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Hi all, My exhaust is a stainless 2.5" set I purchased ten years ago, I believe through Ian Wilson. I've been happy with it but it is quite restrained sound-wise, as the rear box also looks to be a traditional muffler. It has a pleasant enough note, but little of the bass-filled music I would...

My South African V8 has developed what feels and sounds like a sticky valve, or something to that effect, having stood unused for fairly long periods of time. For this reason I am quite sure long-term engine wear is not the case, but the engine's history is undocumented and there's a Crane...

Inspired by Quagmire's trip to the Dales, I recall my winter-holiday journey in my first P6B in 1998 with two friends while studying in Cape Town. It's a bit far-out looking back at it. It's a whole other situation in SA. Distances are massive but roads are fabulous if dangerous at times. We...

After some anticipation I spotted my car in season 2 ep. 4 of the series "State of Happiness" (orig. "Lykkeland"), which is aired in the UK. The production rented it for a day's work as a static prop in two locations. Not quite the main feature so far, as it never came into focus! :LOL: Be that...

As I’m travelling less and less to Cape Town and my car needs to be used, I’m going to sell it. The market there is very small as the P6 was never a big seller, so I doubt it’ll fetch very much. But the alternative is to sell it remotely, from Norway, to a prospective, remote, U.K. buyer, and...

Hi all, I recall reading several posts over the years about it having to do with keeping the carb tower just cool enough to prevent fuel vapour lock, and just wanted to have it confirmed once and for all. I’m having vapour lock issues with my V8 in Cape Town, which I’m preparing to sell, and my...

I’m eyeing up an interesting project that comes with a hoard of spares, including eight(!) of these these Revolution rims from an SD1. Don’t recall having read anything on them as relates to P6Bs. Any chance they can go on?

A friend is left with an Icelert kit - control unit, sensor box and bracket with wiring and connectors. Never seen one in the flesh before, so don’t know if that’s all there is to it. The control unit looks new. Asking £200 or offers. Also a set of boot mount parts, where the badge/insert is...

Both of the ‘arrow’ indicator bulbs in the instruments flash, weakly, when using the indicator stalk in either direction. I’ve just replaced the instrument base unit for a couple of other reasons and hoped it might take care of this, but no. I’ll have a look in the multi pin connectors and the...

Turning the steering wheel to full left lock I can poke my finger between the RH lock stop bolt and the side(?) rod joint. I get 1 1/2 turns of the steering wheel. Full right gives me 1 3/4 turns and the joint opposite touches the stop bolt on the LHS. I can’t see any obstruction. Can the damper...

Hi all, Would love to hear from some of you who have replaced the front top link bushes (for OE spec reman or NOS Metalastik ones), how the car felt afterwards, compared to before? I’ve never driven one with recent ones on it, except a project car I looked at once. It felt strikingly responsive...

Looking for a pair of good quality police-style spoilers for the V8. Seller must be willing to ship to Norway.

Here’s a long shot, with apologies if I sound like a dreamer: Here in Norway(!) I have a set of four correct but blemished P6 14x5.5J Rostyle rims with no caps or lug nuts. I’m hankering for: Cragar Eliminators Minilites (newer, wider 15” ones) Cobraslots or Wolfrace slot mags Cash difference...

Hi all, I have approximately (!) two LT77 gearboxes in parts left from a job lot going free or swap for odds and ends. One of them is ex-Sherpa van so has a different input shaft. Parts are in various states of repair, the best were used to rebuild a third ‘box, which is for my project. No bell...

Our S.A. V8 has inadequate steering power assistance, ie. there's some but much less than on any other PAS car we have known. Virtually everything has been gone over: Steering gear rebuilt Pump rebuilt, other pumps have been tested in the past, relief valve correct HP hose replaced Column...

Brand new unused from Burlen. These are not for the P6 as they're too long IIRC for my AUD521s. As the tag says they're WZX1178 replacing WZX1311 RE. They're not expensive so I'm happy to send them to anyone who can use them by post for nowt (or any suggested barter arrangement).

Rover 3500S Grupp 1 V8 125000.- | Stockholm Unfinished project, comes with second car, "4-speed competition gearbox", 220-hp engine. For sale due to illness. Completion advice offered.

My V8 was converted to PAS but has unequal steering radius by as much as up to half a turn, which is really annoying in parking situations as I'm forced to do three-pointers where I shouldn't. The question is whether I have to pull the box out, centre the output shaft to the rest of it and...

Hi all, Our friend in Cape Town recently fitted new floats to our V8, as kits coming from Burlen with float chamber gaskets. These proceeded to fail on both carbs having barely been in contact with fuel at all, and started leaking as soon as the engine ran. On visual inspection he said they'd...

Hello all, In need of a good working sender with olives to fit a S2 V8. Wins are saying out of stock, eBay likewise. Othewise, any repair advice welcome, seeing as eg. older Land Rover ones are readily available NOS and could have transferable components? Tor

Spotted a promising looking project, being sold as a parts car with no papers. SE of Oslo near Sweden border. Works out at £280 approximately. http://www.finn.no/50806282

Through the South African Koni distributor I've learnt that Koni NL are producing a batch of some 50 (presumably front) red adjustables for the P6, of which we've secured one as one in my off-the-shelf pair had failed and can't be rebuilt. Anyone know of this? I've no further details of pricing yet.

Browsing on eBay I spotted this, reading the bit about "dry stored for five years". Then I saw the photos... (I presume there's quite some pressure in that pressure washer but still it made me larf.)

Hi all, Tried to fit a remanufactured inlet-to-heater coolant hose to the SA V8, and received a call recently that it didn't fit, that the length was correct but the bends were set 25mm too far forward. They were otherwise correctly spaced, but he had to cut it at the heater end so the rear...

Remember last year this bloke drove a tobacco leaf P6B auto to the Sahara? The car should be coming up for sale shortly. https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=519287744849217&id=171868392924489&substory_index=0