The 'E' Type Forum

If you search « exhaust » and rfs1957 you should find a post I made 10+ years ago about this. I tried running straight pipes in place of the centre boxes, keeping just the tail silencers, and it was embarrassingly noisy, aside from destroying the nature of the care for anything longer than a 10 mile...

Can confirm these spray-gun filters do the business. However after a couple of years the "grip" on the 5/16" or 8mm pipe isn't quite so tight. I decided that having the pick-up pipe fully deep in the sump was probably not a good idea, as it left no safe volume for water to accumulate, so I cut 2¨off...

Caerbont in Wales do this kind of work, and they also manufacture all the Smiths-branded instruments as far as I am aware. Their work has always seemed okay to me, when they have overhauled or re-calibrated speedos and rev-counters on my cars. They did a really-convincing new dial on the Mini, with ...

I am sure Philippe would have followed this advice had he not been a little too far advanced in his assembly, frustrated by delivery issues, and he was actually confronted with only one valve that fell outside the standard range. As long as he gets ahead now, by preparing a few thin shims for when h...

Great, many thanks, will go looking on JL. Does anyone know what the reference is of those cheese-head chromed screws, two per side, seen in the pictures, that hold the slotted-hole drop-links that bolt to the cheek plates ? I did find (last page 322 in J30 ?) some sort of partial Hard-Top parts lis...

Further query : has anyone found a way to make the soft-top and roof-sticks Quickly Demountable ? Jack at BAS rackons it could perhaps be done with a zip, whilst leaving the rear chrome trim in place, but it's unlikely to be very discreet or elegant, and I wouldn't want to be the first to try it - B...

Update. I bought a really nice original one, with excellent chromes, good perspex, and even the lining isn't bad. The fibreglass looks a bit "hairy" through the paint in places, but nothing too bad. https://i.postimg.cc/q7DY18Zz/IMG-4531.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/fbqF8xgk/IMG-4532.jpg https://i.posti...

In future, grind the end of the valve stems and get yourself into the available range of shims, as you will have to do this all over again once the gaps start to close up.

Either way, you did better than you would have done on the steps of an Isle of Man hotel.

But you didn't win a TT, mind.

Any of the Usual Suspects going ?
May be able to help one of you with a ticket.
PM me.

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...