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Running a 10.5" McLeod street strip kit from RealSteel for years now. Sinter Organic full face for years on the Supercharged. Superb on the street. Just handles like a daily. Perfect on the strip.

Skip the Facet, they do not deliver enough for the 4-barrel carb. Especialy when they are hot.
Holley Red is what you need.
Facet Red Top 40 usGPH free flow. @ 7psi thats about 10 usGPH
Holley Red 97 usGPH free flow. At 7psi thats still 25usGPH

Those Facet pumps wear out fast, especialy on long ...

Been there today. They overhauled the pump within two hours. It should have uprated bearings and uprated seal now as they say.

A bit unexpected but they don't santblast it, they just spray some silver rattlecan paint over the unprepped surface inside and out. Well that won't last long ill guess. I ...

This company will overhaul your pump:

http://www.ep-services.co.uk/

Problem solved.


I will vissit them comming up monday as I am over from Holland for a short break to vissit Dragstalgia & Silverstone Classic ( Retro Run) with a Ford Capri.
Its about a 1½ hour drive from the campsite I am ...

Its not the tappets, you have probably some worn rockers. Easy to check. Remove them from the bar and look inside for their wear pattern.

Any one experiance with this shop before I ship it to the UK??

If you want to run the pump faster why not just have a smaller diameter pulley machined up for the P6 one you have? From memory the standard P6 pulley is about 8 or 9 inches diameter - that pump flange has plenty of scope to accommodate a smaller pulley.


Cause there's a GT40 bulkhead in the ...

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I for sure like the small diameter pulley conversion which makes the pump spin faster.

Its 3.25" from flange to engine mount. Figured its shorter as Buick 340 (that should be 4").

Its Leyland brand and it uses a Ford pulley.

the blue one ??
The other one is P6 and won't clear

Sorry, valve guide

Just fitted these valve springs myself http://www.v8tuner.co.uk/product.php?id=995.
Nice chap and quick responce on the mail.
Can not say that of our forum sponsor as they never responded.......

I machined about 2mm from the top of the valvestem

I used the OEM type washer type flappy rubber stem ...

No bigger capacity engine there is available.

https://www.ebay.de/itm/Land-Rover-Range-Rover-P38-4-6-V8-Motorblock-Engine-Block-Crank-Pistons-D46/112932253961?hash=item1a4b497109:g:IsYAAOSwH2VaCI26

took 1 minute to find

And 3 weeks to late https://www.v8forum.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29 ...

Well its 3.5 and nothing more.
No bigger capacity engine there is available.

Thing is, wherever I asked, nobody has an engine for sale or is willing to ship to Holland.
I asked here on the forum, no responce
I asked the forum contributor, no responce at all
V8 tuner had nothing
and so on and so ...

Well Rhoads is what I like as I have several V8's running them. Its a personal choise.

Quad carbs aint complicated, the are like tripples on a V6 setup within minuts. Never had issues with multiple carbs that might be cause I am a biker runing multiple carbs daily