Fitting the water throwers turned out to be more labour intensive than I thought. A little bit of research on Jaguar Enthusiast site gave me some experience tales of other people and some insight on what to expect. Heating the thrower and quickly fitting it around the machined edge on the hub seemed the way to go. …
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The rear hubs have been waiting for 2 parts to be galvanised; the water throwers. I bought these new as the originals were very pitted and dented.

It costs something like € 70,- to galvanise a box of parts. It does not matter if that box has 2 bits or is cramped full. So, I've been gathering things to fill the …

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Having ordered a boat-load of engine-related parts, I started to prepare the engine for it. This consists mostly of removing parts from it and cleaning it up.

The exhaust headers, thermostat outlet and the flexplate all need to be replaced by specific parts, either specifically made to fit the GD (like the …

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It's about time I made up my mind about a gearbox to put behind the LS2. When I started to focus on a gearbox I had not a very good idea what criteria to use to evaluate gearboxes. I sort of tried to deliberately ignore (but not completely) the obvious choices in the different forums; not because they are bad or …
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No words needed. At the moment I can't do much to the engine yet, other than drool over it. (Well, I could go mad on polishing I guess)

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