The V8 Owners Forum -

The oil filter looks like it's quite low down on the engine, same with the oil pump. I can't see how the oil would ever drain out of these? I can see if I have a loose pick up the pump would such air...very strange. I think it's time to get the sump off (hopefully I can do this with the engine in th...

I filled the filter. It was running fine with the new filter, probably drove about 5 miles before decided to fix the carbs. That's the strange thing. My previous engine could stand for about 6 months and still bring the oil light off on cranking! I have the geared starter motor as well so it spins q...

Just fitted a new (which I repair kitted) pair of carbs and the car wouldn't start (oil light wouldn't extinguish on the starter). Whipping off the rocker cover seems to revel that no oil is arriving at the top on cranking. I've never had a car loose it's oil prime before. It did fit a new oil filte...

I've just bought a set from fast lane, yet to arrive, the spec. looks very similar to Magencor but 1/2 the price, and made in the UK! In theory the spiral wound core leads should last longer than the carbon ones. I think there is hopefully better build quality on the more expensive wires, and they s...

I just bought some Mr Gasket 3677 ones, ebay search "mr gasket 3677" they also do more expensive ones but these fit 8mm wires perfectly.

I'll take some more photographs and some measurements. The valves do look like they are set further back in the seats for some reason.

photo on the manifold page:

http://www.mez.co.uk/ms12.html

Guys, We got my spare heads I was given with the car off the shelf and noticed that they were different! One has a X stamped after the part number and has a noticeably larger volume, the valves are closer together with less land in-between! The the same SD1 size inlet and exhaust valves are in both ...

any info on swapping 4lt v8 from 540 e34 into 316 compact e36.thinking bout doing this for winter project.engine mounts crossmember clearances etc thanks. :) Think there's a major problem with sump clearance with R&P steering/cross members. The E39 6 has R&P steering - the V-8 a steering box. IIRC,...

ChrisJC wrote:Ah yes, but you could do a similar calculation on BHP, and work out that an RV8 is twice the power of a bike engine, so two bike silencers should be OK....?

Chris.

But I think the bike uses two as well?

that's a small displacement for a V8 which has to still overcome all the friction of 8 pistons, at higher revs! Would love to see one! Presumably you would have to go solid lifters to get the rpm increase...?

Bikes do rev to above 2x the rpm of the V8. How big is the bike engine? Probably flow wise they might be about the same volume of gas per second?

How do these work without vibrating the engine apart?

Coops wrote:will ask for you mate,
i think gelmonkey said they do XXXL

Happy to send a cheque for a prototype! Quite fancy it for the next MOT, will make the garage boys chuckle! I like the irony in the punch line on the back for us "larger" males

out of interest whats the biggest size im going to have to order? you can PM me if you want, as we will need to ask the supplier if they stock that size or if they can get hold of it etc, no point you paying for something and we cant get it now is there :wink: Well I could do with a XXXL size, the ...