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Does anyone know where I can buy some of the above in the UK, so I don't have to order them from the US?

I finally got the A/C compressor mounted, and the two belts check out as they should be, one of 47", and one of 59.5"



Once I get the belts on, I can throw in the radiator, fan, and coolant hoses and fire it up!

Quoting: F Body

It is sort of gonna let the rest of the shiney bits down

Yeah it's true, and when you look at the March web site, you can see how over the top some of the 'make it look nice' shiney stuff is.

I never really bought the kit with the aim of super-shiney, more for functionality of having a proper serpentine system instead of the stock 'year changeover' REALLY weird setup of mixed serpentine and v-belts. Plus, the *cough* supercharger addition in the future will be much easier ..

Of course, if it looks nice as well, that's no  bad thing

Quoting: nick69

Nice. I wanted to get a set of March for my 351c but they dont do a serpentine setup for them.

You gonna shine the alternator up??

Hey Nick, yeah they seem to do one for the 351 Windsor, but not the Cleveland.

Alternator stays as it is, I''ve just had to buy a new A/C compressor on ebay 10 mins ago!!!

Finally got the new pulley system sorted on the truck engine rebuild. The power steering pump I was worried about was no problem, and actually the air conditioning compressor which I thought would be fine needs a bit of modification instead. You can never tell!! Getting there tho:



More as it comes! I'm gonna get this thing back on the road if it kills me ....

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Cheers peoples, hopefully the Chevy will join it back on the road VERY soon!!

Quoting: EDGE

they do go though dip yes..... but they are lovely.

probably looking at 15mpg or so around town, which is about normal for a big car wih a large engine

Yep Mike, I flew up to Edinburgh from City Airport to pick it up, and drove it the 550 miles (via a few friends and a Sat night stop over at my dad's in Yorkshire) back to Sarrf London over the weekend.

Ridculously quiet (too quiet really!), you can't even tell the engine is on at 90mph.

Cruised at 90-100 ish all the way back on the motorways / A1, and the total combing MPG by trip computer including a bit of city driving was 16.7mpg.

You know it makes sense!

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As some of you may know, two weeks ago I wrote off my daily driver '94 Jag XJ6 4.0S in a death-defying 70mph 180 degree spin across 4 lanes of the M25 after driving through an oil/water/foam slick caused by a burnt out vehicle.

Which seeing as both the Chevy pickup and my motorbike are also off the road at the moment left me with no daily driver or transport!!

So! I have acquired myself a new daily driver ...



Yes, it's another Jag!! 75,000 miles on the clock means only 5000 miles a year for the last 14 years, full service history, full leather interior. Oh, and this:



Ahh yes, that'll be a 6.0L V12 shovelled under the bonnet, rated at 308bhp @ 5350rpm, and 355 lb/ft @ 2850rpm

I reckon it makes the new daily a bit of a sleeper on the quiet!!

Quoting: Roadkill

XJS ?

The later ones look better but the earlier ones go better - so I've heard.

Naww, the XJ12, the V12 version of what I had, there seems to be afew knocking about. Only 6 litres tho

I've always fancies a V12, so might be time to move up

Oh dear. Was on my way home last night from a mate's house, on the M25 in the Jag, coming up to the M4 exit.

Was doing 70 in the 'slow'lane ready to pull off left onto the slip exit (which is a long slip road).

There had been a previous incident of a vehicle fire on the hard shoulder, with the burnt out vehicle being loaded, but leaving a large wet greasy patch leaking onto the slip on an otherwise dry road.

I took the slip road and went over the greasy patch, and the back end broke away to the right, and then back to the left.

Then me and Jag did a slow 180 pirouette right across 4 lanes, and we ended up facing the wrong way buried in the crash barrier of the fast lane.

I'm fine, but it has stoved the Jag in down that side. I even drove it home, but waiting for insurance to write it off!!



Never a dull moment, and could have been a LOT worse, how I didn't hit anything and nothing hit me I will never know ...

The rebuild continues!!

I ordered a 'replacement' for the old propeller fan that was bolted to the old water pump and plastic shroud, in the form of a bolt in electric fan(s) arrangement.



Ordered it from summit, but with cheapo surface delivery, as it is quite large!! Still only took a few weeks to turn up though. It appears to be *very* well made, and allegedly is a straight bolt in replacement using original fitting points.

I'll take some pics this weekend, after I have another go at fitting the exhaust headers. They needed a bit of 'adjustment' as they were fouling on the larger than stock head bolts of the new block. (I adjusted them with an angle drinder to the delight of my neighbours on the 5th floor )

Should have quite a bit bolted on this weekend, and I'm taking away the radiator to be recored while I'm at it.

Pics soon!!

Quoting: F Body

Jeeze everything on your truck is...................

BIG

Heavy duty, my man

Quoting: FUBAR

aah yeah, probably not ideal, would March send you a new one if you contacted them with the photo? maybe there's 2 types and they've encountered this prob before?

Well hopefully we'll find out soon!!

Definitely some options, I had thought of bodging up some thin bracket also. I'm not sure the holes at the bottom are thread holes, though I shoud look again at them. However, they probably aren't a go-er as the pump would then be upside down with the resevoir connection facing down instead of up, and the others would be on the wrong sides...

I *knew* this would come back to bite me on the A-hole. As you might know, I'm converting the V-belt setup to a Serpentine style setup using March Performance shiney stuff as part of the engine rebuild.

The bit I was never sure about though was the power steering pump, because the truck has quite a rare pump due to it being used to drive both power steering pump AND the hydroboost brakes.

Here's an except of an email I've just sent to March:

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The power steering pump bracket in the kit does not fit the power steering pump mounting holes. It is very close, but not quite right. The power steering pump from the truck may may be slightly rarer than normal as it provides power for both the power steering AND the hydroboost-based power brakes, and as such has one high pressure inlet, and two return low presure inlets, one from the power steering pump, and the other from the hydroboost unit. The pump also has another inlet for the remote cannister resevoir.

Pictures:

Front of pump as seen from looking at front of engine, showing pulley shaft


Rear of pump showing pipe connections


Kit 23090 P/S bracket overlaid near mounting bolts


Kit 23090 P/S bracket overlaid with one mounting hole matched up, other doesn't reach


Can you please advise my best course of action please!!
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Hope I can get this sorted!!

Quoting: Roadkill

Quoting: Cunning Plan
what is this engine in??
It's not small . . . .

For those that don't know (sure most of you do!!), it's in this:

Quoting: Roadkill

Looks sweet - How much Bhp are you hoping for ?

Hoping for at leas 450hp to *start* with ...

Yesterday me and Dr Frank finally dropped my freshly hand built big block back into the truck!! Woohooo!!! It was a fine day for it, unlike last weekend, I think I almost got sunburnt

Anyway, with the help of a large strap, forklift, and a large iron bar, the engine is finally back in the hole, and bolted up to the autobox.

It looked massive in the ship container when it was being built, it looks tiny now it's back in the ol' truck.



BTW, those are the old rocker covers on it of course, we took off the new shiney chrome ones in case of damage from the forklift straps.



It's ready to bolt on all the other new items, more soon!

Quoting: Titsy

Apparently arson in a naval dockyard is still a crime punishable by hanging

Common misconception I'm afraid, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_United_Kingdom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_United_Kingdom

Capital punishment repealed for:

1965 - Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty Act)
1971 - Arson in Royal Dockyards (Criminal Damage Act)
1981 - Armed Forces Court Martial (Armed Forces Act)
1998 - Treason & Piracy (Crime and Disorder Act)

Plus in 1998 the Human Rights Act closed the door completely


The Privy Council (above the House of Commons, below the Queen) which is responsible for Commonwealth nations has also tried to enforce the no-captial punishment on Jamacia for 10 years, which wants to leave so it can keep it

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Mikeyboy, gonna have to meet up soon, I seem to be going down the same path as you!! I'm waiting for an ebay ordered puller to turn up so I can slap on the serpentine conversion pulley onto the power steering pump (which also powers the brakes!), abd then it's mapping time too...

The 'Ostrich' emulator that made you giggle is the toy to use. It's has a USB lead out of one end, and a ribbon cable out of the other, which has the pins on the end to pretend to be a EEPROM. The '7747 ECU in an 80's GM reads the spark and fuel tables from the EEPROM, which is why without an emulator you have to burn a new chip to make any changes. With the Ostrich, you just use TunerPro to upload immediate changes to the emulator over USB, which looks to the ECU like all the values have just changed, as it reads them constantly. Voila, on-th-fly tuning.

Nawww, I'm just gonna tune it with a wideband o2 and alter the fuel tables

Ahhh you have a MAF rather than a MAP sensor. MAFs measure actual amount of air entering the engine, that's how it can compensate. I've got to work with a MAP sensor, which only measures pressure, or engine load, not actual airflow...