The 'E' Type Forum

I want to copy Monsieur Mich and use cheapo OMP gold-paint !

Is that OK for a May 1962 car ? Trouble is, the engine is R1995-9 which is October 1961.

Angus will treat us with more respect, Mich, after next Sunday night ................

On the subject of Mahle pistons, I have very recently been sold a set (at way over market price, long story) by a "well known engine builder" - who increases the price by a further £120 by supplying, at the same time, a set of American Grants piston-rings, as they say : We won’t sell Mahle pistons w...

Thanks for all the input. I would have thought that if you were a well-known XK engine specialist, regularly faced with crack-repairs on cam-covers, you would have a jig that enabled you hold a cover "on its back" as it were, with a series of pillar-bolts, to constrain the cover whilst welding ; you...

After my polite enquiries about the billing inconsistencies,the mark-ups, and the shabby work on the covers were met with total indifference, bordering on outright hostility with a big dose of condescension, I have kept calm. Amazing. And sort of gone to the dentist, as each point has been like pull...

I am reeling from some recent exchanges and interactions with a "well-known" supplier and service-provider. I won't prejudice the situation by naming names, or nailing my opinion to the mast, yet, although my choice of title will give you a clue. However, whilst trying to resolve this "amicably", I ...

Hello Lee,
A minimum of curtesies brightens all our days up, I see from your other posts that this is a constant.
SNGB haven't given a date yet, they're pretty advanced and as soon as they are available I will add the info here.

Hi Angus, Have answered my own question, indeed it's just another bog-standard 1" welch-plug and it should have been removed when the block was acid-dipped ............ Intruiged by the "strap" method - I thought this was to stop them falling out, hence the Guy Broad kit http://www.guybroad.co.uk/la...

Rather than start a separate thread, maybe I can develop this one. Pulling stuff together now that I have my acid-dipped/machined/bored/skimmed/ground/refurbished engine components back, and am wondering about core-plug procedures. The machine-shop have removed the 7 off 1-3/4"main ones (C.315) but ...

Aplogies, but am I reading Viz ? Have never had a bolt come loose, if it was the correct fastener and correctly tightened, and - sorry, again - the result looks a mess. No manufacturer has ever done it, and no race-preparation I've either been part of or witnessed - on either 4-wheels or 2 - has eve...

Interesting. Don't have the crank to hand to check the number, it's 1.500km away. I had always thought that from engines R1 to R2563, the C.4808/1 cranks in the 3.8 had the scroll, with a rear carrier C.16137/S to suit, and that the rope seal arrived from engine R2564 onwards, mounted in the new rea...

My crank will be down to the last undersizes by the time Chesmans have finished with it, so maybe it would be a good idea to find another. Can someone enlighten me regarding how year/model specific a late 1961 engine crankshaft has to be ? What else will fit etc ? Mine is pre-rope-seal, but as I'm g...

Fortunately for you lot I'm not much of a drinker.

But woe betide you if we cross paths in a decent patisserie ..............

The pre-2017 PhotoBucket links appear to have ALL been reinstated over the last 72h ........... but then it was the .org that had to be replaced by .cc for the post 2017 PostImg stuff and I haven't been through all my posts to alter them, somewhat battle-fatuiged by the time this wastes ! However if...

For anyone who has been interested in Hood-To-Windscreen sealing but couldn't see the pictures, the links have now been reinstated.

They claim to be "under new management" and acknowledge previous errors ......... But so far they're up to their old ways - the deal that was $20 p.a. and that was available only today can't actually be accessed, the site or link is dead, whether you pay by VISA or PayPal. How much do you bet that w...

Having managed to piss-off a couple of million customers, by subjecting them to a racket that has rendered most of the photographic archive and links on this Forum unusable, PhotoBucket have begun to see the light by UNLOCKING all the links that were frozen, and offering a subscription at $20 a year...

Just the OTS silver-blue electric ones maybe.

Sod the batteries, did it raise the value of our cars ?

I've forgotten what my E-Type looks like, as the workshop is full of many more pressing and needy 2-wheeled projects. At this rate, indeed, I'll never remember how to put it all (engine, and complete front end) back together again ........... at least without recourse to printing out the 50 pictures...

My understanding was that a torsion bar is absolutely NOT progressive, but a coil-spring can be, by arranging staged coil-binding so that you essentially have several springs in series. This is how motorcycle springs are designed. If the truth be told, a spring behaves like a coiled torsion bar, and...