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    Mercedes V8 Inlet Manifolds

    Possibilities: 1) Patent portfolio contributes substantially to their investor relations, it's just patent-as-product. 2) They don't know it doesn't work. And they don't know it does. They're happy to let someone else fund that experimentation. 3) They know the patent wouldn't be enforceable for...
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    Mercedes V8 Inlet Manifolds

    No worries. I found my last job pretty eye opening regarding the reality of tech innovation vs IP protection, totally different to the preconceptions I had which, in hindsight, were heavily skewed by patent lawyer marketing. Happy to discuss how/if what minimal insights I have to the tech...
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    Mercedes V8 Inlet Manifolds

    Please don't take this as criticism, I certainly have no idea of the ins and outs of your project (obviously), financing, production capability nor market analysis. It's pretty obvious to me that everyone in the local "photonics/optical physics/future tech" world (a part of which was my...
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    Car of the week

    in honour of the recent replies to Dave's "convertible W116" thread, Grays has organised an W126-based "tribute"... https://www.grays.com/lot/0001-10054389/classic-cars/1981-mercedes-benz-w126-500se-automatic-convertible
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    M117 450 - 370bhp

    Is that a header pipe running along the valley in the space where the intake manifold usually sits? Mad....
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    W140 600SEL

    I think a substantial number of the S600s still active are finding themselves straightpiped by brats half my age to earn instagram/tiktok clicks by "trolling supercar meets with an old merc sedan that sounds like a Pagani Zonda, lol, rofl, skibidi, etc." At least that's the answer Google seems...
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    Auto Brunch Event - St Ives

    Some extremely nice cars there (although I had a good laugh at the XF Falcon hobnobbing with the *objectively* nice/valuable cars... guess my ute deserves such an outing now...). I was especially moved^ by the Meteor Gray Porsche 911 (I think its a 964 but I dunno air-cooled 911 series that...
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    Car of the week

    Ohhh ouch. $300 less than what I paid and leaking or not at least it runs and doesn't need months of faffing with aftermarket suspension just to get it off its guts and in the shed. Someone got a bargain!
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    Car of the week

    Another red 6. This time a W116 though. I'd be tempted if I didn't already have the Disco Panzer. Looks like a lot less work and I've a soft spot for carbies...
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    Transmissons move on

    Sean you'd love the musical chairs they play with dual cab utes: many are made in Thailand, and the general consensus seems to be that 2 or more marques share each chassis: the Amarok and Ranger are the same car with different panels and engine options and iirc the Nissan Navara is related, the...
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    C107's C107

    Oh man, the ossified window tints trigger such PTSD for me... Every car I've pulled tint off has had the layer separation, even a 2007 golf I did in 2022ish. But by far the worst was the hatch on my RX7: as if lying on my back in the boot to work overhead wasn't bad enough, Mazda applied a...
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    Disco Panzer

    Went to visit Team Global Express today. Picked up a nicely wrapped present from a wrecker in Victoria. Nothing special [sighs forlornly at the M117 ECE that might have been], but maybe I can make it something useful...
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    Disco Panzer

    365g/min = 487cc/min assuming a middle-of-the-rd specific gravity of fuel of 0.75g/cc. If anyone has measured a D-Jet (ideally 117.983) fuel injector's flow rate I'd love to know if it really was within 10% of 490cc/min. If so that'd be fantastic news as 500-700cc injectors are by far the most...
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    Car of the week

    Wrong vin? Surely it has to match what's on the firewall, no?
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    M117 450 - 370bhp

    In fact, pausing the relevant shot: Can be taken as an indication of a 6200-6400rpm redline and 2.2-2.3kg/cm^2 target boost pressure, since they've clocked the gauges for "what you want to see" being needle-at-12-o'clock when the car is vibrating too much to read the scale. Of course that...
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