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Good day can anyone help i keep on getting fuel overflowing out of the carb. i have set the floats to the specified distances of 7/16 shut and 1 inch open. it started overflowing one day on a drive and flooded the engine. have bought a rebuild kit with new valves but this doesnt solve the problem an...

Just designing my 4/71 inlet matching plate and looking at pop off valves.

Does anyone know if i really need them and if so where they can be purchaced from in this fair country.

Goood day Looking for an electric water pump as my supercharger pulley doesnt like the bloody mechanical one sticking out the front of the engine. Does anyone know of a good reliable pump to use. had a bit of a look but there are wuite a few around and im not suere about some of the quality. Chops

im fairly certain they are holes rather than slots. I have access to a milling machine so i can just make up a matching plate for the charger. Another question. pop off valves. from what i gather they are built into the manifold to release dangerous pressure if the engine backfires. are they essenti...

Cheers Tony

£12 donated! A great price for such a wealth of info!

Rock on

Chops

they are standard cast pistons

3.720" / 94.5mm bore]

rings are

Bore:3.7"[94mm] Comp: 1.2mm/1.5mm Oil: 3mm

well the static compression ratio is 9.35:1 on standard pistons. my cam is an erson hi flow IH 228. (dur dur lift lift = 228 296 .315 .504). from what i gather as long as i have a fuel with high enough octane i can keep detonation down, so maybe mixing a little avgas with tesco 99 will help. The car...

also is it more efficient to lower my static CR and run the charger faster or keep CR at 9.35 and run the charger slower??

i was looking at runing about 13-14psi

this is probably aimed at topcat just about to hopefully grab myself a 4/71 blower and slap it on a 4.6 rover v8. with an extra headgasket my compression ratio will become ~7.49:1 this will be perfect but without having much experience in the game i dont know roughly what speed i need to run her at....

After the lovely perry hath convinced me to cuck a little gas into my engine does anyone know what parts i will need and what best to look for on a very modest budget. Also if anyone actually has any of these parts weather they would want to part with them for some cash. the specs are edelbrcok 1410...

yeah hopefully the track will be a tad kinder when you go back!
LSD should be going in this week and stronger clutch will be along with the new pay packet.

Also looks like i might have to give a bit of gas a go......... damn you perry!

Brilliant

Do you know if that will fit in the standard 2wd lt77 bell housing

haha brilliant!

Good photo. hadn't seen any pics from yesterday. might have to update the profile pic if thats alright Ian.

cant wait till the next one.

Just come back from the pod and after having some good runs my clutch decided to start giving up and slipping on burnouts and launches. Im about the chuck in an LSD so i think i might need a stronger clutch. anyone have any ideas of a stronger clutch that will still fit in an LT77/sd1 bell housing. ...