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Not really sure where to put this: I actually sort of wanted to just make a thread out of a fairly productive email conversation I had last year with a bloke from Mercedes regarding vintage AMG bits for the W116. Covered a few topics though and this part obviously belongs in this subforum: W116...

Nice read(s), and good to serve as a reminder to those of us who never experienced these cars [even remotely close to] new. I couldn't help but chortle at the pics of the most worn rocker though... when I rip my engine apart later this year it'll be "hold my beer" time ;)

Lot 329 is a fantastic colour! ;)

Shut down Edge and Chrome when running Fusion, and close any parts you don't need open. That'll help alleviate the load on your GPU.

Oooouuuu, that green dash is 1100% nicer than my green dash. Had no idea I'd turn into such a green dash fancier. And with brown leather no less... Just realised it's probably a trick of the camera settings... but now I can't unsee it as a possibility...

Ef me. 8300 for the 633 CSi seems criminal, but then so is 11 for the fintail. Hope someone's actually going to restore the mkx jaaaaaaag and not just going to a happy wrecker...

Unsw Solar Racing Team are the current holders of the Transcontinental Record for Solar Cars at 5 days, 3 hours 11 minutes iirc. Set by Jaycar Sunswift 3 on Jan 15 2007. Sunrise to sunset driving only, 5kWh battery pack empty in Freeo. Carpark behind the beach to Opera House forecourt.

https://timesert.com.au/ No personal experience but advantage vs helicoil is supposedly the solid structure of the timesert vs the spiral of the helicoil. In the situation you mention I wouldn't be keen on a coil inside a coil... The bmw reputation I mentioned is tied to turbocharging the m54...

That interior colour/grain combo is beautiful

I wonder what else they did to the m117 besides the twin snails to get 500 horse at 6500... certainly seems like quite a redline bump from standard...

I've no experience of this exact job but in a situation where your (m100, right?) heads and manifold are actually quite valuable I'd be strongly favouring: A) avoiding any chance of a shanked bolt corroding and damaging the hole in the manifold, especially cracking it or pitting the sealing...

Theyll cool the valves better if the droplet size is smaller. Sure you may dump more fuel per cycle with a poorly atomised spray to get the same effective AFR but it's about heat transfer capacity (which favours surface area to volume ratio) more than it is about heat capacity of the liquid fuel...

If they're going to ITBs, why would they stick with the original injector location in the head when surely plugging those holes with a match to the port profile and siting the injectors immediately downstream of the throttle bodies would improve mixing, not to mention allow a more compact...

I wish Australia wasn't so fringe when it comes to Alpina. There seem to be a decent number of them in the UK so it's not a rhd thing, and the popularity of bmw here seems pretty high. Same for amg anything and the rs Audis of late so money's not the problem... And They Fixed The Awful Grille!!!!

"Das waren noch Zeiten!" eh? I wonder how long they ran each engine for before "passing" it...

€450. Not thousand. Max. As a modified car (and that heavily) it has no chance of ever getting german historic registration, and thus would be subject to ordinary registration and taxation requirements, and since its not Euro (what are we up to now?) 7? emissions compliant that means no Green...

Haha! Deja vu! I bought a 550i from Grays SA in 2021, only to discover a parking ticket under the driver's seat with its previous Vic rego. Put that into google and hohoho; sold by Grays Vic in 2019 with 120000km more on the clock than I bought it with, which massively explained why the cluster...

Yeah I'd do it the same way as you. That engine and transmission both I'd want to put back in the car only once ;)

Ahh ok. I would like to rebuild the 3 speed even if I do end up doing the engine swap (I'd eventually rebuild the m116 too, since it's original to the car as far as I can tell. I'd just keep them stored in case of future preservation-of-automotive-history desires). I'm conscious of the march of...

BTW: who did your 560 trans rebuild, and what should I expect to pay?