Stage 1 V8

so, turns out its been a year since my last post, not much has happened, but slow progess is at least progress mostly little jobs out of sight, but some more noticable Now with lights, windows and door tops http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e64/landyrover/S3%20109V8/SAM_0904_zpsf71a9661.jpg http://i...

Done a bit more, Spent the evenings reprinting the front panel. It got scratched and damaged while trying to get the panels to line up Fitted it earlier today. All the body now lines up, so that's done Found my new mud shields are no where near fitting, more good quality new parts :evil: http://i37....

Done a bit more today, Found out from the stage 1 forum the engine harness runs along the side of the sump ... Wouldn't have thought of that, so fitted that, Fitted the RH wing, and then found the bonnet jams , back to the problem I had when fitting the LH Found some interestingly rubbish shut lines...

Sorry never got back on this,

After a few months I'm finally back on with my Stage 1 so will try it in that area and see how it looks

Thanks

P.s if anyone has any under bonnet photos they would be useful

Struggling to iddentify the correct routing of the engine harness, from the multi pin connector at with the main harness The end points, starter, alternator and connector are obvious, but how it routes to them isnt The manual isnt helpfull on this matter either, could someone with a spare 5 mins tak...

mine is an autosparks loom.
can't fault the quality, shame about the blue wrap, but knowing about it I would think they could do it black if asked (the chassis bit is black)

Long time, with no progress but got a day on it New wiring arrived, shame the "replica" loom is rapped in blue and not the balck it should be, but I waited about 6 weeks for it, so its going in Fitted a frnt wing as well - a few times by the time things were adjusted enough to get it on pr...

I must admit that dash top jumped right out at bit me! I thought "thats a pre-74 dash top!!". Is the Stage 1 type vastly different from the generic late series III item? I would have thought they would be easy enough to get hold of. Cut off wasn't 74, much later - June 1980 with the vario...

Slightly different shape arrroudn the instrument pannel (has a slight recess, where the normal S3 ones is staight) and has smaller vents for the heater (same as defender vents) rather than the T shaped ones on normal S3's Fixings for the top pannel on the Stage 1 are accessible from in the car, so t...

Today didnt go quite to plan Removed masking from the wing, which brought a nice strip of paint with it ... :haha: bollocks - so thats going to have to be redone (and with less sticky masking tape this time) Found the clutch MC has filled the drivers side footwell with fluid ... so that lasted a who...

A little bit more progress, Wibgs stripped off again after finding lots of runs Doors stripped off again, as the holes for the locks are in the wrong place :twisted: Modified and painted again ... just to lacquer to go then the doors and wings can go back on http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e64/lan...

A little more done, Got it to run ... initial attempt didnt end well with lots of smoke and leaking petrol (carb float heights wrong :embarrassed ) Much better after that, though the carbs been out of tune, balance and ignition timing being off made tweaking things by ear a bit fruitless Lots more r...

I may be being a little blind here, but I am looking for the part numbers for the following and cant find the items in either the parts book or optional equipment

Spare wheel bonnet buffers
Anti loose locks for the tailgate
Battery cables

Anyone able to help?

Thanks, very helpfull

Civi wiring runs inside the chassis , but Disco 2's is military so aditional wires are probably outside

If your distributor is worn out then there is no point in fitting luminition or something without changing the distributor, Personaly I would replace it with the same thing you have - there is nothing wrong with the standard set up other than needing to set points gaps every so often (i find between...