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Thanks buddy :D

Cheers buddy :D Always nice to have some encouragement :)

Next update should be when i get the block back from the engineering shop from its boring, honing, decking and dipping :D

Ah now i knew you'd say that :rofl:, the edelbrock carb is a hybrid and suprisingly economical for what it is.

Basically it has a vacuum secondary crossed with a mechanical secondary which gives a smooth transition of the vacuum and also the welly of a mechanical. I did my research on this :D Plus it only cost me £150 :hyper:

I can't find the article but it explained it a bit better: "The mechanical secondary air velocity valve sense air flow according to demand and automatically regulates a smooth transistion from part throttle to wide open throttle."

Off secondary the economy is supposed to be not that far off the original carbs.

I was planning on hydraulic lifters with a mild cam but because of the springs it's either going to cost me money to convert them back or i pay more to get the solid lifter setup, hey ho.

I also have two intakes to pick from that should give me some choice

hahaha love that numberplate :rofl:

Well the other week the two heads arrived from the states along with a stupid bill for £250 import duty and the shipping was miscalculated so i ended up picking up the £120 excess on that too but all in all got the heads and roller rockers for £950 all in which is still a saving.

Now the annoying part, the springs have been uprated to high lift crower ones, the head's been machined and they've been fitted already, only problem is the roller rockers he's sent aren't for the studs on the head. They're 3/8" instead of 7/16" (smaller diameter holes)

Now if i were a skinflint i'd just change the bolts but as there's a good chance at high revs that these could bend and wreck the engine so against what i was originally intending on i'm going for solid roller cam and lifters with uprated pushrods which will give it a bit more a buzzy top end.

Match that with the carb which arrived in the post today with a slightly different take on mechanical secondaries and the engine isn't going to be quite what i was intending but hey ho the more power the better and that free-er higher revving delivery should be quite good fun as opposed to the hardcore grunty bottom end i was planning.

Unfortunately the problem i've got now is after paying my tax bill, the import duty etc and now i have to find 700 quid to refill my gas cylinder at the back of the house so all in all i'm broke again and just as i was about to get the engine down to the engineering shop things have cropped up :(

Ah well another couple of months and i might be back on track... i hope!

Welcome back Daz :D

It was a top edition of it, lily was great just a pity its all finished this series :(

Great news buddy, well done and thanks kim for all your hard work :D

I wondered what John Peel did after his fake death... :rofl:

It was flipping brill! :rofl:

That's awesome :D I always wanted the clarkson power SD1 V8 from his first video but it was left to rot in a field :(

http://www.v8engines.com/projects-033-clarkson.htm

Thanks Nick;) I do hope to have the project finished this year.

That's good news buddy, i'll look forward to seeing it at the shows this year :D

How cool is this, a camera inside the engine as it's running so you can see what happens :D

Sorry buddy, doesn't ring a bell with me

pmsl :rofl:

I think this is the problem, alot of the cars that have the most power in the country are still off the road being worked on or made one dyno run and blew up or had issues. SO if it's the most powerful cars on the road at this moment in time that could be a pretty impossible answer to find :)

Full respect to Mac1 for his work, it's an awesome project but i've only ever seen it on the roads once when we did the north/south convoy meet 3 years ago

For the third time now, snow might get in the way of me seeing the other half. It's really pissing me off now :rant: She's been snowed in at work for 2 days now and we were hoping she'd come back tonight but looking at more snow coming down it looks like it won't happen again. Been 3 weeks since i last saw her now :(

Whatever the colour was on my old zed:

Officially the fastest time in the ZClub Hall of Fame is Gavin Balmer running a 300zx 2+2 doing an 11.387 quarter mile and 121.79mph terminal on NOS and Slicks.

Unfortunately as far as i know he passed away a few years ago, that was running a chevy small block but no idea on power.

It's alright having these highly powerful cars with lots of potential BHP but the only place where BHP counts is on the drag strip, 800bhp isn't going to make a good track car and you're never going to be able to use it on the roads so make it count - GET DOWN THE POD :D

That looks fooking lovely :D

Cool :D Always good to see these hidden gems :D

Especially in that green, was the best colour they came in IMHO

Looking good there buddy :D

Always, always wanted one of these though:

First one was my parents car i learn to drive in, white 1994 estate 2 litre, did 198,000 on the clock without a change of clutch

Second was my V6 1992 which after 2 weeks i hit an flood and wrote the front end of the car off stripping 20 foot of fencing off and nearly plummeting 60 feet onto the M42. Car still started and drove fine but the panel damage was so much it wasn't worth fixing.

Third was "The Batmobile", black saloon, full rs bodykit, cossie wheels, black leather, awesome car but dinted the wing and didn't seem worth the fixing for the price £250 quid!

Next was a 1980s 2.3 v6 Estate with 80k on the clock and one owner, was so completely mint i didn't dare keep it and sold it for a profit of 300 quid.

Next was a white saloon, i only borrowed that for a while and the same with the next one.

And the seventh was the scorpio (it's still a granada! just different panels) 2.3 ultima. Brilliant car, can't sing it's praises enough, 40,000 miles in 12 months and the only thing that needed replacing was the rear tyres and one of the coil packs but that stayed with my parents after I moved in october :( I do miss it :cry: