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At last some action on the new workshop, nearly 4 months through the council regulatory authorities read jump thru hoops and I finaly got permission to spend my money on my land. The new place we bought has some waste land at the bottom of the property that had a non permited retaining wall and...

This is probaly a set of questions that Jac Mac could answer off his head. I am mid way between houses waiting to build my workshop so everything is packed away. I have a 3.5ltr Rover running 4 x 40mm twin choke Del Orto`s with a medium cam. Now that I have started to run it full throttle using...

We have just experianced the Best Classic race meeting in the world at the brand new HAMPTON DOWNS circuit just south of Auckland. There were 47 F5000 cars entered along with 12 Can Am cars including a March 717, Mclaren M1 a`s and b`plus a Lola T70. To stand at the pit exit while these cars...

Does any body know where I can get a range of jets for 40mm down drafts thanks.

As I work up all the vital aspects of my Mclaren (oops McCopy) I have made a change to my brake cylinders. I have very good strong responsive brakes with a soft pedal. There is major work to change the ratio (6 to 1) and I was running 3/4 master cylinders and wanted 2 things ...less travel and...

Can anyone give me some clues (simple) on how to work out torsion bar rates to replace coil spring set ups. Different car but similar front suspension set up / geometry, also any simple ideas on how to achieve the bottom pivots for same. Cheers Russell

Just a long shot. Noticed a house for sale in Castor Bay Auckland where the son is building a GT40 replica in the garage. Does anybody know who this may be as he would be close to where I live and it could be good to swap ideas. Cheers Russell

I am in the process of putting my Rover to gether `with a little help from my friends`. Having never done this before I am learning about push road length and hyd lifter pre load etc. as I have put in a mild cam. There has been some disscussion re fitting adjustable rockers to same. To save an...

Being a good Kiwi means trying to re invent the wheel, so. Would a good quality hydrolic pump, similar to that used in an excavator be suitable for a sump scavenge pump set up. How would I work out the flow requirements for a 3500cc V8. One thought I had is that they are designed to deliver...

If you had a choice when plumbing up a remote oil filter and oil cooler, in what order would you have the flow... thru the filter into the cooler and back to the engine or would it not matter.

:pepper:Thought I would drop in some pictures of my project which was started 3 years ago. Basicly its a fairly close visual copy of the Denny Hulme #5 1970 Can AM car built on a tube chassis of my own design. It`s running a Rover V8 via an Audi Transaxle and 4 Twin choke downdrafts for the...

Hi Can anybody point me to a link or book on wheel alignment for the set up of a rear engined car set up not unlike the average 70s formula car. I am assembling my semi replica Mclaren M8B that I have built. Its running rear lower adjustable wish bones, top link and at the front we have...