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I've completed the tear down of my driveline and I need some advice on a couple of things. 1) condition of the flywheel, all the way round the mating surface there are cracks in the surface, is this usual? Can this be skimmed? 2) Can someone point me to a removal proceedure for the rear crank seal a...

I have no experience of the Holey but the facet is working fine for me. It does have to be mounted correct ideally vertical with the outflow higher than the inflow otherwise vapour / air can get trapped in the pump which will significantly shorten it's service life.

I can highly recommend Mintex Performance 1144 pads, best run with grooved disks but not essential. I have been staggered by the stopping power from high speed.they are quite dusty though.

Could be so many things - a couple of which 1. Pivot ball has pushed through the arm due to fatigue 2. Arm has fractured at the pivot. Thanks for the replies. I have come to the conclusion it's probably one of the above. Regardless, as it's not the cable looks like I have to take half the car apart...

Just trying to work out what might be broken before I start tearing everything apart as its a huge job to get the clutch out of my car. I cannot get the clutch to disengage, basically it feels like the pedal is not attached to anything. Its a cable not hydraulic, cable is not broken as the fork move...

Just a thought but couldn't you do this with a BMW V8 engine and keep it in the family as it were. What's you objective with the build? Drag racing, show car or just for the hell of it? Might help guide you're decision and any advice. 900bhp is not going to be cheap with any engine, then you have dr...

My Cobra has sidepipes, on over run I get BIG pops along with foot long flames shooting out of the ends of each pipe! :D :) very cool, me likes. Think I'm good for now then. Taking it to a 2hr track session Monday evening for another shakedown. Will report back then. Might also try and get it on a ...

Popping and cracking is because SU's run lean on overrun. Some have a small spring loaded valve in the butterfly to solve this issue. Chris. Thanks Chris. It's actually running an Edelbrock 4 barrel, but could be a similar situation. Is this something I need to do something about or consider it as ...

Happy bunny today, the car went straight through the MOT no bother. Not bad for a 35yr old with an engine swap. Emissions test was the biggest surprise:- C0 = 0.19 (max pass 4.5), last year 1.774 HC = 106 ppm (max pass 1200) , last year 475ppm Cleaning the carb out has definitely improved things, ho...

harvey wrote:I think you'll find 11A is SD1 auto, and that CR was on the Vitesse engines.

The Vitesse engine number would be 31A......according to 'the lists' as an auto with 9.75:1 CR

this is why its confusing

I know this question has been asked many times, and I know there are numerous lists out there (I have read many of them) but I still cant identify excatly what my engine is or where it came from because it doesn't match up with any of the lists. The original builder of the car claims that it is an 3...

Just another thought on this, prompted by reading some other posts. What fuel should I be using? Since I've had the car I have been running it on standard 95 unleaded (usually from Esso or BP), should I be using premium 97+ octane unleaded?

If you are using the car on the track I guess you want to get the best out of the engine, personally I'd ditch the foam filter and fit a 3x14 K+N filter. You might have to fit a 'dropbase' in order to get the bonnet shut, try to keep the top of the filter as far away from the carb as possible. From...

What colour is the exhaust smoke when you blip the throttle? Maybe someone has fitted the weakest piston springs which is holding the carb in its weak mode, i.e. the rods are not lifting at all. take a look at the springs under the pistons that lift the rods, the standard ones are orange which will...

The mod to remove the choke plate support looks a bit 'brutal' :D I have done this sort of mod on a few carbs, I don't just cut a slot out but remove all of the support and blend it in at the radius. Anyway the mod to your carb will still help the primary side of the carb breath better which is goo...