Recent content by ProfessorExperimental

https://www.lloydsonline.com.au/LotDetails.aspx?smode=0&aid=68372&lid=5771167 They've added a few more lots BTW there's a Morris minor van on there that drove behind us the other day (presumably on way to lloyds). Sat nice on the road and the couple driving it didn't look stressed. Nice car.

Wow, 4 grand already for a carbie six vs *ahem* 16 dollars for the 450... looks like the Benz market is picking up again if they're in decent nick, but backyard restos are nobody's game anymore 😪

Make friends with the local Benz parts hoarder, eg mb classic star or whatever. A lot of the bigger wreckers have closed down so Facebook marketplace/gumtree isn't what it used to be. There are good deals on some parts via ebay from Turkey (the guy with nos door seals and iirc he does electrical...

All cars are happier running slightly richer ;) Until they start fouling plugs and sticking their rings of course!

Actually, come to think if it, wtf is the actual problem here: doesn't the car run just fine with the vac line to the can disconnected and plugged so it doesn't create a vacuum leak from the manifold? It's a vacuum retard, right, for less N2 emissions at idle and reduced knock sensitivity to...

[Assuming the 6 3 starters are built like the w116 v8 ones, they sure look identical] If the battery is a bit weak it can voltage sag enough under load that it can't push the pinion out far enough to slot past the ring gear teeth. Then the motor contact doesn't close (fortunately) so the motor...

According to my google-fu and https://jetronic.org/de/forum/ignition/498-ersatz-fuer-unterdruckdose-am-zuendverteiler-w116-motor-450-se-bj-72 the Bosch part number for a 72 euro 450se is 1237121927 (which is Benz part A0001583018 if you're interested), so an assumption worth testing might be...

Was helped immensely by exposure on Top Gear. Ben Collins (the stig) made it a bit of a mission to help them "fix" the first car to bring out its potential, he was very impressed with what they had acheived but also their willingness to take feedback. I guess it was the back-then equivalent of...

Recall we eventually worked out that the Mampe car would've had to have many key components close to factory standard, since the series was a homologation one. I guess intake manifold may have been free, but usually under such circumstances throttle body (or at least venturi diameter) isn't. I'd...

I researched this to death when I thought I was getting the Disco Panzer back on the road "imminently" and again when making what I thought was the final push with the ute (which takes the same size on the front). Blair's Tyres in Peakhurst apparently deal Kenda tyres, and they had a suitable...

Referred at $37000, not bad, but c'mon Grays, "cylinders: 6"; really! 🤦‍♂️

Having bid on a fairly "yo bro" spec Nissan skyline to (cheaply) replace my crashed daily I'm pretty confident even a substantially lower highest bid and 20+ bidders won't convince the vendor they've misread the market, and poor Jeb from Lloyd's will be calling through the bidder list saying...

Kudos on resisting The Tyranny Of SUVs... Automotive dark ages right now. I didn't think new Kia Carnevals looked that bad, until I saw one parked in the parent spots at work: no wonder they named it after a cruise line. Makes 80s volvo wagons (which sat 7 and seemed like apartment blocks at the...

Wow! Bit far off the "$14k-19k" guide price yet!

My car (uk spec 350SE, no seatbelts from MB, 77? ish build, 78 import) also has "that can't be right" mileage (64k). The one option it seems to have been fitted with ex factory (other than tex/plaid seats, style must come first...) is the frankly ginormous long wave radio antenna box, an...