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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.

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2 out of test D oxy acet bottles, chained in place, were the go to for the bongo ute

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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

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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

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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.

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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 

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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? ;)

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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!

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