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I’ve checked the confirmed route of 20.2km in 11mins = 110.2kmh average speed! That’s fast considering there was at least 8 tight corners....

Oh I find it also interesting that the 6.9 cost $68505AUD in 1978, which was about double the cost of the average home. Being that the average price of a home in Melbourne is now $750000AUD, that would put the relative price of a 6.9 at $1.5M today! So a new S Class in today’s relative terms is...

Lastly (for now) here’s a couple of articles from the Gisborne & Macedon Telegraph; huge thanks to Ken & Kerry Patton who were running the publication for many years. The articles were published quite a few days later since the event was held too close to the previous publication deadline. Note...

St Johns as it appears today... This was where the event was based for the morning and church staff provided morning tea & refreshments. Note that 2 race cars were trucked to the location, plus the marquee. Media were transported by bus, but I’m unsure how Fangio & his interpreter arrived on...

This was found proudly displayed at the historic ‘Poltons’ garage, which is still in operation today. Poltons is only a few blocks away from the St Johns Anglican Parish in Riddells Creek which was the centre of ‘operations’ for the morning. Behind the wheel of the $36M Silver Arrow is John...

More info from Ian including a temporary MB sign he souvenir(ed) which was used by the marshalls on the ‘closed’ road. Seems they did encounter other motorists on the circuit, which could indicate many locals were unaware of the event.

Well my friends, yesterday I found the Holy Grail of my quest & I’m now approaching the end of my journey for the last decade! Re-discovered in the shed of the retired policeman from Riddells Creek, Ian Goss. These photographs are far better quality than the last set so I intend to...

Carobu did testing & found various restrictions. But I’ve not seen any documents detailing why they were designed this way in the first place

Slightly off topic some of the gadgets on the current BMWs are totally infuriating!! 🤬

Although the competition was good & potentially pushed Benz to develop their engines further, it also seems it encouraged Benz to respond with things like self closing doors. A neat gadget but really unnecessary & added complication, potential failure points, expense & extra weight. And of...

It is also worth observing that the early M119 featured a substantially different air filter housing despite still using K Jet. And the later M119 used a different intake manifold similar to the much earlier D Jet

It is interesting that in the latter development of the W126, Benz were suddenly competing with the 300hp BMW V12 which was introduced in 1987. In response, they developed the 220kW M117 which included higher compression, knock sensors & the Tri Y exhaust manifolds. Interesting that the...

I’m not aware of any raw data or evidence. I believe that up until the official AMG merger MB was focussed on reliability, comfort & safety. Performance & efficiency were not priorities & certainly nothing like the likes of Ferrari or Lamborghini. Yes there is definitely lots of room for...

Other observations about the factory housings are the snorkels are directing incoming air towards the internal hump or restriction plus the lid is concave directly above the air flap thereby decreasing headroom for incoming air to change direction. If anything the lid should be convex in that...

Looks like 2mm wall thickness was for stainless & not mild steel which is commonly 1.6mm

I think it’s all about good marketing without independent testing or real data to support their claims. Similar to Moreys oil additive and pretty much all fuel system ‘cleaners’

Yes however it’s still internally restrictive

Interesting that I noted my AU V8 exhaust became more muted over time which I put down to a loss of compression but could also be explained by exhaust deposits coating the inside of the system. If true it could also warrant deciding to go with a slightly larger diameter pipe. Given it seems...

BTW the title of this thread should be changed to ‘Restrictive Air Filter Assemblies’, since there’s nothing wrong with the actual filtering function

I was thinking something like a ‘shaker’ with an adapter for the CIS intake