andrew e Posted October 18, 2011 Posted October 18, 2011 Ford V8? Ex Formula 5000? Hey Norm you know Peter is a Commie
andrew e Posted October 18, 2011 Posted October 18, 2011 Hey Norm you know Peter is a Commie I love commies then.
Mr_Bo11ox Posted October 18, 2011 Author Posted October 18, 2011 LOL! Yeah peter reckons everyone should benefit from a state healthcare system and he wants to increase taxes and spend the money on nationalising stuff.
CreepingJesus Posted October 18, 2011 Posted October 18, 2011 Norm, you can post stuff like this and your turbo, all day and all night, for evermore if you like. Pure engineering porn. Lurverly.So I take it that's an injection plenum, to take trumpets? Given that marine stuff is usually optimised to a fairly narrow revband, is this for some demon car project, or did you just get it as A Very Lovely Thing?
CreepingJesus Posted October 18, 2011 Posted October 18, 2011 I see! That makes sense, now I take into account the water inlet on the end. 'Tis a Very Nice Thing indeed.
RoadworkUK Posted October 18, 2011 Posted October 18, 2011 They are watercooled exhaust manifolds, which allow for overhead tubular pipes to be installed, on a big honking evil bastardy 454cid Chubberlylet Mercury Marine Big Block from back when dinosaurs walked the Urth and Sir Campbell ruled the Seas. Yes please. In a marina near me there's a Rinker Fiesta Vee which I know is packing a Mercruiser Magnum (502), which is utterly inappropriate for UK waterways but sounds brilliant. I doubt very much if the owner can ever afford to leave the marina.
Pete-M Posted October 18, 2011 Posted October 18, 2011 LOL! Yeah peter reckons everyone should benefit from a state healthcare system and he wants to increase taxes and spend the money on nationalising stuff. If that's what Peter wants to do, now that he's done me such a nice good turn, I'm completely in favor of socialistic and communistic pie-in-the-sky schemes. As long as my Marxist overlords bring me Cosworth, Weslake, Hemi, and Pontiac Ram Air parts, I will offer up all my civil rights and succomb to their plans.... I like the way you toe the party line, Comrade Normski! Here, have some cabbage.
Conrad D. Conelrad Posted October 19, 2011 Posted October 19, 2011 Glad they arrived safely. 13:54 Pickup17:16 Left Manchester19:37 Arrived East Midlands22:14 On plane02:58 Arrived Cincinnati08:10 Arrived Columbus West13:47 Delivered. That is seriously impressive. I can't imagine what would have happened if we'd gone for the express service. Someone should nationalise the hell out of this company ASAP.
chaseracer Posted October 19, 2011 Posted October 19, 2011 LOL! Yeah peter reckons everyone should benefit from a state healthcare system and he wants to increase taxes and spend the money on nationalising stuff. If that's what Peter wants to do, now that he's done me such a nice good turn, I'm completely in favor of socialistic and communistic pie-in-the-sky schemes. As long as my Marxist overlords bring me Cosworth, Weslake, Hemi, and Pontiac Ram Air parts, I will offer up all my civil rights and succomb to their plans....Our work here is done...
jonny69 Posted October 19, 2011 Posted October 19, 2011 They are watercooled exhaust manifolds, which allow for overhead tubular pipes to be installed, on a big honking evil bastardy 454cid Chubberlylet Mercury Marine Big Block from back when dinosaurs walked the Urth and Sir Campbell ruled the Seas.Is that the reason most marine engines have watercooled exhausts?
The Reverend Bluejeans Posted October 19, 2011 Posted October 19, 2011 Glad they arrived safely. 13:54 Pickup17:16 Left Manchester19:37 Arrived East Midlands22:14 On plane02:58 Arrived Cincinnati08:10 Arrived Columbus West13:47 Delivered. That is seriously impressive. I can't imagine what would have happened if we'd gone for the express service. Someone should nationalise the hell out of this company ASAP. DHL are very, very good. I won't piss about with anyone else - I sent some documents to the far East with Royal Fail, never seen again. Tracking number? About as much use as a kick up the arse with a pointy shoe.DHL got them there in 3 days, no messing - cost about 30 quid, but they got there. Which is what I wanted.
scaryoldcortina Posted October 19, 2011 Posted October 19, 2011 What sort of maximum weight do DHL allow? I have a huge pile of stuff here to ship to Norm, but some of it is rather heavy...
Luxobarges_Are_Us Posted October 19, 2011 Posted October 19, 2011 DHL is pretty much a public sector company. It belongs to Deutsche Post, which was only privatised in 1995 and in which the German state still holds a lot of shares. Maybe that's why it was kicked out of the lucrative domestic USA market.
Conrad D. Conelrad Posted October 19, 2011 Posted October 19, 2011 What sort of maximum weight do DHL allow? I have a huge pile of stuff here to ship to Norm, but some of it is rather heavy... 70kg for single items (max size 120x80x80 cm). They'll take up to 1,000kg on a pallet. Use a parcel broker. It cost £60 to send the manifolds through parcel2go.com, taking it to a DHL servicepoint would have been £120 for the same service.
Mr_Bo11ox Posted October 19, 2011 Author Posted October 19, 2011 My experience of DHL is that they eat hairy balls all day long, took them 2 whole weeks to deliver a box to France for me (on their 48hr express service). http://www.dhlsucks.net
jonny69 Posted October 19, 2011 Posted October 19, 2011 So my next question would be if it doesn't need a cool exhaust, why not just use iron manifolds and not bother with the cooling?
jonny69 Posted October 19, 2011 Posted October 19, 2011 Yeah, but most boat engines have cooled exhausts, even the marine versions of the Ford Crossflow which chug about at low revs and part-throttle all their life. Was trying to work out why they do it.
Mr_Bo11ox Posted October 19, 2011 Author Posted October 19, 2011 Its a relevant question, I often wondered why they have watercooled manifolds too, sadly I am unable to prodive an answer. maybe its just to avoid having a very hot thing in a fibreglass/wood environment.
scaryoldcortina Posted October 19, 2011 Posted October 19, 2011 You would expect watercooled manifolds on morgans and reliants too if that was the only reason...
DSdriver Posted October 19, 2011 Posted October 19, 2011 Yeah, but most boat engines have cooled exhausts, even the marine versions of the Ford Crossflow which chug about at low revs and part-throttle all their life. Was trying to work out why they do it.I have boat shite: 1977 grp hulled sailing boat.On my Yanmar boat engine (all 8hp of it, single cylinder diesel) the engine is sea water cooled, it comes through an inlet in the hull to the water pump which is belt driven which pumps it into the engine. It swirls round the block, comes out at the top into a hose which connects to the exhaust. The exhaust then pushes the water out the back of the boat through flexible hoses and a plastic silencer. The water cools and also quietens the exhaust.More modern engines have indirect cooling through a heat exchanger.
M'coli Posted October 19, 2011 Posted October 19, 2011 Part of the reason for the water cooling on bigger boats(I believe) is to prevent the mariners from burning themselves on the hot exhaust manifolds. This includes turbo housings to - from what I remember, this hobbles some cummins group engines of anything up to 50bhp.So what's the point of chucking that away? Easy enough to argue on dry land, but when a boat/trawler/ship is pitching back and forth and rolling up to 50 degrees each way, you don't want a hot exhaust manifold to bump into!
DSdriver Posted October 19, 2011 Posted October 19, 2011 I have learned today that Weslake manifolds are for performance powerboats, I was replying to Johnny about why they use watercooled exhausts in lower power engines. I should have also added that connecting red hot steel to a grp boat skin where the exhaust exits the boat is probably not a good idea. I was down at Poole town Quay a few years ago when the F1 powerboat racing circus descended on us. Fantastic machines, one had triple Lamborghini engines, the noise was incredible.Was the boat in your pictures red one side and blue the other or was there a time lapse involved?
Guest Posted October 20, 2011 Posted October 20, 2011 Other Cheshire based shipping services are available.* Was it something I said?
Guest Posted October 20, 2011 Posted October 20, 2011 Well, I posted my request, and Peter replied. He is quite near the chap who sold it to me. "Make no mistake" and "Let me be clear" (Obumpass figures of speech...) that I will lean on you at some point for something huge. Like pushing the plunger down on the nitroglycerine cache nestled inside the boot of a certain cross-eyed Datsun.... LOL. I didn't see that request Norm. It must have appeared on one of the days I was busy. If you'd have PM'd I would have been happy to help. Peter is very local to me - no more than six or seven miles away. Fair enough, you probably didn't know that - I don't exactly advertise my location. My social worker says I'm not allowed to play with explosives any more. I fear I may be of no use to you whatsoever in the future.
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