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For the Head it SHOULD come free with a good tap from a rubber mallet but in the past on a triumph engine I needed to feed rope into the cylinders through the spark plug holes and then crank the engine over on the starter. The dizzy I would guess is the same as any dizzy, loosen off a bolt on...

Vs the paintman doors

Dunno if it's too late but I got a set of front and rear doors a couple weeks back from SP and the back one was okay but the front doors were very poor, skins not put on right, mounting holes for the hinges and door tops drilled in the wrong places and the welds sitting so proud that the...

If you still need shafts id reccomend contacting Jim at JRV8.

Did you have the timing chain off or remove the cam? Is there definitely fuel going to other 3 pots?

Rpi have always been more interested in selling expensive stuff in my experience, i use jrv8 cause its local and hes always been a decent guy, used real steel once and was very happy with them

As above drip oil into the cylinders and dont worry about the vaseline it disolves completely.... if your really worried get someone to keep the pump spinning while you turn the engine over and it will get the oil on everythi g

Speak to jim at jrv8 hed be able to advise you... if your happy to strip it down id say go for higher comp pistons i fotted rover sd1 vitesse 9.75:1 pistons... After that viper hurricane cam edelbrock/weber 500 kit and if theres change left over maybe flow the heads better

Its the modification part thats the tough bit like i phoned a few companies at that time and told them i had a 3.5 defender and they were like yea no bother 500 ish Told them i put the 3.5 in and i only got 2 or 3 quotes all about 4 -5 grand 0_0

Oh yea i forgot about that... tbf normally they arent quite as strict as they are supposed to be tends to depend on the guy testing it and how hes feeling... always book for late as possible on a friday when he wants to get home asap haha... just doing it to be on the safe side but in all...

Oh yea i forgot about that... tbf normally they arent quite as strict as they are supposed to be tends to depend on the guy testing it and how hes feeling... always book for late as possible on a friday when he wants to get home asap haha... just doing it to be on the safe side but in all...

Making it burn fuel and air more efficiently is prefferable to just throwing more fuel and air in bet it goes like a stabbed rat

I was asking him what way it works with me putting an 80's engine in a 1995 car like do i go by 80's rules and dont fit cats or do i treat it as a 1995 car which most people seem to say needs cats... he said it goes by the engine age but cause i dont know what it came from other than a 90/110 or...

Slight.... pulled the gearbox from the car and found that the chassis was scrap so ive gotten a new chassis and if you look at my thread on poverty iv gotten some shiny bits for yhe engine and a cam.... jim at jrv8 has told me i need an age certificate for the engine and if i bring him the block...

Only getting on landyzone now but cheers ill have a look now some reading material for a lazy day in work lol... bought the bits from the fella that makes the engines for those pilgrims so thats handy

Looks a good bit of kit cant wait to have a landy to put it in haha

This was the one jrv8 recomended think the difference between them power wise is negligable but offenhauser is meant to be for when space is restricted, i figured id have room for the edelbrock

Got more tat to bolt onto the injun if it ever gets finished

Great guy to deal with like rpi etc. Everything seems aimed at selling you a mallory dizzy and expensive ht leads but jim seems as if hes making a living out of his contract with pilgrim and doesnt need to milk others, any time ive been there ive come back with a whole pile of 2nd hand bits with...

If your near to ballymena/broughshane you could try jim robinson at jrv8 he may be able to help you flog it