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It depends on which old style engine you have. The keyway on the cranks that suit an interim cover is longer to pick up on the oil pump/cam chain cog and pulley. 3.9's and tvr's with interim front covers have this longer woodruf key. A longer slot for the key can be machined into the crank nose of e...

Unless you are torqueing the head bolts up then the fire rings will not fully compress and will prevent the rest of the gasket sealing fully.

On an interim type front cover (A cover with a distributor hole and crank driven oil pump) you can bung both of the original oil cooler take off's and use a sandwich plate for the cooler instead. But don't somehow use the original pipes to bung up the holes unless you cut off the long stub with the ...

Are you sure you have Crane anti pump up lifters fitted and not the Rhoads bleed down type ?

When I did the cross bolting I used shim stock & carefully milled the caps on one side so that there was no distortion of the main tunnels. When the crank was installed the crank span freely with no tight spots . When I did it I just used shims on the starter side of the caps. (3-4 thou) I didn't d...

I stripped the engine & drilled tapped the mains for cross bolting, amongst my new RV8 parts I have was a cam, specs of 200 @50" & lift 433" in & ex'. so I used that. For a road car to smoke about in, I thought that would work quite well.... When you cross bolted the mains, did you have the block c...

Are both engines the same bore diameter and are the piston ring grooves the same also.

4.6 sump and oil pickup needs to be changed to a 3.9 type also.

To answer your first question, when a tensioner is in the system , the alternator is normally fixed in one position and the tensioner takes up any slack. Ideally the tensioner should be on the returning belt side of the crank pulley and not on the pull side. If positioned on the pull side, the pull ...

I'd be surprised if after only 30 seconds the valve guides are flooded sufficiently to cause lots of smoke. Maybe at full pelt with rocker covers on they may get flooded. Have you checked the oil level in the sump? Is the sump a standard SD1 item with matching dip stick? The worst case scenario is a...

Maybe the R380 being later went metric ???

Real steel sell both. One for a rover box ( in the rover section ) and one for a T5 box BY260120M. (in the ford section)

I've just looked at a set of AE rings (3.9 Rover) and the top ring is a plain ring with AE marked on 1 side and the second ring is chamfered with TOP AE marked on the side opposite to the chamfer suggesting that the chamfer goes downwards. The absence of the word TOP on the top ring suggests that ei...

The chamfer must go up according to the attached chart. This helps force the ring against the cylinder wall during the combustion stroke. But the markings on your rings are confusing so further comments from experts needed I would suggest.

Why is he not using the amp that the DLM normally activates to drive the MSD via the white trigger wire? The amp will be more reliable driving the msd unit compared to driving the primary circuit of a coil.