The 'E' Type Forum

Forgot to mention...sticking with the 5.3 is good news for your manual transmission plan. The 5.3 uses the standard V12 bell housing, whereas the 6.0L had a different bolt pattern to suit the GM 4L80E auto box. As it happens, the old bosses are still present on the 6.0L but are undrilled. Still, it'...

Hello again, I already have the 6 carb. Weber kit (WITH choke) + the sausage type air filters and know that I must reduce the engine height (engine mounts), I must reduce engine heat to the carbs, use a recirculating pump to avoid fuel inside the carbs when hot and isolating shims etc. My mechanic ...

David's adjustment diagram and your rake adjust Chris do not apply to the OP's Series 2 AFAIK. The S2 and S3 only had reach, although you could probably fiddle something with larger or thinner spacers at the column mount points under the bulkhead. I still have my s1 2+2 column assembly somewhere and...

Hard luck. It's better to ask before you buy. The box is unusable in your car without serious body modification. If you'd had a 2+2 you'd only have to cut and shut the gear lever somehow because it is too far back for any E-type console but in your case you'd have to hack about the rear of the trans...

Hopefully nobody here with it being a saloon engine. http://tinyurl.com/384gy32 Looks like core plugs are extra on this rebuild. It has the manifold water rail on back to front, along with back to front exhaust cam plug, missing D-washers, a head rough sprayed over flaking crap with the plugs still ...

That'll be a V12 rev counter. Red lined at 6500 IIRC.

Roger all that on scuttle shake - it was pretty unpleasant on my 3.6 manual convertible. Coupe is a better driver's machine and I had a manual one of those too. Great long-legged cars and far more refined than an E-type in many ways. Great road presence too, in fact I couldn't keep up with one on my...

There must have been a US lighting requirement that forced Jaguar to go with the separate reversing lights. Surely they wouldn't have made another tailpipe variant and lived with the rather messy (IMHO) rear detailing if they could have avoided it by putting the reversing lights in the lamp cluster...

Yes, but unlike you Angus, I have no use for rubber rings the size of a bonnet rod...

Well if you will use prototype parts listings Angus (said Pete, praying his J38 parts book is later than Angus's) My 66 and 73 and 69 all have/had the chunky foam pad although one of them might have been felt, not sure. Your early cars were probably Jag's first attempts which they eventually got rig...

Yeah, definitely maybe :-) Am used to another forum using this exact same software, where we just add images from wherever into the posts themselves. Nobody can get at my computer. I tried the link thing just in case, but it was never going to work I guess with the way it's set up here. If anyone wa...

Hi Peter.......Interested in you Rear light info but never seen the Lotus light conversion (do you have a photo?) also what are Clam shells? thanks Steve Clam shells are the chrome finishers on each side blending the lamp cluster to the body. They aren't a bad item but they stick out and make the b...

On my car there were the remains of a piece of rubber on the flat plate. I replaced this with a piece of high-density foam - the sort used to make seats for race motorcycles. What then happens is that as you push the chrome lever forward to latch the bonnet, the piece of foam gets squeezed between ...

I'm technically in Cambs but 400 metres from Essex and about 800m from Suffolk. Where are you in Suffolk?

Pete

thanks for the info top ! now thats sorted i have an admission i bought a 420g inlet manifold and carbs to make it 3 su`s instead of 2 ooops it wont fit without bonnet scoop ! double oops, my question is has anybody modified one to fit ? i have some ideas as how to cut and reweld it but is there an...

I am deeply dubious about the Laycock overdrive having the capacity to take the V12's torque . The gearbox might just survive , but I can think of no other car with this capacity engine which had an OD fitted FWIW the Laycock engineers who run the repair place in Sheffield told me it would be fine....