Mambo Posted October 4 Share Posted October 4 On 16/09/2024 at 09:55, yoeddynz said: Once home I continued the search, checked all the bolts, used bluetack to seal any suspicious gaps but no luck. I've not nailed the spot but I think it’s around the plenum chamber or possibly something funny in the throttle body. I got annoyed, gave up and we just went for another hoon to the beach for walk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mambo Posted October 4 Share Posted October 4 long time since I had a duck on the beach 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoeddynz Posted October 4 Author Share Posted October 4 Took me several hours of waiting to get that shot. Animal photography Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post yoeddynz Posted October 12 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 12 Tuning the handling Barry style... 6 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truenotch Posted October 16 Share Posted October 16 You're finally listening to those wise folk! Don't forget to fill the tyres with water for extra traction too. 1 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post yoeddynz Posted October 16 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 16 Fuck man- I put that pic up on the facebook imp page just as a piss take and the amount of Barries that have come out of hiding to congratulate me on my chassis tuning, mostly also with their own stories on which heavy items worked best... 4 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiTurbo228 Posted October 16 Share Posted October 16 On 12/10/2024 at 02:03, yoeddynz said: Tuning the handling Barry style... I think you mean tuning the handling Porsche style... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tortron Posted October 16 Share Posted October 16 2 out of test D oxy acet bottles, chained in place, were the go to for the bongo ute Made loading and unloading anything out the tailgate a pain however. Making them into a rear crashbar/bumper you can stand on would be better 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post yoeddynz Posted October 16 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 16 7 hours ago, BiTurbo228 said: I think you mean tuning the handling Porsche style... I bet the porsche FB pages are not filled with Barries explaining how to make a car with the engine at the wrong end handle. But would be fun to wind some 911 owners on one of their pages... "I had an imp when I was young and it railed around the corners like it was glued to the road because I'd put a sack of concrete in the front. I fondly remember overtaking a 911 on a twisty road. He couldn't keep up on the corners. Might I suggest you guys try the same trick and add some ballast to the front of your cars" Barry. 2 3 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nominal Posted October 16 Share Posted October 16 What happens when you crash your concrete porsche? 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Posted October 16 Share Posted October 16 11 hours ago, BiTurbo228 said: I think you mean tuning the handling Porsche style... Worth noting that the gist of the article is that poor manufacturing tolerances were mostly to blame. You cant compare what those notoriously sloppy and imprecise Germans are up to, to the finest Scottish craftsmanship! It's only a rumour, but apparently some of the cars were actually assembled by people who were partially sober 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiTurbo228 Posted October 17 Share Posted October 17 20 hours ago, Roman said: Worth noting that the gist of the article is that poor manufacturing tolerances were mostly to blame. You cant compare what those notoriously sloppy and imprecise Germans are up to, to the finest Scottish craftsmanship! It's only a rumour, but apparently some of the cars were actually assembled by people who were partially sober If there's anything the Germans have excelled themselves at it's marketing. Case 1: 'German engineering excellence' (have you tried do anything at all maintenance-related on an Audi, or the litany of bearing failures on S54s and S65s, or their love of single-row timing chains, or Mercedes' biodegradeable wiring insulation, or 'lifetime gearbox oil changes', or...) Case 2: '50/50 weight distribution is the ideal' (it's not, anything approaching 40/60 is better for a RWD performance car) Case 3: 'Inline 6s are the perfect engine configuration' (I like a good I6, I own 3, but they're heavily compromised. They're overly long, which limits packageable bore size, which means many use overlong strokes to gain displacement and limits potential valve diameter. Their long noodly cranks are susceptible to harmonic resonance like no other engine configuration, which is made worse by any effort to improve upon bore spacing or stroke. The fact they need comparatively small bores and long strokes to get a given displacement packaged properly means they have to either be very tall, or compromise on terrible rod/stroke ratios. All of this adds together to an engine configuration that is comparatively difficult/expensive to gain power by added displacement or additional revs as one severely limits the other...beyond a certain point of course). Yours sincerely A fan of British cars that were largely outcompeted by German ones...not bitter or biased at all...honest guv. 4 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tortron Posted October 17 Share Posted October 17 If the germans had won the war, the morris minor would have sold a billion 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igor Posted October 17 Share Posted October 17 1 hour ago, tortron said: If the germans had won the war, the morris minor would have gone for a burton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Posted October 17 Share Posted October 17 1 hour ago, BiTurbo228 said: If there's anything the Germans have excelled themselves at it's marketing. Yeah I remember this one guy had this real crazy idea and shit got wild 2 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiTurbo228 Posted October 17 Share Posted October 17 1 hour ago, tortron said: If the germans had won the war, the morris minor would have sold a billion If the Germans had won the war, Alec 'bachelor his entire life with no romantic attachments that lived with his mother until she died at 86' Issigonis may not have had the employment opportunities he would otherwise have enjoyed. Of course, Britain was hardly a utopia in that regard either, considering what we did to Mr Turing... 42 minutes ago, Roman said: Yeah I remember this one guy had this real crazy idea and shit got wild Ah, you must be talking about Martin Luther and the invention of Protestantism (in Wittenberg, Germany), dividing Europe along violently partisan religious lines for the next 500 years. Yet more evidence of German marketing prowess (convincing millions of Catholics that the Pope isn't actually the head of the church sounds like it should be an impossible feat...). Who else could you possibly be talking about? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igor Posted October 18 Share Posted October 18 2 hours ago, Roman said: Yeah I remember this one guy had this real crazy idea and shit got wild That guy was actually Austrian I believe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiTurbo228 Posted October 18 Share Posted October 18 11 hours ago, igor said: That guy was actually Austrian I believe. Ah, you must mean the Habsburgs. You know, the royals who managed to successfully convince practically every single royal family within Europe to marry them despite becoming progressively and horrendously inbred. See, marketing! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VitesseEFI Posted October 18 Share Posted October 18 On 17/10/2024 at 00:11, Roman said: It's only a rumour, but apparently some of the cars were actually assembled by people who were partially sober But still out of their heads on deep-fried mars bars….. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregT Posted October 18 Share Posted October 18 5 hours ago, VitesseEFI said: But still out of their heads on deep-fried mars bars….. And square sausage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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