Wocha bin doin on your MG this week then?

It’s a satisfying job ridding yourself of all the original rusting hardware & replacing them with chrome & stainless items. I don’t like those nylon inserts used for self tappers; where possible I replace them with rivinuts & fit stainless machine screws. There’s the possibility of a corrosion cell forming between the aluminium & stainless, so a bit of Molislip is a good idea.
M

Thanks to MGFnTFbitz for the under bonnet bling



Goodbye to the mixed, rusty and corroded garbage that was there ...

 

 

 Making one of my mates rooms into a  workshop  and helping him put one of his race  BMW M1000RR moterbikes back to standard .  he has two others as well in the garage and did have another but was hit from behind at 170mph  in Spain that set him and the bike  on fire and shatterd several bones  2 years ago lol 

EDIT , I wasnt sure how fast they are as I`ve never asked him, so I have just googled it 
The BMW M1000RR has an electronically limited top speed of around 314 km/h (195 mph), though some race-prepped versions or modified bikes claim higher speeds (like 372 km/h or 232 mph) 

  Not an unusual use of house space............ A mate of mine had the spare room set up as a motorcycle workshop for his Motor Guzzis, he called it the Sheltered Workshop! 
Another mate lived in a share house with like minded mates and would ride into the lounge up over the couch of the front verandah, though the open window and down the couch inside the couches were used as ramps when not being sat on!
I knew another bloke who lived in an old weatherboard house, (timber clad timber frame) who did his MG TC restoration in the back bedroom........he carried in the chassis and all the parts separately and assembled it inside (nice and warm during winter) and when the car was finished, he cut the outside wall away with a chainsaw in order to drive the car out as it wouldn't fit through the single doorway! 
Though none of these set ups looked as swish as that, they were all a bit rough and ready!

Another mate kept his rare BMW MKM 1000 Kruaser on display in the living room when not riding it, 
And there was a bloke in Sydney who had his brand new Elfin MS8 Streamliner craned up to his penthouse apartment to be an used as an artwork.
and another in Sydney who had his old F5000 race car mounted to the extremely reinforced wall, that one looked fantastic!

For those of you who don't know what an Elfin Strearmliner is:
 

An Aussie built sportscar that was avialible in both Clubman (blue) and Sreamliner (gold) versions powered by a Gen3 5.7 alloy Chev V8
Someone who most of you will remember, Tom Walkinshaw had a hand in it's development and ended up buying the company.
Stying is credited to Mike Simcoe the then Styling Director at Holden.

 
 

And for those not familiar with the BMW Kruaser: 

 








 

Cobber wrote:

  Not an unusual use of house space............ A mate of mine had the spare room set up as a motorcycle workshop for his Motor Guzzis, he called it the Sheltered Workshop! 
Another mate lived in a share house with like minded mates and would ride into the lounge up over the couch of the front verandah, though the open window and down the couch inside the couches were used as ramps when not being sat on!
I knew another bloke who lived in an old weatherboard house, (timber clad timber frame) who did his MG TC restoration in the back bedroom........he carried in the chassis and all the parts separately and assembled it inside (nice and warm during winter) and when the car was finished, he cut the outside wall away with a chainsaw in order to drive the car out as it wouldn't fit through the single doorway! 
Though none of these set ups looked as swish as that, they were all a bit rough and ready!

Nice , reminds me a bit of the 2003 Jensen S-V8 

Another mate kept his rare BMW K100 Kruaser on display in the living room when not riding it, 
And there was a bloke in Sydney who had his brand new Elfin MS8 Streamliner craned up to his penthouse apartment to be an used as an artwork.
and another in Sydney who had his old F5000 race car mounted to the extremely reinforced wall, that one looked fantastic!

For those of you who don't know what an Elfin Strearmliner is:

 

An Aussie built sportscar that was avialible in both Clubman (blue) and Sreamliner (gold) versions powered by a Gen3 5.7 alloy Chev V8
Someone who most of you will remember, Tom Walkinshaw had a hand in it's development and ended up buying the company.
Stying is credited to Mike Simcoe the then Styling Director at Holden.

 

And for those not familiar with the BMW Kruaser: 

 


Nice , reminds me a bit of the 2003 Jensen S-V8  

 

Which rivnuts (or nutserts where i come from) do you use, aluminium or the zinc coated ones.

The annoying plastic fixings are the ones in the square holes, which necessitate a larger nutsert.

It all depends on the type of nutcert gun you have, if you only have one of those single handed offset handle types, they're only really any good for alloy an you can't squeeze the handles with enough power to use on steel or stainless. If you have the two handed large compound type then you can do steel ones and if you have a pneumatic powered type then you should be able to manage stainless.

You have to run what you brung!

I have the two handled type and use the steel ones most of the time.

i use ally ones in plastic

If I need to put a nutsert into plastic, as when replacing the square nylon warts, I use epoxy resin & stick the buggers in. Trying to expand them is courting disaster.
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I started the old thing today!
After an amount of “YagadagadagaCoughcoughpop” off it went.
I tried the other day & it remained dormant, today I found a feed wire in a state of unemployment. Put back to work & success.
M

What have you done to your MG today?
Technically nothing mechanical.
Practically, I’ve been on an administrative endurance rally so I can eventually plug the thing in.

Picked up an MG S5 EV recently and I absolutely love it. Genuinely great car — quiet, quick, RWD, comfortable, good tech, and I’m constantly looking for excuses to drive it.
The only downside so far has been the charger saga.
Back in late November I ordered a home EV charger, assuming the process would be:

Buy charger → book install → drill hole → job done.

Instead, it turned into a box set.
First I was told I needed a smart meter to get a charger.
A smart meter install was booked, then cancelled on the day with no warning. Later I was told I didn’t actually need a smart meter after all. Then I bought the charger anyway.

The charger installation was then booked and cancelled because I apparently needed an isolator. The isolator was booked for 30th January.Fast forward to late December: the smart meter finally gets installed anyway, and the engineer casually says “Oh, you need an isolator?” and fits it there and then. So the isolator that had its own appointment a month later just appeared, out of sequence, like a side quest auto-completing itself

Meanwhile E.ON said they were waiting on the DNO. The DNO said they’d approved everything weeks earlier. E.ON said they hadn’t heard from the DNO. The DNO replied again with dates, references, MPAN numbers and more evidence than a court case.Eventually an installation date was booked. Success.

That date was then cancelled on the morning of the install because the engineer was ill (fair enough, that happens).
As a goodwill gesture I was promised £50 back, which somehow resulted in the system thinking I’d been refunded £100, deciding I therefore owed £50, then emailing me asking for £150. This was later followed by a very apologetic human explaining they’d forgotten to type a minus sign and confirming I owed £0.

So, what have I done to my MG today?

1. Driven it and enjoyed it.
2. Learnt far more about UK electricity infrastructure than I ever planned.
3. Nearly paid imaginary money.
4. Still mostly charging on public chargers.

Despite all of that, the MG S5 EV itself has been absolutely spot on and I’d buy it again without hesitation. Assuming the charger finally goes in tomorrow, I’ll be able to charge it at home instead of treating the coffee shop like a pit stop.If not, I suspect there’s a sequel in the works.
...And you thought a TF could be a pain in the backside 

Decided to treat the tf to a good interior clean prior to it's m.o.t.
Seats out of the driver side..all good then went to do the passenger side and..the flipping door handle snapped off 😳 
This car is really fighting me. 🙄 

They do fight quite a lot, but that's why we love them surely.