The 'E' Type Forum

Not sure what more you were expecting! The same tooling was used for the 3.8 cars but as those tools wore out the panels gradually changed shape. So a new repair wing from Jaguar in 1965 would not be a good fit on an original bonnet without fettling. You can be fairly sure the bonnet is original if ...

This topic covers what we know about bonnet originality: viewtopic.php?p=137169#p137169

These downloadable guides from the Forum Knowledge Base tell you everything about Stromberg: Stromberg Overhaul Guide (74 pages!): https://www.dropbox.com/s/clmwrlgonv8gxya/Buckeye%20Stromberg2.pdf?dl=1 Stromberg manual (Leyland): https://www.dropbox.com/s/kd8urr3l411dhdv/Stromberg%20Leyland.pdf?dl=...

"A British man has been killed and his wife seriously injured after their vintage Jaguar E-Type careered off a road and flipped after the couple had attended a vintage car show in Italy. The car spun out before leaving the road and overturning onto its side, suffering extensive damage. The 72-year-...

All beige with the hold down straps trimmed in green leather. Check out the red OTS here: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2006

A true 'straight through' silencer design is a single perforated tube from one end to the other surrounded by fibrous wadding much like the E-Type's original resonators. Drilling the baffles will alter the sound and allow freer flow of exhaust gases but no idea what affect it will have on performanc...

You can go with a full mild steel system (P D Gough in Nottingham have original patterns) and they do sound superb. I had a mild steel exhaust on my Elan S4 and it lasted from 1995 and is still going strong I believe. Rust is not a problem on a classic car which will only have selective use and a mi...

The wiring loom should have two wires going to the Otter switch, one of which (black) is the earth. This is a 3.8 which has the Otter switch on the top of the header, 4.2 cars have it on the front of the header tank. https://i.imgur.com/j8Szd1E.jpg You can see the two spade connectors on the Otter i...

Excellent news! Thanks for the heads up Chris.

If you have tubular manifolds you need to fit a heat shield to protect the frames otherwise you will bubble the paint. They also produce a lot of noise including an annoying pinging sound on tick-over. More importantly the cause a torque dip between 2,250 and 2,750 rpm, the very point in an E-Type w...

YouTube links starting with https generally won't display but if you change it to http it usually will. I think it also depends on what the clips author has their preferences set to. In any event a YouTube clickable link will work.

More importantly can you give us a review of the product to help anyone else who wants to follow in your path!

Unfortunately for those of us who do not use a VPN to hide behind or get round controls, David’s link goes nowhere interesting - just a thread of purple screens. "Nowhere interesting" - really? :banghead: All the information is in the text not in the purple picture eater: The chrome finisher assemb...

Read this first: https://forum.etypeuk.com/viewtopic.php?p=35881#p35881 You can then input the part number into this decoder: https://www.decode.fyi/ and you will get the technical spec of the part. This document is also a good resource: Jaguar Nuts, Bolts and Fasteners specs: https://www.dropbox.co...

The VPN issue is a sideshow; the critical resource for the forum is its IP and that's embodied in the data and images posted by everyone. If we choose to give ownership of that IP away to Third Party sites to host that data for free we loose control and become hostage to fortune to their inevitable...

Joy of joys, the Government have now decided to ban or limit the use of VPN's by everyone. I have employed some 11 year olds to devise a work around! Smart DNS or Proxy Servers I think. Whatever happened to parent responsibility? Mobile phones cost upward of £500 so it must be parents gifting these ...

Pedal box - Dove Grey BS381C-694 (same colour used on Stone Guard frame, radiator tie bars, master cylinders bracket, brake hose support brackets) Dunlop bellows rear plate: unpainted alloy (note PT - pressure tested - yellow stamp) https://i.imgur.com/igH9fiX.jpeg Linkage: mix of cadmium plate and ...

No need to delete the old one, just upload the new one with the correct spec.

How did you do that??? I can fix my car with my eyes closed, but this?!?!? There was no way of removing the metadata stored with your photo so I went old school. I opened your photo and took a photo of it (actually a screen grab). Adjusted the size to meet Forum requirements and saved it, hence no ...