The V8 Owners Forum -

How decent is the spark from the king-lead? You say you have 12v and a non ballast (12v) coil - which means your coil is correct? Even if you have a ballast coil, you can try hard-jumping 12v direct to the coil+ to eliminate all wiring and the 12v boost wire from the starter (or a relay) - dont leav...

doesn't appear to be anything special to me.

Had considered adding air suspension to the dakar, but wondered if there's any difficulty with insurance, as it's a fairly fundamental (if simple) change.

to the o/p - i assume you are aware of the ACT plenum for the Dax/Westie:

Hi Chaps - can i copy these photos and put them on my Rover V8 manifold archive (the mez site listed on page 1)

Even as someone who sells 72mm plenums, I would have to ask why you think you need a 72mm plenum?
What other supporting work have you carried out? Do you still run an air flow meter?

(I make the 72mm plenums) As described above, you need to centralise the throttle plate inside the bore. There's two screws that clamp it, the ends of the screws are flared apart to retain them - you may be able to loosen them enough without squashing the threads back together in order to be able to...

water in the electrics/can bus?

6 Years later - time for an update. Yep, Seriosly - this car has been parked up that long since failing it's IVA - due to the owner having house moves etc. Had time to get the engine running up to temperature and adjust the fueling to around 14.0afr - where it idles the best, any leaner and it seems...

Good to see the fast car magazine article - that presumably was the one he referenced in his notes on my manifold archive.

Has phpbb evolved from how it used to be, where the minute you made any customisations your BB effectively became an unpatchable and therefore unsupportable nightmare? I lost interest in mine after doing all the customisations and then not being able to patch it - well, not without re-doing all the ...

I pop in every week or two - it used to be every day.
Pistonheads is my only regular forum. I only use facebook for local info and chat - otherwise it seems to be a big big echo chamber.
Be nice to meet up at the pod again - how's perry's motor doing?

stevieturbo wrote:Other than there being no risk of the Evans boiling over and pishing out, I really cannot see any benefit from using it from an actual cooling perspective.

Isn't it flammable or something too?

dont waste your time emailing anyone in the motortrade - you need to pick the phone up.

I think in the early days of Megasquirt Bruce plumbed several meters of vacuum tube into a working system to prove that it made no difference.

I was reading a post over on pistonheads the other day which compared the parts inside the varios rover v8 engines. I cant find it right now. It's a Kent cam iirc. dug out this lost page on the wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20081204160147/http://www.btinternet.com/~jon.wolfe/kentcamda...