The 'E' Type Forum

"It is being dressed up in a slightly more traditional fashion with triple SUs and a 123 tune distributor. It will be interesting to see how it performs, all other things remaining equal." This would be really interessting to know. Maybe (? ? ?) the rampipes I can see on the picture are a little bit...

Hello Curtis, keep in mind, that the original auto box from an 1993 V12 limousine is a VERY heavy (117 kg) and big box. I think you have to change the shape of the gearbox tunnel of the car. I have mounted such a motor with 4 stromberg carbs and a Getrag 5-speed into my EV12 OTC. Gas consumption rou...

Why don't you mount a vented cooling system for your amp ? You need a rubber hose form the air filter onto the amp and a second hose leading from the amp to the front of the car. If the motor is running, cold (!) air would be sucked through the amp. I can't estimate, how big the cooling effect woiul...

I had such a problem for three years. If the hydrocarbons are 2000 ppm and the co is 9,5% maybe some ignitions ar failing and the motor is blowing out not ignited mixture from some strokes. Such a problem can be ignition related or carb-related. Mine was ignition related. The timimg was much too ear...

"Ultimately I will be looking to to go to full EFI with coil packs etc but for now it may be a bottom end rebuild with the original carbs and ignition." The 6,0L HE-Motor has more displacement with a longer hub. A longer hub produces a torque curve with the maximum at lower revs. Maybe the solution ...

Does the motor have a good idle when it is hot ? If the idle is good, there es no leak for air at the hoses.
If the motor pulls air through a hole, the idle is bad.
Regards Wolfgang Gatza

Can you write her in the forum, if the tire-flat foam has closed all leaks.
The leaks must be closed for a long time, when using the car.

Roberts remarks about this are exatly 100% correct. If you use manifold vacuum, you have max vacuum at idle and therefore maximum advance at idle. If you have a 16 degreee capsule, you would have 10 plus 16 = 26 degree at idle. You would have a stumblingidle and therefore a very bad smell out of the...

"Again, I agree with Malcolm : XKs run best at a stoichiometric ratio of about 12.5 : 1 rather than the ideal ( weaker) 14 or so." ? ? ? 12,5 AFR at which level of power ? At iddle, lower part throttle or higher part throttle ? If you adjust the mixture for all 6 cylinders at IDLE to a AFR of 14,7 (...

"These are triple SU's on a 4.2l modified engine - cams, porting, big valves." 17 years ago I have made one big hole through the two silencers of my EV12. The back pressure was reduced. As a result I had a flat spot , when pressing the pedal suddenly to the floor from roundabout 1000 - 3000 rpm. Som...

Easy solution: take a spare spanner (in german language is called "fork key" or "open mouth" key) and saw it short and grind the mouth slim. Drill a small hole at the end and make a thin 1 m long yarn at it. 5 minutes to work, if you have a saw and a grinder. With this special stromberg-tool I was a...

"Vacuum advance (vacuum direct from intake manifold)" This is WRONG. The vacuum has to be taken from a port at the carb, "called tappered edge". Few carbs have this port. For my EV12 I had to drill a port to one carb. The port has to end roundabout 1 - 3 mm in FRONT of the butterfly. If you presse t...

"Some will vehemently insist that you MUST drill one carb to get so-called "ported vacuum" but I am just as convinced that is not necessary (unless you HAVE to meet certain emissions tests). I run my car with vacuum supplied directly from the manifolds and it runs fine under all circumstances." This...

Sometimes the rear springs are "tired" and the car is low. My EV12 had this problem. I mounted 4 new GAZ shocks from Barratt with adjustable high. Now the car is roundabout 1,4" higher in the back than before and I have less ground touches than before.
Regards Wolfgang Gatza

A friend in Germany hat exactly the same proble last friday. Working and testig all saturday, he found a corroded cable connection in the ignition system. He cleaned this and all was okay.
Maybe this is also your problem, but this is far away to be shure.
Regards Wolfgang Gatza

In my car is the modern AB14 ignition amp plus a distributor from a HE-motor plus a drilling at one carb for the CORRECT vaccuum from a "tappered edge" piont to a advance capsule.
Result: no problems since 12 years with the ignition and a lower gas consumption at part throttle.
Regards Wolfgang Gatza

"The Strombergs are 1.75 inch compared to the 1.73 inch of the HIF44." This is not correct. The entrance of the Stromberg has only roundabout 41 mm instead of 1,75 x 2,54 = 44.45 mm. I was wondering, when I realised this the first time. The SU HD8 has 2,54 x 2, 00 = 50,8 mm. I don't know, why the S...

Hello John, you wrote in a former post: Hello there ! No difference in performance between SU's and Strombergs at all. I think, that there can be a small difference in power between the Stromberg carbs and the bigger SU HD8. But maybe the difference is smaler , than you can detect / feel when drivin...

The disadvantages of this latter, of not using a “top-of-carb, throttle edge tapping”, is that there is vacuum advance when idling which may cause: • Car idling speed may (?) be unstable and relatively rough; • Yr car may (?) produce more pollutants when idling. • The advance vs load may not be idea...

IF ( ? ? ? , you have to check this carefully !!! ) you have a advance unit, the advance unit is adding roundabout 16 or 24 degree of crank advance time to the pre-ignition at idle. You will have roundabout 16 or 24 degree of pre-ignition at idle, if the distributor is turned / fixed to zero degree ...