The 'E' Type Forum

Based on a lifetime of Ducati cylinder head work, I couldn’t count the number of times when I’ve either shortened valve-tips, or come across engines where someone else has done it. I’m not a metallurgist, and don’t know much is « safe », but I wouldn’t think twice about grinding 1mm off if it took m...

Phil - look out for a PM from me. It's coming back to me now. I found it surprisingly easy, and - from memory - free, and quick even, to get this - which certifies that "le véhicule ..... décrit .... (a) fait l'objet d'une réception nationale Française". You won't need a your-car-specific "cerificat...

Realised I had never put up the shots of the jig in use on the wheel-builder's pulpit. https://i.postimg.cc/mr44XpZw/IMG-20260313-WA0000.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/bvPPCVYR/IMG-20260313-WA0001.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/SK44T1Qd/IMG-20260313-WA0002.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/HkXHt1mK/IMG-20260313-WA0003.j...

This was on the wall at Sports Motorcycles, Liverpool Road, Manchester, at around the time the bike Steve Wynne put together won the 1978 TT in the hands of Mike Hailwood.

Your only portal is the FFVE web-site, where - if you dig, and can read French - the whole process is pretty straightforward. I have not personally used it for 10 years but know people who have, and recently, so I have no reason to think that it has got any worse. You probably need a Controle Techni...

Pleased to hear it James. My first stab ended up with the female cone a little too close for comfort to the spokes, so I tweaked the drawing - therefore you were an unwitting Test Driver. Phew. The real thank-you should go to my mate SEBASTIEN PELLETIER, known as SebPel obviously, who turns my scrib...

No realistic hope of doing anything but a botch with a helicoil fitted into 2mm sheet, I would go as far as to say I do not believe it is possible, and there is not enough depth for a Rivnut of any dimension that I have ever seen. For someone handy with TIG it’s about 10 seconds work ………. Your car i...

https://forum.etypeuk.com/viewtopic.php?t=21235 I fitted convex on both sides and think they are perfect. Flat on the driver’s side will give you too limited a field of vision. Make sure you read the above post so that you can 1. Buy them direct without swallowing all the chaff about « Specially for...

Great video and interviews post-race, thanks for putting that up

Here are the drawings, steel or any alloy will do. https://i.postimg.cc/k4dK3G0g/E-Type-Wheel-Balancing-Cone-images-0.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/Qtr1GC2X/E-Type-Wheel-Balancing-Cone-images-1.jpg It's important - if you're getting someone to make these for you - to grasp which surfaces and which geomet...

It will be nothing to do with the brake disc. You can take it out of the cart. IF it had warped after 400 miles, which I don’t believe for a second, all it would do would be to push the pads apart, by forcing the pistons further into their caliper bores, and you would only get the wobble when you br...

I have noticed - since the beginning - that our friend barks out orders in this manner, presumably using his telephone keypad for brevity, with no heed to manners nor subtlety, so I am assuming there must be some Paid Subscription version of the Forum where one is Entitled to obtain answers from the...

Thanks Geoff, answer - yes I think so.

All I want is a pair of hard-top mounting cheeks, and the guy won’t take less than 200€ for the whole lot.

Anyone want any of the other bits to get the deal over the line ?

Could someone hold my hand in identifying these parts please ? https://i.postimg.cc/kM08mS4Z/HARD-TOP-1.png https://i.postimg.cc/CKxnNHPL/HARD-TOP-2.png Aside from the grab-handle anchorages (?), the hard-top securing plates, the bonnet pig-tail, door-striker mechanism (which Series please ? not min...

Thanks for adding all that Andrew. Your remarks about the difference between the cars at the different ends of the E Type « Spectrum » - when on the surface they might appear similar - rang very true to me. There can’t be that many vehicles where the inherent complexities and foibles enable an owner...

B-Post Seals : Nothing remotely "machine-shop" and 0.01mm-precise about this, but it might inspire somebody. Finding the door-seals too "fat" is a very common complaint - I've even tried to get COH Baines to consider making a more slender version, but they're too busy Virtue Signalling to actually ...

Sad to come across references to dear Christopher Storey. However, his rapier brain would have required that we test some of his hypotheses, and I’m going to query the wisdom of his #6 post, above, where he refers to oval journals being used to combat resonant frequencies. Having some clue how hydro...

Have a couple on the boil now, thanks to everyone.

And to Serge, great, j'ai tout compris.

Yes Geoff, that would be ideal but perhaps improbable 🤨 - tho’ I would pay more than wine juice.

My idea was to buy one and then sell it afterwards. Unless I get a taste for it maybe.

Prices asked for them seem to vary wildly, there is one on Ebay - looks great but could it really be worth 10.500€ ?

I may need to find a Hard-Top for an event that I am considering taking part in. I have never looked at one of these close up and have no idea how they fit, or what you do with the hood etc - pretty basic questions I know. Could somebody confirm that you just leave the hood in place, presumably unde...