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That sucks! I think people may have underestimated what you ment by a wine. You get home ok?

In the same boat as soren, looks like it says ep90

Holy thread revival batman!

There are a few things to keep in mind if your doing your own heads. The main one being if you open the ports and runners out too much you can lose air velocity into the chamber making it worse. The power increase In properly ported heads (although it's better across the board)is often at the top of the rpm range which is no good for heavy brick shaped things. Best thing to do is to match the ports on the head to the inlet manifold with a gasket, remove all the casting flash in the ports and decoke the valve seat. I let ports want to have a coarse finish while exhaust wants to be smooth. If you stick to modest porting like that then the chances of going throwing waterway etc are slim. Hope that helps

Right just been to a hobby weld distributor and the bottle deposit of the size I want is nearly £200 plus £60 for the gas and with it being a lower pressure it doesn't work out that much less.

SPA Are a bit far for me nige. That is a good deal though! I diddnt even think of the bottle pressure so this is another thing to think of. I don't weld every day so I'm not sure it will effect me too much

Thanks for the reply, it is definatly cheaper than BOC, I can get 2 bottles of argon from hobby weld for the price of one from BOC!

Anyone on here using hobbyweld gas? Both my BOC bottles are empty and I don't really want to keep paying the BOC prices that Comes with them So I'm looking at going elsewhere. it says on the hobbyweld website bottles are £60. I assume this is just a deposit and the gas isn't in that price. so can anyone tell me how much it costs for the gas in that bottle?

Use 2 45° hoses instead of a 90, everything will flow a bit better and stop the pump tripping

^^^^^^^^^ what he said too much BHP and a 3 link front is asking for trouble anyway

I have a very limited knowledge on it bud. It's a complex subject effected by many things that I do not pretend to understand but It will still have an effect as you can potentially be sending a positive wave up a runner to the valve and effectively chocking that valve. I would have thought the pressure is all relative so Doing this will aide breathing and allow it to rev higher (dont interpret that as moving power up the rev range). People have got around this by making manifolds with big runners to lose the wave in but that big runner needs more pressure to spin the turbo and you're back to square one. Do you need a new manifold for compound turbos? I thought the outlet and inlets were linked on the turbos And Keeping a stainless manifold from warping might be another challenge if your running compound setup

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of you want to get the most out of it your runner should match the port. I have matched the port size to the runner size on all of the heads I have ported and it's always been an improvement. If you're building your own tubular manifold you Might want to take into account scavenging and presurewave tuning but that can turn into a headache and you might be forced into just making what fits. I have a link somewhere for a manifold design kit, it's pricy but you basically clip plastic sections together to make your manifold and then transfer that into tube sections.....I'll dig it out

It can and they do. I fell fowl of this last time and all he said was I can't prove that the engine is t the older 3.5 with injection on it. My system now has a cat

I have the standard cast manifolds, some sort of tubular down pipe/de cat pipe. Rrc Y-section and the rest is 2" stainless with a 12" resonator box at the back. I should point out that 2 manifold studs had snapped in this video so it sounds a bit poo but it's loud. If it's a daily drive I wouldn't recommend ditching the middle box https://youtu.be/4aMwjfLh0OU

You basically have what I have. It is loud but bareable but I think it would be too much with out some sort of silencer somewhere.

If you are going to undertake something like that it's not a bad idea to get a welder and learn. MIGs are inexpensive these days and the ammount of tutorial videos on YouTube will get you going in no time. The money spent paying someone to do it will easily out weigh the cost of learning and doing it your self.Aside from that Landrovers are a massive mechano kit so you'll learn quickly. Enjoy

Yeah ian is pretty good, I have his sliders and just fitted one of his cross members. Also uk made

Making something fit that was never meant to be there will always cost you. I've not driven a gems top end v8 in anger so can't really compare the two but mine happily keeps up with tuned td5s for a fraction of the cost so I'm happy with that.

Terrafirma bought the rights to a lot of southdowns stuff. Try looking in that direction. Aside from that I have some dixonfab stuff on mine which is ok and priced very well

yeah I haunt the lakenheath/ mildenhall area so we're not to far from each other. I'm striving to get mine done for the EAOR event next month, if your going your welcome to come have a look

The engine was a standard 3.9 serp yes. Everything more or less just bolts on. There is a full build thread on the members vehicle forum of mine. any questions feel free to ask EDIT: ive just seen you are in Norfolk, where abouts? I haunt the land from time to time so may be able to help

I'm not sure it's the prettiest thing ever but when the bonnets open I'm rarely in the mood to admire it or say nice things.

Just putting mine back together now. I can't compare against gems but I can say there is enough torque at the bottom to spin 33" 12.50 bfgs tyres and my rear Salisbury short shaft is beginning to twist a little. I'm fitting a crower 229 cam which allegedly puts 20bhp across the rev range and increases low end torque considerably Nige sells a thermostat housing for thor you need the Thor rocker covers as well to do it properly as it used a different set of breathers The throttle body being where it is has made it difficult to mount an air box in a sensible place but you can get around that thor throttle cable will fit but you need to mod the throttle pedal or buy a small cable clevis buy a TD5 washer bottle Make sure you get the hose fitting to the fuel rail when you buy the manifold its a fairly simple conversion if your using MS to install it.

I wish they had that a few years ago, I bought mine a 50cc quad to get her into 4 wheels, it worked but now she's really into it i my scares the carp out of me every time she goes on it