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  1. ProfessorExperimental

    S500 For Sale

    I'll send you a pm in a minute. Among all the other excuses I have for not progressing my 350se (and not reporting here what I have done) I can now add "my daily drive got written off by an inattentive p plater last week" so I'd better make a time to come take a look!
  2. ProfessorExperimental

    My Love for the W116 1979 450SE Silver green

    Great car and very nice photography too. I'm especially grateful for the emblem shot showing the (I assume) zipties holding something on to the grille: otherwise it'd look too perfect!
  3. ProfessorExperimental

    How to calculate wheel offset

    Not to mention centre bore diameter (use hubcentric rings if wheel CB > original wheels, aluminium from eBay are ok but sometimes hard to fit, polymer from hubcentric-rings.com were the first I found readily available and imo still the best, plus they're marked), and the (in Germany anyway)...
  4. ProfessorExperimental

    Alpine Brand?

    This was sent to me with the caption "I present to you: The Death of Design" [Edit] when I lived in Germany in 2009 a bloke in a village on my regular commute had an *original* Alpine 110 that he kept uncovered at the side of his house, easily visible from the overpass of the main road. I used...
  5. ProfessorExperimental

    Patricks Trucks

    Cheers, "Professor" is for the foreseeable future an ironic epithet ;)
  6. ProfessorExperimental

    Patricks Trucks

    But that's not really that different to 50 years ago. Sure a few manufacturers had in house (nearly) everything, like MB, but Ford and GM (in the states, not to mention here) used eg Muncie, Borg Warner etc. transmissions, supplied rear ends and so on. All Japanese manufacturers were car...
  7. ProfessorExperimental

    Red Bull (5541)

    on the waterpump/balancer interference: are you *sure* you need to pull the pump forwards out of the block? Just checked out a german repair video* on an m116-engined C107 (couldn't find anything m100, natch) and *that* pump the impeller doesn't look to sit "in" the block at all, i.e. if the...
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