Alex Heavens

@rojid Yes heat will be required. If you’re changing all the bearings too, you’ll need heat to get the old outer bearing races out. The magnetic filter is a much better idea than the rock catcher. Th...

@rojid In the case of totally dry and you have to prime the pump, I would personally leave the inlet pipe on the pump and take the other end off the bottom of the gdu, rotate the pipe so it is highe...

@rojid I think you are overthinking this a bit. I’ve somehow got away without ever having to prime the pump, although I do agree it’s a good idea to do, but I would probably only ever do it if the gdu...

@rjbender That’s really interesting 👍 It sounds like Radical have ditched the oil cooler and replaced it with a heat exchanger for the XXR? Not sure about the 1st gear at idle part of the manu...

@davidf I have found that both batteries need to be in a good state otherwise it doesn’t like cranking. Not sure how the slave battery goes down, but they do go down eventually (although should be way...

@davidf Was the expanded battery the main one on the bulk head? And yes that sounds super dangerous!!! Guessing if it caught fire that would be the end of your car. I fitted a pair of Lithium batterie...

@jwb Hopefully you can watch this in SA. Looks like the car was raced from 2005-7, although I’m assuming Austin only ever had the one car during that period. I managed to find some results on TSL t...

@jwb The link doesn’t seem to have appeared. But it doesn’t matter, it is the car I thought it was. Bizarrely I met a chap today who probably worked on your car at that time, which I think would be 20...

@jwb Josh any idea who used to race your car when it was in the UK?

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@jwb No problem Josh. Another thing to look out for which has happened on a few JFR’s is a crack in the maincase between the pinion bearing and lay-shaft bearing, although I don’t know if FTR casings ...

@rojid Ok great will PM you 👍

@rojid Have you gone for the diy cheaper dry break route? If so I’d be interested in the old dry break you’ve removed from the car (the part in the red circle). Are you based in the UK? Thanks Alex

No worries, thanks Joe 👍

@joep Is this engine still available?