Michael.

Intake must sound nice, should post up some audio clips! 

Yeah pads are a fun one, only know until you really try them. Low dust is the main priority, had some dusty types in the past. Just a nightmare.

Definitely wont be a garage queen, gotta enjoy these things! 

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1 hour ago, Twistee said:

Pretty sure you could start a Youtube channel with your restoration work.

I have thought about that. Kiwi accents on videos is always super cringe though! 

It's always a bit more work than most people realise by the time you buy a few cameras and start editing. I could do it, but I think it would detract from my enjoyment of the work faffing around trying to record my manic work methods haha. 

2 hours ago, Twistee said:

This is fantastic work, what art museum is it being installed in? 

The one in my heart of course! 

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Are we related? You ability to go full nerd is so like me! 

Really nice to see how close you were able to get the header lengths. Wonder how it will sound as that can make for quite a spicy exhaust note  

Have you planned out what you'll do and use for the mid and rear section of the exhaust? 

Shame it's had so many non original changes. Even headlights have something going on?

Interior appears to have about 4 different trim colours, kind of concerning as things like that suggest it's been 'bitsed' together to make one car.

Certainly potential but for the money a prospective buyer would need to thoroughly inspect it before hand. 

2 hours ago, Cement said:

Based on the plastic printed and glued mock ups they were within about 2mm within each bank ... bank to bank they are different but should be less critical given the secondaries will be relatively long. How they actually came out after fabrication is up for debate due to how much the stainless moves about !!

Once i have them all trimmed to length for the collectors i will fill each tube with water and measure the volumes.

Love the attention to detail! 

That's hilarious!

From your calculations / measurements how close are the primary pipes to being equal length of each other? 

3 hours ago, Eagle said:

Sounds great in those clips. To me the non cat E34 M60's engines were always quite raw for a luxury car.  

Cheers. Yeah it's a curious one. Had to be some of the last high end cars sold without cats? 

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I don't agree with putting EV equipment in old classic cars personally, especially if it was an old straight 6, V8 or V12 to start with, I think you remove the essence of the car and turn it to something it's not. Perhaps some people that like that idea only care for the old style, not the old engineering that makes them work with their unique characterful mechanical sounds. Personally I love the old engineering that goes into the petrol motors, knowing what engine X car has is point one of understanding the essence & potential of any car for me. I suppose it's an each to their own deal like anything though. 

At least in the case of the 1970 MG above I like the fact they kept the manual gearbox, very nice.  

That said I wouldnt mind an electric hydrogen fueled car that idled at 700rpm, you could rev it out to 7000rpm stationary with a manual gearbox or automatic fitted and tuned to deliver power like a regular car. None of the above are needed but so what  

2 hours ago, KwS said:

That'd be the perfect commuter for me. Plenty of range for the round trip even if I gunned it everywhere (as if you wouldn't), damn cool styling and the simplicity of not worrying if it will start. Wonder what it's worth, since 20k isn't reserve. 

I once priced up an electric conversion probably 10 years ago. Seemed that about 2/3 of the cost was battery 1/3 motor and control units + custom install work. From what I worked out you wouldnt have had much change out of $50,000

I wouldnt be surprised if they were asking 75k+ for this MG  

48 minutes ago, Sammo said:

 

 

Wow, that is looking spectacularly good !!

A credit to your efforts & car sir. 

Good to see you replaced the hydraulic oil chain tensioner in the above post, they are so easily overlooked and the primary cause of guide issues!

11 hours ago, lemusa said:

Build is taking forever due to the material shortages so won't have garage space until May at this stage.

 

What kind of shortages have you bee experiencing? 

10 hours ago, GorGasm said:

Not saying that everyone can or should do it.  But what if you could live within 5km of both of your jobs allowing you to walk or scooter or something? 

Seemed to work fine in the Hunger Games! Stay in your district!! 

3 hours ago, Cement said:

 

Speaking of internal combustion engines, went to check out my mates new Lexus LC500 this morning ... quite the piece of automotive art to look at and the sound is amaze-balls !! One very very cool car.

 

What colour did he get? At first I wasn't really a fan of the styling, it's a bit polarizing in some colours but with the right colour they look pretty interesting, nothing else like them on the road. 

Pretty cool they are still using a big 5 liter NA beast of an engine too, I commend the die hard engineers passionate about such keeping that going for as long as they can, heck they even brought out a new IS500 with the same engine in foreign markets.

32 minutes ago, polley said:

Must be slow as f**k to charge if it only draws 10 amps. A decent charger will draw 30 amps. Consider the average house is only supplied with 60 amps. If you come home, plug in your shopping trolley, have the heat pump on, turn the oven on to do some cooking etc, you're pretty much maxed out.

Definitely one way to max our your at home power supply haha. I wonder what it looks like when the whole neighborhood is doing the same thing mid winter (if everyone had an electric car in that scenario)

On that note of chargers, I was shocked a how slow most of the typical at home chargers are, definitely require overnight charging which means long hours of unattended charging. In some instances I've read it's suggested for electric cars to not be left unattended while charging or parked inside garages at home out of safety concerns. (There area already some apartment complexes and underground garages that don't allow electric cars to park inside due to the fire risk and the potential insurance headaches etc)

Of course no one is going to watch their electric car charge all night for safety concerns with this weak sauce at home chargers, Obvious not the intention but it's not like people fill their cars up with petrol without watching, in fact they are fully involved in the whole process (which takes 2-3 minutes) and there are various safety aids in case anything goes wrong. Obvious given the materials involved on both car types, all have inherent risks, nothing is completely safe.  

Time will tell how all this plays out when thousands more electric cars are added to the market in the coming years. The numbers are still tiny so hard to see any actual trends yet.  

So pretty, I like your welding skills, very nice!

Internal combustion engine cars are so much fun, endless possibilities and modifications to do such as this. A joy forever! 

15 hours ago, GorGasm said:

 

NZ society needs to stop commuting for work in passenger vehicles.  It's a colossal waste of time and resources.  I used to spend 2.5 hours a day in Auckland traffic and spend $150 a week in petrol and I now do the same job remotely and live less than 1 km from all essential services 

So basically people shouldn't travel around and only get hired for jobs within a small distance of their home, tough luck if theres no work in the area? You might have got lucky but its far from typical, especially given the layout of Auckland city. 

If someone wants to work 20km from where they live that's their choice & maybe the only option, they shouldnt be told it's bad or not allowed because of time and resource use.

Every human activity uses resources. If there's going to be a discussion on not wasting time and resources for whatever reason for people going to work and such then there should also be no holidays, no sports tournaments, concerts or any other large human activity. You could go on and on. Think of all the resources and time we could save! 

16 minutes ago, BreakMyWindow said:

I remember reading about a fatal crash involving a model s. Took iirc several olympic swimming pools worth of water to put the batt fire out. 
 

You’d think there’d be some training on common ev’s and how to disable HV for fire fighters…

I read the NTSB was suggesting "One way to deal with damaged batteries is to pull them from the vehicle and soak them in a saltwater bath to discharge the energy,"

High tech cars, high tech solution. Then what do they do with the contaminated water? 

6 minutes ago, polley said:

There is not a single street in the country where the electrical infrastructure is up to the task of everyone coming home and plugging in their EV. Couple that with the government wanting to get rid of gas how are factorys supposed to supply steam to their process? It's not uncommon for a small factory to have a 5MW boiler. And that's not even bringing into the question the generation side of it.

Mere details! Those business are gonna just have to suck it up and realise CO2 is evil and killing the planet, we needed zero carbon yesterday, until it's at 0ppm we are at risk from a climate catastrophe  - think of the future generations! 

Hey lads! Looking for some BMW 8 series 16" like pictured, any condition and any quantity - let me know if you know of any for sale cheers