best to let sleeping dogs ............................... All mates again. By the way - and please don't get too cheesed off - Colin has had a lot of interest from the Defender2 and Pistonheads guys - they are much more into the modern Twisted/Nene look. On here things are more 'traditional'...

Sorry Fett Next time I stoke any fires I will send you a PM On a more serious note is anyone doing L2B this coming Sunday? A few of the V8 boys from hampshire, surrey, sussex and kent are meeting at Pease Pottage Services at the base of the M23 at 9am for a chinwag and a bacon sarnie before...

Yes, he was very rude and obnoxious and the main culprit - along with Colin himself. If we all still at school those two would be suspended - you and I would have 1000 lines and a detention.

Hello Guys hope you are all well. I caused a bit of a commotion in the week by putting a thread on here about my mate Colin's blinged-up 90 which he has just completed. Localised skirmishing broke out, and I have to say, thinking the respondents from here were joking, I duly stoked up...

could be a fuel quality/contamination problem I notice you live in the middle of nowhere - speak to someone else locally who drives a petrol car and see if they have been having problems

Hi Guys please see advert in parts and accessories - fantastic 4.3 BIG VALVE available!!!!!

Hi Guys I am in the process of overhauling a genuine TVR 4.3 V8 engine - (engine code47A43P****) The engine came from a Griffith 430 BV so has the biggest valves available, double springs, and originally had the wild TVR 885 cam - CR is 10.25 - has pocketed HC pistons etc. TVR originally...

coil pack, injector - needs fault code reader

protect iceberg diesel............................. you poor man! get yourself a carb rebuild kit for a few quid and start from there

If it goes into the red immediately you switch on the ignition - before you start the motor - then you need a new sender If it warms up normally but just keeps rising then it is just a resistance issue - I had same problem again, though you need a new sender - you need the very early range...

it is the cam - makes a big difference in all engines. Lovely with auto box

if you think that's bad-ass look at the item on the bottom of the page on this link from Mr Eales Inlet Manifolds - J E Developments Home of the Rover V8

Derek Allfrey Land Rovers

No - if I remember correctly the ones made for the project were forged - whether any remain I do not know. I will ask John when I speak to him next week. In any case he has the cranks for his race motors specially heat treated and 'tuftrided' and cross-drilled to make them lighter so they rev...

Hi mark glad you are enjoying your new motor - as I said before the Kent is so lovely with an auto gearbox Once you have run it in, 1000 miles or so, as I am sure Richard and Frieda at Turners told you, change the oil and then you can give it the beans - overtaking pull from 40 to 70 in...

well- sort-of - the crank, and therefore the 4.2- litre displacement were direct from the project the bore is the same as the 3.9 Funny how things come full circle - 25 years ago John was working on a 4.2 V8 turbodiesel for the Range Rover - now they have a 4.4 V8 diesel as their star...

I believe I am right in saying.......... Bore and stroke for 4.2 same as eventual LSE engine block has all sorts of strengthening bits done as it was intended to run on diesel with a turbo so would have been 15.1 compression ratio or something mad like that. His 4.5 engine is a mildly...

Iceberg block is from Mr Eales - who develped the 4.2 for Landrover, and later the 4.5 for the original Dakar racers. He has a few stashed in his workshop. His 5.2 engine is legend - I put one in my TVR Griffith - still going strong. He still has his road car(1990 RRC) with all the dakar bits...

It needs a service, tune-up, timing check and a visit to an lpg specialist

/ H180 gives 20 bhp and 20lbs/ft of torque over standard with much better throttle response - so about 10%. I had one in my 3.9 auto discovery and it was lovely lovely lovely.