Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Are they Lotus wheels like this

someone on retrorides has put htem on his pimped-out cactus so they are Citroen bcd

You've got to be an absolute nerd to get this one and luckily I know a few

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No centre cap and absolutely fucking batshit rare.

Work's first ever forged wheel.

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I nearly said it’s likely they are a JDM wheel if they’re in NZ, we don’t really get any European rims here which rules out Zenders etc

Bloody hell, I even searched "Work Turbo Fans" and "Work Aero Wheels" and didn't find those! Very cool!

Nice sleuthing Sherlock Holmes.

Super nice wheel.

Top sleuthing. I spent waaaay longer than I should have today trying to work out what they were.

That's hilarious even I spend 5 minutes looking

that cactus is disturbingly cool - feeling strange urges to get one....

Amazing. But also, that xantia wagon is damn cool. Can't tell if the accumulator is just leaking or they have it permanently set to low

Looks great doesn't it. I think all he's done is paint the wheelarch trims in the body colour, put those smaller black wheels on and lowered. Makes a massive difference to stock though.

Cheers man!

Bottom end built, dial indicator on - crank is misaligned. This is a brand new, never been used before, Boxster-S, final/large IMSB shortblock direct from Porsche and it will need to come apart to be rectified. Balls.

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What does that mean and how many left the factory like that? Eek! Is it likely to be the crank itself or a bad bearing... either way, that sucks.

It's how the block has been machined to accept the cam carrier, and the engine builder says 'most of them are like that from factory", which is, erm, not great. But clearly most are fine with it.

Given the increase in load that this one will see this isn't good enough and the engine will come apart again for this to be fixed.

the engine will come apart again for this to be fixed.

Sounds cheap.

Porsche really did drop a bollock on engine quality didn't they.

A friend of mine has had 8 Boxsters and 911s and 5 of them needed replacement engines.

Well, this is a tolerance issue - specifically a machining to tolerance issue I suspect.

The issue is compounded by the design of these engines, which have a crank carrier that sits inside the engine block itself, and which therefore has to align perfectly.

So it's a manufacturing problem and one might suggest the design didn't help.

But then Porsche had been making basically the same engine for 50 years so some teething problems when they made a new one were hardly surprising. The design issues that Porsche left in will all be rectified, and we'll be building them to extremely precise tolerances (blueprinting, essentially), and this whilst extensive will still come in at a lower cost than a rebuild on a Mezger.

Because they tell you you should have bought a convertible Volvo instead? I know this because I know about cars

BM Sport in Bexleyheath, Jags & Nigel
https://www.bmsport.com/

or ETA Motorsport West Kingsdown, Matt
http://www.etamotorsport.co.uk/

Got any reccos for South West? I'm just outside Exmouth at the moment and although I need to go back to Sidcup eventually, it's a long way just to get the car fiddled.

Thanks bud -- booked it into BMsport tomorrow morning.

Ha, ha sorry I have been working nights and busy at home so didn't even switch the PC on until today :D

Good lads down there. :D