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I agree, i'm sure if the disco had decent tyres on it would have found it much easier than my classic. The other two vehicles we used that day were a disco 1 and a Mitsu L200, both with Insa Turbo mud tyres on, they had less trouble than I did in the end. It wasn't a feature as such, just a...

Excellent!! :-) The pic in my Avatar is from a Duck shoot in the Severn Valley. A couple of guys turned up in recently purchased Disco 4's and RR Sports and the shoot captain said "we'll use that classic out there, I don't want any of that new rubbish getting stuck down there", they looked...

I saw something in the Range Rover Register mag about a survey that was done on what the best vehicle was to turn up at a shoot in and a Classic came out on top :-)

Thanks for letting me know Mike. It's interesting that you were still getting almost up to temp in traffic. I think i'm going to try another stat (number 3) and see if that makes any difference. When I saw an improvement before, I had changed the stat and removed the fan at the same time, so...

Finally got my Rangie back onto LPG! After doing an engine upgrade\swap, upgrading the Vapouriser and fitting a Blos LPG Carb, I couldn't get it to work due to an electrical issue. Sorted the issue the night before last, adjusted the vapouriser and Blos yesterday and now, approx 3k miles later...

I will be interested to hear how much difference this has made to your running temp Mike, i'm still struggling with mine and contemplating thermostat number 3. With the first one in, the needle wasn't even on the gauge. After changing it, the needle is about a third up the gauge, but my heater...

whiteline make some. if you google whiteline anti roll bar a few uk suppliers will come up. I think it was these guys that I called about them before: Whiteline At the time there weren't any in the country so there was a bit of a lead time on them. I plan on ordering some after xmas. I've seen...

Rover V8 Engines, Parts and Services from V8 Tuner is good and very helpfull over the phone. I also bought some parts from John Eales, both by going to his workshop and over the phone, here is his website: Home page he probably has more RV8 experience than anybody. www.realsteel.co.uk were...

I had a layer of crap that colour on the inside of my engine bay, over various bits before i swapped my engine. Turned out to be the rad cores disintegrating so had it re-conditioned. I think the cores were causing a lot of dust that colour which was coating anything oily as there was oil and...

I saw that on ebay, there seems to be more and more of these "optimistic" RRC adverts popping up nowadays doesn't there! My mate's old Blue Softdash keeps cropping up on ebay for sale at Douglas Motors for nearly £9k I think it was. He only sold it for approx £4k a few years ago, it was mint...

No, didn't test it cos they're only cheap so just put another new one in. I did drain the system from the bottom hose to try and avoid getting too much coolant on top of the valley gasket and on the dizzy and make a mess, but you could prob just undo the top hose at the rad end, empty that out...

Thermostat stuck open. I've just had to change mine due to my new engine running too cold and the faulty stat was brand new. After changing it, it's closer to normal temp, but it's still running a little cool so i've removed my viscous fan now too.

Yes you can, that's another option. My father-in-law has done that on his softdash and it sounds nice, although still fairly quiet, but it's tricky for me to judge as mine's fairly loud. Does mean he's kept his Cat for MOT time though of course.

I used to have a complete rimmer bros stainless system on my '90 classic when it was 3.9, which always sounded ok, but i started having trouble with it leaking. Centre box went first, so removed it (sounded great :)). Then i ended up getting the manifolds replaced under lifetime warranty...

Yes, of course it is :) I just thought why not make it look nice under there while doing the upgrade. It's not quite finished yet as i'm in the process of re-fitting the lpg components.

Got a new MOT for the classic with 0 advisories. That never happens, must be something wrong lol

Nothing wrong with rubber hoses! Mine had been on 21 years and were still functioning as intended. They just looked like crap, so I replaced with silicone when I replaced the engine, I just fancied making it look nice and a bit different to the average rangey classic :-)

I stuck with the v belts when upgrading to 4.6 to keep it original looking, so it wouldn't be so obvious it's had an engine change. Also because it would have meant more faffing about and i needed to get the engine swapped asap. I know the serpentine front gives a slight improvement, but it's...

I have a silicone top hose from here: ACT Performance Products - your source for TVR upgrades, components and performance accessories. Didn't bother with the bottom hose at the time due to cost and the fact it's not as noticeable down the bottom of the engine bay. I would be interested to...

mine works well and de-mists my 1990 classic. It's not instant though, does take a few mins normally