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Surely the spring shops re temper the leaves. Bending them in multiple places like that will play havoc with the harness at each of those bend points.

I'd live in that.

+1 Awesome shed.

Go for the 1600 man. If you need an engine crane to use just give Zac a yell/ message me here would be more than happy to give you a hand with the swap if you do decide to go that way. Trying to make power out of the 1300 is a lost cause you will end up spending a lot of money for in the end a very average engine.

Definitely customer service, I have gone into a few places where the customer service is terrible, people not seeming to care/ being hard to deal with puts you off even trying those places again for parts.

Resene make a magnetic paint works quite well but is textured and there is now a rusty wall in my house.

I would say you will be hard pressed to find a filler that is magnetic, as apart from being able to get a dodgy WOF it would be a less than ideal filler, bog starts rusting too etc.

recently inherited (well my dad did but ill get to use it whenever) my grandfathers old Myford lathe, so happy about it, more tolling than you can point a stick at, two days in his old workshop and we were continuously finding more and more tooling he had for it. I would definitely suggest checking this stuff out in person, i know this lathe im getting has had to have a few things replaced on it over the years and that was with an absolutely pedantic owner, i can only imagine the damage a careless operator could do to these old machines with manual oiling etc.

I use kero and various brushes followed by a wash down with old petrol. I also have used it in a little squirty bottle with an engine above a large drip pan, managed to keep it pretty contained, compared to the spray on hose off stuff.

Does it turn over fine? Is your battery in good condition?

What Fliboy said. Mountain bike handle bars would be mean.

Se5 or 5a? the 5's (earlier models) are much more a hand crafted car and differ with separate reversing lights, recessed door cards and less plasticy dash's (read awesome dashes with toggle switches)

like this:

I would definitely be interested in getting some photos and some more details. If the paint is somewhat reasonable i would be super keen. Already have 1 NOS windscreen but hey another wouldn't hurt. I'm hoarding way too much of these things .

as for if its a bit fucked - still interested i have about 2 of everything now.

black roof, rattle can that shit now.

Yea i searched for the ratios and they are quite undesirable for the Essex v6 (which i initially brought it with the intention of using it with). However i have now been toying with the idea of a Honda v6 (j30a), would not be the easiest swap but would definitely be different.

Cheers thanks for that.

Hi would someone be able to confirm what this gearbox is? From looking at pictures I'm fairly sure its a R154 but then some information relating to the bellhousing bolt pattern seems to conflict with this.

Also what are my bellhousing options? I am not concerned about the engine end as i will be making an adapter plate to suit the engine just one that will bolt up to the gearbox.

Cheers.

Thought this was you. ( I'm Zac's brother) +1 for more slam and fix the front

electrolosis efficiency

Electrolysis will never be 100% efficient, with this in mind you always have to get that electricity from somewhere, wasted spark- energy comes from the cars battery - charged by the alternator- run by the engine which is powered from petrol. It doesn't matter how much research is done into it, you still are effectively trying to do the same thing as having a electric motor, powered by batteries, running a generator to recharge its own batteries. Take the best batteries/motor/generator conceivable, it wont run forever. Its just a fact, you cannot create energy. Why waste energy turning a perfectly good fuel (petrol) into another fuel (Hydrogen)? its a waste of time, instead just use the fuel you have in a more efficient way.

Yea ^^ this, Hydrogen is a fuel, water is not.

http://waterisnotafuel.com

End of story. Doesn't matter what you have heard no one ever did and no one ever will run a car on water.

+1 for gunmetal, would be fucking sweet.

from wikipedia:

Electrolysis of water

Main article: Electrolysis of water

One important use of electrolysis of water is to produce hydrogen.

2 H2O(l) → 2 H2(g) + O2(g); E0 = +1.229 V

Hydrogen can be used as a fuel for powering internal combustion engines by combustion or electric motors via hydrogen fuel cells (see Hydrogen vehicle). This has been suggested as one approach to shift economies of the world from the current state of almost complete dependence upon hydrocarbons for energy (See hydrogen economy.)

The energy efficiency of water electrolysis varies widely. The efficiency is a measure of what fraction of electrical energy used is actually contained within the hydrogen. Some of the electrical energy is converted to heat, an almost useless byproduct. Some reports quote efficiencies between 50% and 70%.[5] This efficiency is based on the Lower Heating Value of Hydrogen. The Lower Heating Value of Hydrogen is total thermal energy released when hydrogen is combusted minus the latent heat of vaporisation of the water. This does not represent the total amount of energy within the hydrogen, hence the efficiency is lower than a more strict definition. Other reports quote the theoretical maximum efficiency of electrolysis as being between 80% and 94%.[6] The theoretical maximum considers the total amount of energy absorbed by both the hydrogen and oxygen. These values refer only to the efficiency of converting electrical energy into hydrogen's chemical energy. The energy lost in generating the electricity is not included. For instance, when considering a power plant that converts the heat of nuclear reactions into hydrogen via electrolysis, the total efficiency is more likely to be between 25% and 40%.[citation needed]

That is in an ideal situation, you wont be getting those sort of efficiencies doing this in your car. Instead of wasting fuel to burn fuel more efficiently you would be better off making sure your car is running/tuned correctly.

crating hydrogen from water is always going to take energy, you need to get this energy from somewhere -the cars engine, this takes petrol, you will NEVER gain anything from doing this at best you will see no change in fuel economy, but more likely there would actually be a reduction in fuel economy from the losses involved in supplying the electricity to create the hydrogen.

This isn't to say hydrogen powered cars are not a viable future solution, hydrogen gas is a good way to store a lot of energy in a light and small form, however it will never be produced in the vehicle more than likely from renewable energy resources (solar wind etc) where you do not need to worry about efficiency as much.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watt's_linkage

Wikipedia suggests they do need to be equal, however it wouldn't be hard to check using a few pieces of steel/wood/whatever and marking where the center point travels on paper.

Got given a pair of these

will probably cut the turned down end off and run them at the rear, using my old rear resonators up the front, they are probably far too big of a diameter for the engine but hey they were free

You could possibly try emailing the company that produces them to et a more detailed specifications

http://www.snapaction.net/index.htm?include=mx5.inc

also these seem to be the same sort of thing but i have not had any personal experience with this brand unlike the others.

http://www.wiringproducts.com/contents/en-us/d28.html

With the first breakers i was talking about they will automatically reset either straight away (before breaking again) to control the current or they may reset after a set time, it is a while since i have tripped them, although i could test this if you wish.

Im afraid i cant give any more help in where to attain them, or if they are even available in the country as the ones i use have all been imported from the USA.