60ftman

Built mine on cash I didn't spend smoking and drinking. Owes me £8k (or so!) but that's over five years. It's nice to know that we own it all outright, and no-one can come knocking on the door and ask us to sell it to pay back a loan. Think about it long and hard before you borrow the cash

Yes, nice alloy heads for SBF engines. The hot ticket for race cars in the 60's. Modern head technology has more-than caught up with the Gurney/Weslake head (so modern SBF after-market heads will flow better, give more power etc), but they do look the nuts.

Ah yes......That was mine (when it was grey)........ Looks good in it's new blue & silver 'Wizards Groove' paint job. Thanks 105Speed.........I can feel a tear welling up.....

And why would that be? I've been building race cars for over 20 years, and they all seem to come out of my own workshop. Funny that.

Yes, it is (or was).

Yeah, last time I saw JT's probe it was in full 'Thunderbird 2' colours.

Crikey, aren't we a knowledgeable lot!!! I notice there are no pics of my old 7-litre Anglia, and I'm too much of an old fart to know how to post the pics, so someone out there can do it!!

It was originally built by, and belonged to, John 'Armco' Tebenham and had a 600+ BHP Cossie Turbo in it. It was blue at that time. In this guise (yellow & stripes) was raced by John Ricketts and had a big-block (7 litre plus) Chevrolet V8 on nitrous. Eventually got down to the low 9 seconds in the quarter, and I believe he still owns it.

Yup, as easy as that. Changed mine from 1998cc to 7,000cc (and subsequently to 8500cc) and they never batted an eyelid!

I find you have to give them sh*t every year or you get stitched up. I phone mine at every renewal and say, "Every year you send me a renewal, and every year I phone around and get a lower quote, and then every year you decide to match that quote." "Let's not play the game any more. How low can you insure me for?" Usually they pass me onto a 'supervisor' (slightly older school-leaver who can either tell the time or spell his/her own name without help), and every year it works. Saved £100 last year - result!

How do you lot EVER find a forum like that? I thought I spent a lot of time surfing, but I've never thought "Hey - I know, I'll log onto the Alfa Romeo club of Portugal and find out what those crazy guys are up to." You're just a bunch of saddo's

Tub it! I've got 37" of rubber under the back of my standard width RS, and nothing rubs!!!!

I live in Waterlooville - I can do it for you. PM me if you're interested

Sell it and blow the money on beer and hookers!

That's why I buy most of my parts from the States, they have been doing this stuff with big V8's for much longer than we have, and are less likely to bullsh*t because they don't need to - if you don't buy it (whatever it is) there's a queue of 1,000 others who will. I had a custom ground cam made for my engine a couple of years ago. I was quoted around £400 in the UK by 'the specialists', and eventually got it done by a well-known cam manufacturer in the US for £70. Even allowing for the £40 shipping, that's one hell of a saving!!!

Is the 351 for sale??????

Out in the garage at the weekend to re-torque the heads. Fired it up - woke the neighbours (for about 4-miles around) - HOORAY!!!!! Found the coolant was getting pressurised - BOOOOO!!! One of the perils of running copper head gaskets I guess. Never mind. We'll whizz the heads of and chuck some silicone around the water and oil ways. It'll soon be the race season again!!

Ah, cam profile maybe. Any cam profile can be ground into any cam (material allowing) so I'm guessing you had a Cleveland profile ground onto a Windsor cam blank. There's no way that the actual cams will interchange though, as the Cleveland is absolutely Mahoosive compared to the Windsor. I use a Pinto cam in mine!

We've got 'M 700 BRA' on an '06 Mustang. Reads 'MY COBRA' (with judicious use of spacing and bolts!) www.billshepherdmustang.com

As for V8s you sat 351, C or W, totaly different engines but the heads will interchange with a bit of machining. and both engines have a different firing order, but the cams will interchange, and the later firing order on the 5.0w has the same firing order as the cleveland. Cams interchange???? Between a Windsor and a Cleveland?????? Have you been looking at them through the bottom of your beer bottle, cos you've obviously been drinking. Windsors and Clevelands are TOTALLY different engines. The Cleveland head was used in a much-modified form on the Boss 302 engine, but aside from that absolutely nothing else interchanges. Windsor engine is largely similar in width to the Essex V6, and as it'll be a thin-wall block it probably won't weigh that much more. Difference between the 289/302 and the 351 Windsors is about 1" in the deck-height. The bottom line is - it doesn't matter which Ford V8 it is, GET IT IN!

Mine was made in 1980...........Then again in 2002...........Then again last year............

Really? I would have thought that, given the age of most OSF's they would have been painted in cellulose or a TPA? And aren't 'most modern cars' now painted in water-based paint in a vague attempt to save the planet?

Ikea?

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