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Sidecar, Well I did the pressure test on a hot engine. So pressure would drop due to air in the system cooling down. Yes I could also do it when cold, will do no harm. But perhaps then the crack is closed. Thanks for the tip. RPI shows off with a lot of knowledge on there web-page.. one would think ...

Yes, I've changed the oil Valvoline Vr1... :( After 200 miles completely gone. What a bl@@dy gasket can do. I changed it with cheap oil to flush it later on with added detergent. No fumes for now. Also a cooling system pressure test of 15PSI kept for 1/2 hour without loss. So hope that the water sta...

Well I have a "group A" sump side wing type (I think they call it)and a quite big oil cooler and tubes.
So i need a little bit more oil unfortunatelly.

Hello Devon, Nice setup you have there. Twinturbo ? Well when leaking I trow away again 15 liters of oil. Ok, must be more like 12liter but need 3 cans of 5 liter.. So i suppose it also made the crack case generating vapor? I will also do a coolant pressure test to see if the pressure drops in the c...

Yes I have to change the oil for sure.... But that was the dilemma. Putting 15 l new oil to see that again water is dribbling in. So mainly question is. When water is somewhere coming into the crank case. Where would it come from? Liners 100%? I must say this is the first time I have this type of pr...

Hello, I’ve got a rover v8 3.9Liter. which was an early upgrade from 3.5 with 93.5mm bore. Some time ago I discovered that the engine was losing water. I also saw that some white fumes were coming out of the crack case. After removing the heads I could see some head gaskets in very bad condition. Co...

Marc, It's a GTDevelopment. I contacted John, but it seems not to be one of his engines. He has always put a number on the block front near the deck on the passenger side row. I can only see a date. But he gave me some advice and he's got a nice amount of performance parts on his Web-shop.. 8) But I...

Hello Mark, Aha..I've now reed the history of JE more in detail. So the founders were the builders of this engine probably. Yes I will give them a call. Thanks.. In the mean time I also measured the lift height and it was about 7.5mm at lifter +-. So 12mm at valve (1.6 ratio). Also here a picture of...

Hello All, I’m new to the forum, but I think all V8 specialist are here... I have got a Rover V8 3.9L engine with 4X2 Dellorto’s 45 on them out of a Replica. That's all a knew, up till recently when I opened the engine for replace head gasket.( I found water fumes coming out of crank case ventilatio...