, 2019 9:52 pm

“...if...staff were actually aware of that... when questioned.”

“Are you now or, have you ever been, a member of...” the police, Simon?

I'd never even heard of a clutch servo. The stuff you learn on forums...