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Happy New Year all. Fuel pressure then fire in the hole! Started first pop. Running rough as guts so plenty to do to sync the 8 stack and have it play nicely with the Holley ECU. Cheers, Andrew

Hi, I'm almost certain that your Holley ECU will have a tach drive output that you should simply connect directly to the tach. Cheers, Andrew

Hi all, Completed the EFI systems check and loaded in my best guess tune, tested and flushed the fuel system, and generally tidied up and completed most of the wiring. Apart from a dud TPS everything was fine. Took the car off the stands for the first time since we gutted it of its old...

Hi all, bit of an update. All major fabrication and powdercoating/painting is done. Now working through test fitting and terminating ECU wiring and fuel/hydraulic/brake lines (tedious) and bolting stuff back in for the final time (fun!). Got the 8-stack on and roughly sync'd up today. It's a...

Hi JP, I raced an XJ saloon with factory calipers and once had a failure of the power brake booster in competition - I could barely slow the thing down, so it goes without saying that the stock jag master size of 24mm is miles too big for an unassisted set-up. I now run a McLaren M1 canam...

Hi All, front chassis final fitting and welding complete, getting paint on now. Inside the car wiring is all done and ECU mounted. Next stage is to powder coat engine/trans mounts, complete the underseal of the body, run under-car brake/fuel/power lines, then put the engine/box back in...

Hi Joel, yep agreed! I think folks lose track of the fact that the length is related to a single RPM point where peak torque is expected, and that having a bit of variation (i.e. a few inches either side of "ideal") simply spreads out the torque peak a bit. I think any bundle of pipes with...

I reckon that length would be fine if you took the normal care to separate leads and avoid close contact with potential earths

Thoughts are with you John. Cheers, Andrew

If so cool. I ripped the input shaft out of the TH400 I had in my previous track car and sent the guts of all the lifters into the sump on a mega over-rev Exactly the kind of shrapnel that would demo the oil pump!

Looks great Andy. Are you going to put trash screens in the scavenge lines to the pump? Cheers, Andrew

I'd recommend that. Cheers

Hi Andy, looks great. The front plate photo prompted a thought based on a near catastrophic failure I had. The grub screws on my oil pump pulley were tight but the pulley walked forward in competition to the extent that only 1/3 of the belt width was engaged on it. I only noticed by...

Hi Leon, Stuck it directly on. Lined pretty much the entire engine compartment. Cheers, Andrew

Hi Markus, I have a 5mm aluminium base-plate located by a pair of long bolts with crush tubes on each side of the hilborn manifold. The base was waterjet cut so that the stacks would go neatly through it and into the hilborn clamps. Under the baseplate there are also sleeve/spacer tubes and...

Hi Leon, I had a similar concern. I used Ados F38 to glue heat reflective foil over the underside of the rear clip and put slots above the headers as shown in the photo. Nothing has caught fire yet. Cheers, Andrew

Awesome Leon!! Fantastic milestone and I bet that has given you a real shot in the arm to drive through the bug list. Cheers, Andrew

Hi Andy, headers look superb. The V-band collection looks ideally placed for a muffled tail section if you ever get pinged by the noise police. great stuff. Cheers, Andrew

Hi Joel, My joint area is definitely pretty leaky as you can see - the lugs on the collectors are OEM but are not used as both the engine and the back section of the exhaust (mufflers etc) are completely solid mounted to the frame. I should also have clarified that I run in open loop until...

Hi Joel, Obviously every case is different but in my case, using the "single" slip fit collector in the picture below, I had to abandon the use of the O2 bungs you can see in the collectors, and install a new bung in one of the primary pipes about 12 inches from the end to avoid air sucked in...