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try charging the battery. I'vr recharged my porsche battery a few times when it wouldn't even turn the interior light on. It only lasts a few times like this though before the plates become defomed (tell tale sign is the ends of the battery bulge out). disconnecting the battety is fine if...

Absolutely need a battery monitor. I use 'optimate' product ons all my bikes and cars. Even so it is still a good idea to unplug the charger on a regular basis to allow the battery to discharge a little, and then recharge. I do this one week out of 4. Otherwise the battery develops a memory...

Dalton, from your books did they only remove the rear ARB for LeMans ? The reason I ask is that all mkIIs I've seen have a rear ARB. Granted there are different types (most notably between H&M and Shelby cars), but they still have them...

Nice picture John. these speedo drive oil pump are not cheap unfortunately (I was quoted $1200+). Paul (ZF exert here in UK) told me the top cover is drilled for one oil pipe (the return I guess). I can't recall where the other came from, but have a feeling its the rear cover. Paul does...

Tim, I'm interested too. will send you a pm.

Adam, I sent you another email ;)

Cheers Jerry. Mine is a dash 2 box, and has been flipped & rebuilt by a ZF expert in the UK. Having spoken with him, and now your post, i'm confident it will be okay, just as long as I don't go 24 hour racing :) Where did you get your headers & pipes from ? Were they supplied by...

When I contacted Bob he told me they hadn't sold any to the UK. This was about 2 years ago, so this may have changed by now.

This thread is a little old. I have brought a set of Shelby heads (stage 2 ported) and inlet manifold (also ported, top and bottom), with a 780 double pumper on top. Heads are also using Shelby roller rockers. It will be running a crower cam, lifters, and pushrods, JE +.020 pistons, and...

It wouls also be handy to know under what circumstances any failures occured. e.g. Big block or small block (CIs), what sort of power/torque (maybe the cam type would be handy, to give an indication of the curve) street, strip, or track use, how it failed (ring, pinion, gears, casing, etc)...

I too thought it was pants. They seem to have drifted away from reviewing cars, and moved on to paid jollies. I missed most of the program, and to be honest what my wife told me of it, it was no great loss. I did think the stoning of the camera crew in the petrol garage was amusing. They set...

Randy, a Victory eh. My mate has a yellow Victory trike :) Ron, a bike area might be cool for a bit of off-topic bike banter. I guess you'll soon see how popular it is by the number of posts. SAo what have you brought ?? :chug: I have - err - one - two - three - - - 6 bikes at present (a...

lmao, I only got as far as your 'rant start' and started laughing David :p The state of the roads are attrocious (sp?). In Sussex those in charge have set blanket speed limits of 40mph on all the country lanes. This now means pretty much every car breaks the speed limit at some point as most...

Nice one John. trouble is, all the old pictures in posts still hang off the right edge, just as Alex's does above. ;)

Ron, it looks great, and your doing a superb job. Much appreciated. Two things though: 1) any way you can get the posts to expand to fit the width of the screen ? I see it as a narrowish post, only occupying maybe 60% of my screen width when I maximise the window... 2) when...

Brian, I'm not sure that 5% statistic is true. Actually, reading it again, the key word is FATAL. This may well be the case. One snippet I recall from talking to the accident investigators is a little tick box they have on the accident investigation forms. It is for 'Inappropriate speed'...

Thanks for the info Jim. Woohoo, must get my FOS tickets ordered then :) All the best, John.

Thanks Jim, I thought the caliper looked like a KH, just it looks like a 2 pot job. Does your wiper motor park, or do you have to be a dab-hand at flicking the switch at just the right time ?? ;) Just wondered as my motor has no self parking mechanism. Haven't seen any posts on P4/5 for a...

Nice pics Jim. Many thanks for posting the pictures of the clutch and wiper motor. Its interesting to see the wiper motor is the same as on the MKIIs, but the mounting, shaft length, and lack of drive cable are all different. What does it say on the calipers ? They look like 2 pot jobs -...

shame its not complete & doesn't run.