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Hi which ford lump is that? a 302 or a 351W
Mike

There are a few posts on this site touching on this subject at the moment. :whs , a basic clean up is well worth it and a mild port to manifold match (may be not as far as a full gasket match and dont go too far into the port), and opening up the valve seat throat is well worth doing, don't "polish"...

most race authorities insist on seamless tubing for roll cages, square section is rarley seamless. interesting that they don't always insist the chassis is seamless! It always looks better if the roll cage is in round section.
Mike

that is what I have been working on all along, depends on the weight (hence postage) but works pretty well.
Mike

I am pretty sure Mr vizards first published book was on the porting of small block chevy heads. before he started on minis :) But the mini work is why so many of the heads he designed for the SBC have chembers the same shape as the 12g940 castings :? (oh and thst it is a good chamber shape :shock: )...

minorv8 I fully agree with the 35 to 40 thou figure but I understood it was to allow for rod elongation when the engine gets hot and rod stretch when the thing is reved hard, (all the stuff I have read says ally rods should use 50 to 65 thou for this reason). The other reason is to allow for variati...

I know it's an obvious one but is the fanbelt the right tension/ old and knackered/got oil/salt water on it? would be worth a check before you change the alternator.
Mike

Hi I dont know if anyone is still interestedbut Bottom end Kit $1450 postage $480 ooch that hurt :cry: import duty and Vat £259 still for what I got a total of about £1230 is not bad forged 383 crank, forged H-beam rods and Marhl forged flat top pistons, all ballanced and a full set of bearings. Mike

just been reading up and the cerbera engine is a 75deg bank angle as well, I think for a flat plane crank to work beyond a brief few runs then shaking itself to bits, you really need ballancers. I have a feeling the cadillac northstar/ Arora (nice engine) :twisted: engine and that fancy lexus V8 may...

it will only need a tandem/twin master cylinder and split system if it came from the factory with one, they came in mid 70's, a Viva probably pre dates the ruling.
Mike

Ian said "Or are they some wierd setup with springs to retract the pads off the disc? (Don't laugh they do exist!) " bonerville salt flar racers! go flat out for 4 miles on stuff the consistancy of ball bearings on carpet then hit pump the break peddle at 300mph while deploying a parachuteand try no...

mostly as above, however a few of detail points. 1 most dual plane forged cranks are non twist designs these days, cast cranks are cast to be in two plans so don't get twisted, forged cranks are now forged directly into their final shape. true 15 years ago they both were twisted, not now. 2 a twin p...

er... dual boot it because word, exel, and a thousand other packages only run under windows. Linux is not perfect, I did not say it was, again for somthings, ie surfing the web it is better than windows, not actually because it is better just no one writes spyware or viruses for it. If you havent no...

Is it just me, but if you want to reduce car usage can't you just stop issuing driving licences to every one who turns up for a test. Make it difficult to pass the test, then get cought drink driving then you get banned for life, get 12 points and get banned then start again and have to pass a test ...

Hi Gav just a sugestion, if its a fairly old pc, you could go the route of partitioning the disc, installing Linux and surfing under Linux and a suitable browser, then use windows boot for everything else. All the instructions are on the linux website. You could walk around being smug, 8) knowing yo...