The 'E' Type Forum

Dunno if this is internet rubbish or truth. I’ve recently heard that there are counterfeit NGK plugs offered via your favourite on line sales platforms.

I lasted less than a minute.

2+2 every day of the week for me. I can use it. I do use it. I've driven it every year at least 4000 miles, 87500 miles in 23 years. I've done the weekly shop, during Covid that was for three households. I've filled it with DIY stuff to help out my son with his first new house. I've filled the car w...

“Would Sean need to fit flat hub wheels if he changes the uprights, discs and calipers for Series 2 parts?”

No.

My S1 has S2 uprights. No idea when they were acquired. Before my stewardship of the car.

On the OP's specific point I know of another car (S3 2+2) which has black lettering directly on its powder blue paintwork.

Mine has only ever had a stick on front 'plate'. For several years this was a white reflective plate rather than the black one it currently wears. A friend from years ago served his apprenticeship at a Jaguar dealer. One of his first jobs was sticking a number plate on an E-Type. He stood back and r...

Even better is if there is a lister close to by who has a similar car available for random inspections photos etc.
I’ve done this for another lister. And I’d happily do it again.

Oops!

“Goodwood Members meeting where i am competing in the Vintage Specials race, which i have got to tell you is going to be quite an event”

Noted in the diary.

I find my bonnet, not original to the car but as it is quite new has little or no additional weight (decades of rust or seventeen resprays), only stays up if the car is level. A few degrees nose high and it won’t stay up. Same if it is a few degrees low at the front. I’m sure someone with a better b...

A lister on Jag-Lovers developed a dynamic LED based lighting system for his dash panel. Multi coloured lighting linked to the gauges such that (for example) the temperature gauge turned red when the gauge indicated overheating. Others have fitted short strips of LEDs inside each gauge. Simple to re...

As a taster for the actual event, testing days have been open to visitors. Yesterday was the last. https://i.postimg.cc/9QnbJ4dR/IMG-1444.jpg CUT8 is well known. Now owned by and will be driven by Jenson Button. It didn’t have a good day, failing the strict noise limits despite having a silencer and...

Seen at Goodwood Breakfast Club on Sunday




Vredesteins, but not the usual. These were Sportrac 5 in 225/60 VR15 mounted on centre laced wheels. The car was a 66 FHC.

My car spends most of its time on the road in a highly polished condition. DRLs would not increase its visibility by much. That said, I do find myself switching the dipped headlamps on when passing through shady woods or tunnels, and switching them off again. I’ve noticed many modern cars doing the ...

I’d double double check the timing of the 123. First check the timing pointer is correctly indicating TDC, then I’d use a timing light to check both static and the advance curve. It sounds like the timing might be quite wildly advanced. On S1s this is a pain in the neck as the timing pointer and the...

The 123 dizzie… https://i.postimg.cc/qRdQkbK2/IMG-0790.jpg ….removed from the engine showing no signs of oil on the outside of the unit. https://i.postimg.cc/CKbH6G25/IMG-0794.jpg Inside, however, lots of oil once the central drive shaft had been removed. https://i.postimg.cc/Sxn3tPqr/IMG-0795.jpg h...

“do not fit a high torque unless you actually measure yourself and are satisfied do not rely on others“



I measured mine and determined the spacer was needed.

As always, YMMV.

I’ve checked the crankcase ventilation (first thing I thought of), all is correct. Not sure about the coil. It’s a Lucas branded gold coil. Currently thoughts are that the oil is worming its way up the dizzie shaft through worn bushes. I have two other dizzies - one conventional and one with Lumenit...

And it is very curious. I have been finding traces of engine oil inside the distributor cap. I first noticed there was quite a little puddle on the top of the PCB which sits under the rotor arm carrier in my old 123 distributor. It has taken me a while to confirm the source of this oil. It is coming...

Today I took Freddie to Goodwood to take part in a charity drive event as part of this months Sunday Breakfast Club. About ten GRRC members’ cars volunteered to take punters on a ten mile jaunt around the Goodwood estate. Starting at 8:30 we had four or five drives, each taking about 20 minutes. Wel...