Ping Timo

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1992-BMW-M5-E34-with-only-42-000-miles-and-FBMWSH_W0QQitemZ4606968061

Still looking for an M5?

 

HFM?! Not for a LHD motor. you can pick up a really nice RHD one for that
money.
Timo got an RX7 after all.

JB

 

JB scribbled on the back of a napkin:

Indeed. He actually just paid for it, and a tad more than I wanted but
hey...

At the end of the day it's from a well-known specialist, the engine has
100 miles on it (freshly rebuilt) and I'll get two years warranty on
the engine. Oh, and they're fitting a new (part) roof[1] at cost...

[1] It's a convertible and they *all* go in the same place.

 

Reeesult. Warranty on the engine too. Useful, very useful.

The new roof sections a bit dear then I take it?

JB

 

Bear scribbled on the back of a napkin:

Oh great...

The reason for this is due to the combustion chamber shape, which is
fairly inefficient. After all, it's shaped like a banana and not nice
and round like on a piston engine.

In order to make it fire from cold, the fuel injection dumps huge
amounts of fuel into the engine for the first couple of minutes. Once
it warms up the amount of fuel is slowly reduced until it approaches
something resembling a normal amount of fuel.

Due to the inefficient combustion chamber shape a lot of the fuel that
gets chucked in intially doesn't burn properly, even though the engine
has two spark plugs fitted to each chamber.

So basically, she's flooded the engine and then probably tried to crank
it to get it to fire up again which resulted in more fuel being dumped
into the engine, thus having the plugs asking for Old Man Noah's phone
number.

There's no need to get a dealer involved in something like this, at
least not on a seven (should be the same for an eight). What you do is
you pull the FI relay so it stops fuelling. Then you remove all four
spark plugs and crank then engine. Get someone to watch and tell you
when it stops chucking out fuel through the plug holes. Once that's
done you dry the plugs (handy if you've got a lighter), screw them back
in and it should fire. Well, after you remembered that you forgot to
put in the FI relay...

 

JB scribbled on the back of a napkin:

It's what I thought. Especially because the newly rebuilt engine means
that I can run it in properly and make sure that it gets warmed up
properly before being driven hard and all that, without having to deal
with the fallout from other people's mechanical non-sympathy.

For a flappy piece of vinyl, yes, extremely so. While a lot of the
parts for these cars aren't that expensive - mostly if and when they're
shared with the coupe - some parts are priced to remind you that back
in the late 80s this was Mazda's top of the range car in both the US
and Europe.

TBH if this one goes while I've still got the car I'll get a mohair
roof from the US as they're a lot more durable but even more expensive.
The vinyl roof stretches in the areas behind the doors and eventually
rips because (I think) there's too much stress on those areas.

 

And so it begins......

 

*Boggle*

 

[/QUOTE]

Don't tell me you've never done this? This sort of application is a
primary reason I habitually use a Zippo. More effective with a
blowtorch, but best to hold the ceramic section with a rag rather than
skin.

Best not to use the gas grill in your Mum's cooker, as when the
enthusiastic blue flame that appears as the fuel burns off makes an
appearance between the rings on the cooker top, Mums tend to get a
little jittery.

PS. The Attribution Police will be round shortly.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, The Older

*WHOOOOMPH*

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - There are few things in life more sinister than a
public toilet with the lid closed.

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Any pictures of it naked on the internet?

 

I used to warm the plugs in an old Yam 250 by putting them under the
grill for about 10 minutes on really icy mornings. It wasn't a big
deal to take them out when the kettle was boiling and let them warm up
while I was drinking a cuppa. Much better than fucking about bump
starting the bike which was the other option.

 

I've heated up plugs as well. Just slightly alarmed at the prospect of
doing it with an engine that evidently floods as copiously as a Mazda
rotary.

 

Grimly Curmudgeon scribbled on the back of a napkin:

Not yet. I'm supposed to pick it up on the 11th. Will stick a few
photos up especially for you...

 

Too kind. Us lun... enthusiasts must stick together.

 

When I was looking to buy my car, one of the things I looked at was PCP
(lease) - 40p a mile for amounts over the agreed amount was pretty
common so what she paid is by no mean unusual.

I got a loan in the end and own the car instead ;-)

 

Grimly Curmudgeon scribbled on the back of a napkin:

Indeed. Mutual support group and all that.