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Hi Kim, With the learning curve required to complete a car of this caliber, the support and knowledge base available from this forum is invaluable to the home builder. Having to take something apart and do it all again is not unusual as individual car owners have full choice of parts they...

Hi Kim, a lot of good suggestions concerning the throttle linkage, levers and springs thus far. I'd really like to see a pic or two of your linkage hooking up to the throttle pedal as this is not clear in the photo posted. On the RCR pedal boxes we've set up a clock spring is installed on the...

Hi Kim, It would be helpful if you posted a few pics of the throttle hook up at the pedal box and the induction system to get a handle on possible causes and make suggestions. The three RCR pedal boxes I've set up all worked very well once properly adjusted. The same care is required with...

Hi Neville, no doubt you have gone through all the parts cross over guides and searched the part number online in your quest. What I should have said is that the solenoid is a common part if you have twenty years experience in Bosch starters. There are many OEM parts on the CAV GTs from Tier 1...

Hi Neville, the solenoid is a common Bosch part. Take the starter to a local alternator/starter re builder. He'll have the part, install it and make sure the brushes, bearings and bendix are all ok, refresh as required. Safest thing to do. Also you should check over all the battery grounds...

About the brake bias, when they are properly bedded in and bias adjusted for optimum braking on smooth flat clean pavement you should have all four brakes on the verge of locking simultaneously, however in extreme braking the front brakes should lock first. The suspension must be properly set...

Hi Neville, What you're really asking for is the complete four corner setup of the car. There is a limit on the amount of caster, camber and toe available on the CAV GT. The first concern is ride height. The second concern is the corner weights. Then you can head towards alignment specs, not...

There is renewed interest in these parts particularly from new CAV owners like yourself looking to build or upgrade older CAV GT40s to the best it can be. I am always happy to help out with advice regarding technical questions raised by forum members regardless of brand of manufacturer as...

The CAV GT is a very robust car. The ball joint pin will bend before any damage to the upright assembly or upper control arm. Ball joint pins are machined from alloys designed to do just that, bend rather than break off. On the CAV Canada suspension upgrade kit the ball joint issue was fixed...

Hi Jasper, The upper ball joint at normal ride height (5 inches for most KVA / GTD based cars) has 7 degrees of the movement in the joint is being taken up by the kingpin angle of the CAV upright, leaving about 7 degrees left to use in bump. If you drop the ride height to original GT40 specs (4...

You're welcome, thank you. I've seen these parts as new staked or not. Today's fuels are not kind to old plastic or new incorrect choice of plastic chemistry. So a simple pressed in part should be sympathetically staked. Fabulous looking part too. Cheers

Hi Ken, all good suggestions for sure. You can't be too careful with tolerances when mating up non OEM parts like your Renault transaxle to a SB Ford V8. This is a well proven combination going back for decades. Jac Mac raises a good question, why did it fail? I expect checking the run out of...

Hi John, always happy to help forum members sort out fiddly bits to avoid a tow home or buying new parts, if a simple repair can restore original operation. Here's a pic of a Filter King regulator showing the "stakes". Pretty heavy hits, cannot say if these are original or some got to this one...

Fantastic car, congratulations! On the matter of road use and in consideration of driveway ramp angles I run 4.25 front and 4.50 on the rear. As for the tires, are the Dunlop CR82s on your car EU marked? I have customer cars equipped with Dunlop CR65s which have EU markings on one sidewall and...

Hi Jasper, the CAV ball joints were used in both series100 cars and post100 production. I don't know when these replaced in recent years or are in fact still in use. I can stay the ball joints are reliable and capable of considerable abuse, ie: lower ride height will bind the upper joint in bump...

I should mention that the wrench access created allows you to install and tighten two metric nuts on the studs threadlocked into the transaxle. This maintains the original clamping forces securing the transaxle to the bellhousing. Cheers

I became gun shy over the machining tolerances on the earliest CAV cast ZF to SBF bellhousings far back as 2004. After several expensive engine outs over dragging clutches, changes had to be made. On each subsequent build or clutch/transaxle service we cut two holes in the casting to allow 12...

Been there done that, all good suggestions. One more thing to check is the trueness of the bellhousing with the transmission. If the crankshaft and transmission input shaft are not +\-.002 to .003 max of each other the side loading of the input shaft will cause the problem you have. Makes no...

I'm with Terry on this one. With individual runner systems like four Weber IDA/IDF carbs or an eight stack EFI system the lack of a common plenum makes equal throttle settings absolutely necessary. All cylinders must draw equal vacuum at idle, throttle take up off idle must also be the same...

Here's the pics... Cheers