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Thanks Mr T.

Sound



Well I got the car down off the blocks, and was able to drive it outside and have a good look at the exhaust.

It is the first time the system has been gas-tight, and although I have insulated the silencer from the sill (with plumbers mats) I have not yet got any heat wrap on the rest of it.

The plan is to get heat resistant padding in between the exhaust and the body/chassis where it is bolted on in order to minimise vibration.

In answer to Ollie, Wow! you have to hear the sound to believe it!
No one would ever think there was anything less than 3 liters under the bonnet making that lovely growl.

I can't wait for a drive-past at full belt!

In answer to Jaguartvr:

there is some slight vibration, but not a lot, and after the heat padding treatment it should minimise that even. I don't think I shall have to resort to plan "B".

With that sound, I don't mind checking all the nuts and bolts after every long trip!!

There must be some hard-up European soldier somewhere, who flogged his steel helmet on Ebay, who would be really amused to think some crazy Englishman had bolted his tin-hat to the side of his car!

Here are some better pictures of the thing itself:

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I forgot to add that today I bought some paint for the car, I chose "Connaught green" which is basically black, but in a certain light, there is a hint of dark green sometimes, providing you have 20-20 vision.

Connaught green is so dark, it does almost look black, so the bad luck should really be minimal Mr T?

Oh dear,

perhaps he should have chosen connaught green instead......

Mr T you really crack me up!

What was it that let you down?

Thanks Paul, well of course, the view will improve with the correct wheels doors paint etc!

Wow! That was areal can of worms there!!

Surely if that fouling was happening, you would hear some sort of "ticking" sound?
It certainly seems to be some sort of physical problem causing so many failures.

Some years ago, I had a problem with my GT6, at speed it was fine, but at tick-over it miss-fired terribly.
Turned out the bearings in the dizzy were very worn and it flopped about at slow revs, but centralised at high revs.
However, it never damaged the rotor arm at all.
Cannot imagine what could cause your kind of damage.

Its all in the spelling, Mr Toad....

Today

Well, having visited Stoneleigh, and been totally blitzed by some of the exotic creations I was bowled over by, I realised I needed a "bling-ring" for my new Monza petrol cap.

So I quickly knocked one out, made out of?

Stainless steel of course (as it's so cheap and plentyfull), bit fiddly cutting out. filing, sanding and polishing, but it's done now.

Then I realised I would have to make one for the gear lever, and one for the handbrake. Poosticks!

I must try not to get carried away and overdo the bling!

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It slipped my mind too, don't worry about it!

It's cheap enough to buy.

Today

When I put the louvres into the bonnet, it somehow slightly warped the shape of the curve at the rear near the windscreen end.

I was not happy with that, so I slit it, re-curved it, and got it wrong.

I then did it again, knowing it had to to come up half inch on the left side, quarter inch on the right, and so on. I clamped it into a jig I had made for that purpose.

I made it worse!

It began to dawn on me that the jig would have to be much more refined and perfect, if I was not going to have to do it a fourth time.

So that is my job today, (which for obvious reasons I have been avoiding like the bloody plague.

I will post the pics when I have some.

Morning work

Right, it's lunchtime and I'm having some.

Done most of the work, made the jig, sliced up the bonnet, clamped it in and re-done it all.

The pictures explain how I did it.

After lunch I will un-clamp the bonnet, fit it back on the car and see if it all worked.

If it doesn't, I'm sure you will all hear the swearing from wherever you live!

Watch this space........

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Lunch.

Well that's lunch over, back on my head.

The bonnet mods worked, as it is a good fit now.

Which just goes to show, the results you get out of a job, are proportional to the effort you put in.

Obviously the first two attempts I had, were kind of guessed-at, and consequently a total waste of time and effort.

It really pays to do a good job in the first place. ( Will I ever learn? probably not, but I will get there in the end)

At least I have what I want now, and can move on.
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BMW Steering wheel removal

WCA wrote: " thought I would try a Scottie style tutorial"

He got it terribly wrong, it should have looked like this:


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Don't try this at home people!

I hope you don't have to do yours three times like I did Paul!

I was stupid not to do it properly to start with!

But we all get it wrong at times... don't we?

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I have just bought a new toy, a sheet metal cutter.

I have owned hand nibblers, air nibblers, air shears and all sorts of like stuff, and still have most of them.

They all have one thing in common, they work, but only on really thin metal.

Give them some thick beefy steel and they are not really up to the job.

My new toy was chosen with care, it was not cheap, and is top of the range.
It will cut up to 4mm thickness of mild steel, 4mm of alluminium, and 2.7mm of stainless steel.

And it does all this in real style!

It absolutely batters it's way though it all,really quickly, and more importantly, does the cutting with no distortion.

It is 240v electric, and has a 625watt motor.

I just wish I had got one of these earlier. I can now plan more exotic stuff for the car, like stainless steel headlight surrounds, which ought to be a doddle to cut out with such a machine.

I shall be inventing jobs as an excuse to use it!!

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I don't have steel that thick to try it on, but that is what the sellers claim.

The way it cuts the steel I have, I wouldn't doubt it.
It's basically a large nibbler, a punch if you like, when cutting, it sounds like a machine gun and a shower of the punched out fragments fly toward the floor, really awesome!

Link to the monster cutter



Not having done a link before, I am not sure this will work, but here goes:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/261440051816?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649