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Another EXCELLENT magazine Tony!!! If you want to see the video of Angus Cowan driving the Anglesey sprint (and it IS a really good video!) the link is on the front page of the Club Website. GT40 Enthusiasts Club - Front Page There are also additional photos from both Shelsley Walsh &...

We have booked for Sat & Sun Dave, Dawn & M40 GTR

As Graham says, it pulls straight out (up) once the pinch clip is removed. Once you have it out, if the square section socket it goes in to is very 'tight' you can ease it slightly by taking the handle off a file and VERY GENTLY tapping the tang in to the socket. The key words above being...

F104 was waiting when I got home on Friday - a 50 page 'bumper edition' of GT40 goodness to enjoy over the festive season! Well done Tony for pulling together another excellent edition Dave

I went to Croft for one of their 105dba days on Saturday. I failed the static noise test big time - 113dba. I took the back off the silencers and NO PACKING. There was Acoustafil in there when I put the engine back together earlier this year but in the 1600 miles since then it has been...

As this is the weekend of the Donnington Historic I will be there - if anyone else is interested in the Donnington Historic the club has a discount code (2 for 1 tickets with infield parking passes) on the 'Events' section of the web site. Last date for booking with the code is 23rd April. The...

Wow Dave, 9dbA is a serious reduction! When I checked back I got a 5dbA reduction using Acoustafil in my (empty of packing) GTD silencers. Don't forget the surprisingly low max rpm for the GT40...........(and the 'honest face' when saying it).................. Croft are doing more 105...

Typlically UK tracks run at static noise test levels of: Unsilenced (rare and EXPENSIVE) 105dbA 102dbA 98dbA 95dbA (tough but achievable - see penultimate para for how) The higher the noise limit the more the day costs! A number of tracks also (or only in Donnington's case) have track side...

In relation to noise meters. Ian Cowan and I both bought low cost noise meters from Mapin and ebay respectively. Ian 'calibrated' them using his GT40 at a Vehicle Inspection Center against their 'evidential' noise meter. The unit from ebay was 5dba 'out' around the 105dba mark and thus...

I repacked my GTD silencers with acoustafil 2 years ago. From memory I got a 4 or 5 dba reduction, which put me just below the crucial 105 dba in the standard noise test. When I took the back off the silencers to put the acoustafil in ALL the original packing had gone (see photos). I...

The car looks fantastic!

Thanks for 'the directions in which to look' Jac! I have got engine to bits now and have some more info. so an update is worthwhite. Taking the likely initiating events in order:- 1) I still have compression on No. 1 cylinder and there is no evidence of valve to piston impact, I have...

I have had a 'link bar' on the hydraulic roller lifters for No.1 cylinder come off the new (730 miles in use) Edelbrock roller lifter. The photos show:- an overview of 7 of the roller lifter 'pairs' looking normal but the link bar is missing from the lifters on cylinder No. 1 detail of the...

Currently: Power 320bhp, drives nicely from 1000rpm, pulls HARD from 2500rpm, step change at 4500rpm thru to 6000rpm as everything realy starts working together!! Increase of 53bhp ON THE SAME ROLLING ROAD. Engine has retained a VERY WIDE and flexible power band. The Holley is NOT correctly...

The configuration that Mike describes above (302 with Edelbrock RPM head, Airgap inlet hydraulic roller cam Holley 650cfm carbs etc) is the same configuration I went to over winter (other than I stayed with the 1.90" valves) which on the same rolling road went from 267 to 320 bhp. I am limited...