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From: Noddy on 19 Sep 2009 19:54 "Clocky" <nicetry(a)migo.com> wrote in message news:003ee796$0$2968$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com... > This one is a little bit better > > http://mk1-performance-conversions.co.uk/arden_eng.htm > > from > > http://mk1-performance-conversions.co.uk/arden_eng.htm I did see that one, and while it's a good picture it doesn't show the Weber style inlet bolt pattern as well as the other picture with the fuel injection system I thought, which is what I was trying to demonstrate. There's a few pics around of modern day Mini's running Arden heads but I was looking for something original so Oz couldn't say "that's not how they were". -- Regards, Noddy.
From: Noddy on 20 Sep 2009 01:08 "Dyna Soar" <dynasoar..REMOVE..THIS..(a)ozdebate.com> wrote in message news:7hlcc8F2tmqeqU1(a)mid.individual.net... > :-) > Jeeze, he'd never get the chance. > Anyway, he's just the typical keyboard warrior, making bullshit threats he > knows will never happen. His word is as honourable as OzLiar's. No > wonder they're such "good friends". Yep :) -- Regards, Noddy.
From: Noddy on 20 Sep 2009 01:12 "John McKenzie" <jmac_melbourne(a)bigpond.com> wrote in message news:4AB58D18.747C(a)bigpond.com... > I was going to say plastic cement, but then I remembered Revell also did > some 'snap together' model kits, suit ages 'retard and up' ROTFL :) > Oz knew all that, he just forgot to type it earlier. He was > busy/distracted taking a picture of his remote control 1:24 scale mini > and paint shopping it to look lifesize. I'll bet :) > I'm surprised, genuinely, that he hasn't tried to pass himself off as > David Vizard yet. Yeah, me too, or at least dreamed up some connection with the bloke. Maybe it was him who he flew to England to buy the cylinder head from in the first place. > Now what was that racing category again??? Any money bet that we'll never know :) > And how were the webers 'shortened' to fit under a bonnet not mandated? > > And what was the twin weber, 1 barrel to 2 ports of the arden head > adapter called, and who made it, and what drugs were they on to even > think of such stupidity? His "friends" most likely, who were probably as big a showbag as he is. -- Regards, Noddy.
From: D Walford on 22 Sep 2009 03:30 hippo wrote: > There is no way a Minor or 1800 exhaust manifold could be considered a > performance product, much as I like both vehicles. (It gets worse. I've > owned four Saabs and a Herald as well.) "MoWoG" per se indicates *nothing* > specifically about special tuning product, which was just as likely either > to be uncoded or given an Abingdon specific branding. Cheers > That's the way I remember it, if MoWog means special tuning parts then every BMC car I've owned or worked on was full of special tuning parts. Daryl
From: Noddy on 22 Sep 2009 03:37
"hippo" <am9obmhAc2hvYWwubmV0LmF1(a)REGISTERED_USER_usenet.com.au> wrote in message news:h99ga3$i6j$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > Ok, I've had enough. I've read this with interest for the last umpty days > but this is getting silly. "Morris Garages", later MG, started life > rebuilding, rebodying and tuning Morrises; later becoming a manufacturer. > "MoWoG" *maybe* stands for "Morris & Wolseley Garages", "Morris & Wolseley > Group", or "Morris, Wolseley & MG". The middle one is the one I have heard > for most of my over 50 years, the first one for about half that time and > the third only relatively recently. It was also explained in the 60s and > 70s as "Morris Works, Oxford Group". Whichever, it shows up on pretty well > *any* cast iron part fitted on the line to any Morris, BMC, BL or BLMC for > half a century or so. > > There is no way a Minor or 1800 exhaust manifold could be considered a > performance product, much as I like both vehicles. (It gets worse. I've > owned four Saabs and a Herald as well.) "MoWoG" per se indicates *nothing* > specifically about special tuning product, which was just as likely either > to be uncoded or given an Abingdon specific branding. Cheers Agreed 100%, and that's pretty much what I said in my last reply to Oz. -- Regards, Noddy. |