fett
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And the best news is it has a virtually new engine from landrover in it , probably the lowest milage engine I have ever had in my life!!!!
Stuart did a great job tuning and balencing the carbs up for me but we ran into a bit of a problem when we came to fit the later elec dizzy so I would like the benifit of you experiences guys.
The driver gear from the later elecronic dizzy does not fit on the bottom of the old points dizzy (which works very well) or match the oil pump gears which we found out after taking out the old one :doh:
anyway I was going to lpg this car after I rebuild a motor for it but the beauty is now I dont need to, however as far as we cant work out how to fit the later dizzy we will need to change the oil pump parts but I really have great oil pressure as the pump is nearly new (40psi at slow idle 50 at faster idle) so I would rather not swap these bits out for an aging used oil pump even if we face it off. I dont have mega bucks for a brand new pump as this is my 4th v8 (yes I still have 4 Im addicted)
just to throw another spanner in the works I was going to fit a sepentine front cover and belt system to the motor as I want to run an a/c pump too but again I dont really want to change to oil pump parts which have done loads of miles there either.
also I do some offroading now so I dont want black boxes on the wing for the electronics (luminition???) and I have heard mallory are ****e!!
So the real question (other than when is fett going to shut the fook up ) is:
1.can you go to electronic dizzy any other other way???
2. is there any other way of mounting an a/c compressor on 1972 3.5 with su's? that doesnt mean moving the alternator etc or fitting a serp front end?
Stuart did a great job tuning and balencing the carbs up for me but we ran into a bit of a problem when we came to fit the later elec dizzy so I would like the benifit of you experiences guys.
The driver gear from the later elecronic dizzy does not fit on the bottom of the old points dizzy (which works very well) or match the oil pump gears which we found out after taking out the old one :doh:
anyway I was going to lpg this car after I rebuild a motor for it but the beauty is now I dont need to, however as far as we cant work out how to fit the later dizzy we will need to change the oil pump parts but I really have great oil pressure as the pump is nearly new (40psi at slow idle 50 at faster idle) so I would rather not swap these bits out for an aging used oil pump even if we face it off. I dont have mega bucks for a brand new pump as this is my 4th v8 (yes I still have 4 Im addicted)
just to throw another spanner in the works I was going to fit a sepentine front cover and belt system to the motor as I want to run an a/c pump too but again I dont really want to change to oil pump parts which have done loads of miles there either.
also I do some offroading now so I dont want black boxes on the wing for the electronics (luminition???) and I have heard mallory are ****e!!
So the real question (other than when is fett going to shut the fook up
) is:1.can you go to electronic dizzy any other other way???
2. is there any other way of mounting an a/c compressor on 1972 3.5 with su's? that doesnt mean moving the alternator etc or fitting a serp front end?
