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This is good work freddynav and is in line with my thoughts on retaining oil pressure to the rockers . A plain bearing needs a bit of pressure to operate , more than it needs high flow. The thing is most of us probly dont have either the nouse or the access to the nessesary machinery , and paying to...

Picture is worth a thousand words

Its an early rope seal block, 3.5 , converted to lip seal , shot peined and polished rods, 10.5:1 comp (fly cut pistons )hyd fast road cam , vernier double row camchain/sprockets , efi valves ,bronze guides , head and main stud kits , rod bolts ( arp )tall rotor kit and mg spring in oil pump and the...

Yeah , I like power bulges . Location is a shame , I could have offered you a edelbrock performer manifold and holley 390 vac sec , I have had them on an engine for years and it has never been run so as brand new

How are you going to fit that under the hood, I know you can fit dcoe and keep it all inside

I have new shafts and FM steel rockers that are pretty wobbly . The shafts must be ok as they are a firm fit in the rocker posts . I havnt used them yet , thinkin I might just get some roller rocker /shaft/post assy , not that the engine really needs them , bucket list thing, and they cant hurt. I h...

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Ian Anderson wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 02, 2020 9:17 pm

Electric water pump?
http://www.super7thheaven.co.uk/rover-v ... ater-pump/

Ian

Or even an electric motor driving existing pump

I remember reading somewhere a peep had overheating issues on a serp motor. The guy had done mods as you want to and indeed got the whole thing running .....completely overlooking that the water pump was now running backwards .....so , no , you cant run the pump backwards

Looks like a factory cam to me ,not out of that engine but a earlier 3.5 or 3.9 dizzy motor

What sort of gear box are you using? I have a toyota w57 with a 10.5" land cruiser clutch plate and rover pressure plate .

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zg62q23y3ogqkun/rocker%20arm.jpg?dl=0 I'm not sure that is the cause of the problem but what do you think I should do about this? I didn't replace the rocker assembly's during the build. 1. Just ignore it - do nothing 2. Replace a single rocker arm 3. Replace the entire si...

aspira wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 18, 2020 7:46 pm

Cliff was exactly right the notches appear at the front and back and are therefore in the correct places. The problem turned out to be a sticking relief valve that someone did mention - thank you!

Actually , that was me ....both times Im pleased you got that part sorted

Thanks garrycol and DaveEFI , I guess the thing to do is match the port to manifold as best as one can and go for a bigger bore system after that. IMG_20200124_124258.jpg Makes me think tho ,not so good pic of the exhausts (engine is a 3.5 I have parked in favour of the 3.9 serp motor ) but I had de...

Getting to the exhaust stage of the engine build. I have (came with the engine ) a pair of cast dual outlet manifolds ,how good are these .....just that building a set of headers is a bit of a wriggle . I have big valve heads, ported stage 3ish and will have a fast road cam kent m228 . Are the cast ...