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Thanks Marki I am going to use the hotwire system and do as V8 kid has done. I have been asured by the jason who supplied it all to me the chip is a mark adams and there was no lambda sesnors fitted. So all thats left for me to do is open up the trumpet base to match the tp. it will be interesting t...

Finaly have the engine in the stag ( 4ltr griff breathing through twin plenum). The dyno went up to 248bhp 280lbs torque at 4700 and the engine dies. The flapper is at full scale deflection so am presuming the system gets to this point and then gives up. Looking at the graph i am presuming the engin...

i saw 140 on the gps that probably as fast as the car will go. has the aerodynamics of a house brick

kiwicar wrote:Is the mad blond in the pasanger seat of the stag with the boot rack anything to do with you? seems to be having allot of fun, don't often see a grin like that on a passenger, normally the driver .
Mikke

hi mike
meet the wife......Think i heard a complete lap of Oh Sh*t... Oh F**K...

katanaman wrote:says vid is no longer available:(

try again mate. it just opened ok for me.

we come in at 30 sec
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NoDEeRmDu2M

Hi guys. Is it advisable to use a gasket paste with tin head gaskets? i have just purchased a crower 50232 along with recomended springs. i am a little concerned of the best springs to use. Leave the original double valve springs in place or replace them with the single crower springs,i believe the ...

please bear with me gents i only want to do this build once!! I have stripped the heads off and discovered shims(about 25thou) under each rocker shaft pedestal. what is the purpose of these? looking at the cam shaft timing the cam sprocket indentation does not line up with the wood ruf key in the cr...

the engine numbers correspond to the tvr index and also match the log book
47a40p3567g

have just purchased a tvr 4ltr griff engine. The engine numbers correspond to a griff engine however is there an easy way to prove i have a compression ratio of 9.8 to 1 instead of the range rover 9.35 to 1. Also the heads are stamped etc8622 i cant find any reference to these numbers. Finaly is the...

Can any one recomend a good off the shelf system to do away with the afm. Vems, gems , mega squirt etc. i dont want to be messing about soldering i want to buy a system all ready to bolt on to a twin plenum 4ltr tvr engine. Appreciate then it will need to be set up on a rolling road.
shaun.

Hi all and merry christmas! First of all what i have is a standard vitesse engine with fast road cam (from je- australia) 321dizzy set to give 20degrees advance.( tried other settings and they all from 20 to 32 limited the high reving. from 4500 to 5500). twin plenum through larger diameter afm and ...

How much of a problem are the liners? is it possible to quantify say out of 100?
Yes it is that engine.
Shaun.

hi Kevin
Thankyou for the quick response. Reading the forum posts has alarmed me with ref slipped liners. I take it a 2001 4.6 would not have top hat liners?
how much of a problem is this?
The engine is a mint low mileage for just over 1K.
Shaun

about to buy a 4.6 from a 2001 range rover. can i retrofit the sd1 front end with cam shaft to this engine. If i can, its to replace my standard twin plenum vitesse engine giving 220. with the right cam ( please recomend) and a hot wire system (currently using flapper type with the rover tec ecu and...