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Dean, at that price, it has to be a Chinese version of the Bosch. I've not seen the real 044 pump come with a banjo outlet. Some of the smaller pumps do, but not the 044 (and I have a brand new one on my workbench at the moment). For the fitting interchange, Pegasus, Racer Parts, etc. all...

Great tip Bram, thanks. Peter Faulkner & I have exchanged several emails and phone conversations now. He's a wealth of info and his springs are very fairly priced. He can wind nearly any spring I want with any free length and rate (within reason of course) for less than $200 for the pair...

Come on Fran, do the Mangusta :) You already own a Pantera and you know you want one.......

Thanks Bram; email sent, so we'll see.

Guys in preparation for installing a Ramliftpro system, I need some shorter springs on my non-GT40 car. Currently my coilover springs have a free height of 10 3/4", and are 5" OD and 4" ID (I know - very odd diameters for coilovers) and have spring rates of 300-310 lbf/in. I'd like to get...

Perhaps it's a linkage issue; how much free play do you have at the top of the pedal?

OK Nick, it was assembled in Sweden from (mainly) British parts; how's that? :) It certainly had all the endearing characteristics of a normal British sports car and most of the parts: Jensen body SU carbs Smiths gauges Lucas electrics Girling brakes & hydraulics Laycock 4spd...

A P1800S Volvo and 2 E-types were what cured me of the desire to ever own another British sports car. The 2nd Jag was the last to go in '75. My wife to be (at the time) gave me the final ultimatum, when her new hairdo and dress were ruined by a ride in it with the top down, and it happened to be...

John's doing this the right way IMO. First, brainstorming on a public forum to gauge interest, especially about which configurations are most likely to be a commercial success, then I suspect he'll go away, try to finalise the specs, then build a pilot motor. I would say to the naysayers...

John what's your thinking on the crankcase, cylinders & heads? Where will the splits be?

Segmented cranks I've seen and dealt with, but no experience with a segmented cam. Normally there's not much room either on top for an OHC or in the block for such an animal. I frankly don't remember how the industrial engine company did it with their V16, but thinking about it now, it must...

Common internals lend themselves well to reducing manufacturing costs, but I suppose not that many automotive engine manufacturers have need for a range of 4/6/8/10/12/16 cylinder engines. The big industrial engine manufacturers have done it for years, however. What would be really interesting...

John, it's a super idea and you just need to figure out how to make it work. In the 70's & 80's I worked for several of the large industrial engine companies, and one of them had a family of engines that were completely modular from an inline six, up through a V16. They shared bores, strokes...

David, remote filter plates aren't too hard to do. Here's one I had made from the existing oil filter bracket. I just lopped off the flanged plate from the oil filter bracket and welded a couple of -10 AN weld fittings on it, then smoothed out the interior with a grinder to help it flow. It does...

Well done Ron! You can hang with some fast company :)

Still undecided (as Fran well knows), but the XJ13 is high on the list :) I really hope the electric pump works well for you as I was planning on using the same pump, or possibly the Stewart.

Thanks Mike, I have a BMW V12 and was planning to do something similar.

Mike, I'd be very interested in knowing more about your electric water pump. Keeping 6.8l of high performance Jag motor cool will be a real challenge. Shoot, the factory never figured out how to keep the 3.8 or 4.2 sixes cool! (Well, maybe the cooling system was "fit for purpose" for...

Don, Jack is on the money. With a high compression big block you're likely to have "several" hundred amps of instantaneous current demand when starting. IMO, the type of connections that use screw down mechanical clamps would be marginal in your application. Since you probably don't have...

I'm acquainted with the Dutch guy who originally took these measurements (and he's a member on here too), and IIRC, that "M" dimension was supposed to be a worst case overall length, and included the original distributors (not shown), which stick out past the cam sprockets. The dimension from...