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It's all fixed !
It was a blocked carb jet.
Everythings running fine now.
Thanks for the help.

Thanks, Perry, but I can't take credit for it all. I bought it like that. I will take credit for the engine dressing, though, as I did do that :D . The car was featured in the Custom Car mag in Dec 87. It was painted bright red then. It got it's present colour scheme in 1989 and the paint is still g...

.... is a GRP bodied 1929 Model A Ford Tudor, P5 3.5L RV8 with BW35 auto trans, E-Type Jag IRS, Cortina based IFS and everything else from all sorts of 70's cars. http://i1214.photobucket.com/albums/cc481/StevieGee1/Hotrod/wheelsday003.jpg http://i1214.photobucket.com/albums/cc481/StevieGee1/Hotrod/...

Wow ! That's a fine looking Rover.
A friend of mine bought one of these when it was launched, exactly the same colour, but I don't remember it looking that good when it left the showroom.
Enjoy

Hi Dave, I should have mentioned that I removed the air cleaner and had a look into the carb. The squirters are squirting and the butterflies are moving. I thought that the inlet manifold was designed to feed 2 cylinders in each bank from one side of the carb so I would have expected 2 hot and 2 col...

Headed for Wheelsday yesterday and only made it as far as the Clackets Lane services. Returned home on the back of a recovery truck. Problem started very suddenly. The car's been running well for ages. It began as a slight hesitation and became a more pronounced misfire over just a few miles. I made...

Hi all ! I'm Steve from Essex and I own a GRP bodied '29 Ford Model A Tudor streetrod equipped with a Rover P5 V8. I've had the car for 3 years now and am still learning the delights or otherwise of this particular engine. I originally intended to get a 4-cylinder hotrod for the fuel economy and was...