3.5 V8 Rebuild

btw this should be on my thread not marks, sorry dude lol

Any idea where this goes chap's?

looks like a starter ground strap or a grounding strap of some sort

fett said:

btw this should be on my thread not marks, sorry dude lol

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:hijacked::lol:

Thor1950 said:

looks like a starter ground strap or a grounding strap of some sort

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I know that much lol but from what ti where?

discomark10 said:

I know that much lol but from what ti where?

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If it is a starter grounding strap starter to chassis

Ahh had a thought it may be that... couldn't see where it goes

IT'S ALIVE!!!!!!!!!

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I am still waiting for parts for mine

Finally figured out where all the wires go!
Got the dizy in the right place, checked to see if I was on the right part of the cycle and started her up! got about 25psi oil pressure on 1k revs, and about 50 when giving it a few more revs.
Rover v8 1st start. - YouTube

Also got my gauge pod in, had to make a stand for it to make it at the right angle to see from the drivers seat.

sounds good bud, but how did you do the cam break in procedure with no rad?

haven't done it yet, just wanted to check it was ok lol. once its all plumbed in ill do it.

ahh , I thought once it was running it was bad to stop it again/drop revs etc etc

^^^ agreed

Once you fire it up you want to be straight up to 2-2500k area for 20 minutes

Was awkward with mine cos it didn't want to run so smooth for the first 30 seconds or so.

Don't think it will have ####ed your cam or anything but its not ideal, high loads on the cam at low rpms so that's why you want to avoid it until cam is surfaced/hardened

Yea I'll do it today. To be honest I thought it would have trouble starting and running lol

I was ****ting it at first key turn stage!

at least you lot can let the ecu set up the fueling, I am gonna be tryna balance carb and timing while keeping it at the break in revs- thats if it starts lol

Yeah now that's impossible, carb guys really do need to know their ****.

I guess "plenty rich" is the key to firing up and getting that cam broke in good.

Have you got a known good set of carbs to run it up on?

Come to think of it, don't even remember how I went about the dizzy timing after that rebuild in August, must have just gone for TDC and a nudge, cos I think I got the timing light out after the cam was broke in...

I set mine to -4deg tdc on the crank indicator then set the no.1 ht point (done a quick turn over test with the gun to make sure it was about right.. seemed ok (couldn't see that well tbh) and BOOM it fired right up.