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Ray White
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 Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2019 4:04 pm Post subject: Sublime workmanship |
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This is something I thought you all might like to see. This morning I took delivery of my new "extractor" manifold. This is designed specifically to go with the Eaton M45 supercharger that I am fitting to my MG TC. The workmanship is brilliant and in my humble opinion is not short of an automotive work of art.
Performance comes at a price but I am hoping to have something worth having at the end of it.
I hope you like it.
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Rick
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Rootes75
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Very nice workmanship.
One of the very few things that I had re-made professionally for my Commer was its fuel tank. It cost a lot of money but was so worth it, the craftsmanship was superb and sometimes it has to be done and simply admired.
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peter scott
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| Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2019 4:47 pm Post subject: Re: Sublime workmanship |
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Ray, that does look nice. Are you going to give it a name?
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Ray White
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| Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2019 6:21 pm Post subject: Re: Sublime workmanship |
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| peter scott wrote: |
Ray, that does look nice. Are you going to give it a name?
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As it's an "extractor" you can imagine what I am thinking 
...come to think of it Mickey the MG doesn't sound too bad.....  |
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Rootes75
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'Extractor' sounds like it should be an Arnie film..
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Ray White
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| Rootes75 wrote: | | 'Extractor' sounds like it should be an Arnie film.. |
If I learned how to do it I could make a film of the rebuild. My reaction to some of the howlers old Henry has made would probably give it an X rating. When I dropped the sump there was not a split pin in sight. The reground crank not only had excessive clearances but had suffered scoring from dirty oil as the 60 year old oil filter had not been changed. I spent an hour this morning trying to remove an incorrect size big end bolt from a con rod. He had forced the bolt into the rod and to add injury to insult forced on a nut to fit it. In the end I had to cut it off with the angle grinder and drift the rest out using heat. The rod is probably ruined and a new set costs over a grand!  |
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