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This thread started with trying to fit an AC compressor at the front of the engine into the engine compartment. Do you need the AC due to heating up while stationary, or do you need it on the road/track? If the latter, what portion of time is spent mobile vs stuck at traffic lights/ sitting on...

Two things Jack. With modern electronics, it would be quite possible for Mr Inspector to walk around any apartment block passageway and detect and direction find operating receivers and tuners. They would then have the benefit of a computer access to the license database via a small laptop and...

In Australia, we cannot register a new car with a SBF anymore, regardless of whether or not it could be made to meet emision standards. Engines used must have been have been available in a showroom production car meeting Aust Design Rules within 3 years prior to date of attempted registration...

Pete, It's not really that bad cos you lost 5 million in the above lines.When I looked there were only 16 of us reading 40's jokes so the rest must be working.

Hello, and welcome to the forum. I have been keen to build a 40 for about 10 years, but it is getting very hard in Australia to build a car that is an accurate replica as the government keeps changing the rules on us. For example, we cannot register a new car using the small block Ford engine...

Common practice with most non EFI cars is that the battery positive lead runs to the starter solenoid main power stud, and the loom picks up off that. As alternator outputs increase, the alt output cable is often directed back to the positive terminal directly, with an included fusible link...

Travelling home from work a couple of years ago, I was approaching an intersection which I knew had an active speed/ red light combo camera, as I had observed it snapping away on way to work in the morning. There is another light controlled intersection about 80m past the camera equipted one...

Gee David, thats cruel. In Vic Australia we get an allowance of 3% + 3km/h with a standing limit of 100kph, variables down to 40 kph. Thats $135 for 44 in a variable 40 zone or 106 in a 100 zone. Best part is that Australian Design rules require speed indicating instrument accuraccy better...

Just googled Intercontinental Hotel Sydney and got the following link. InterContinental Hotels & Resorts | SYDNEY | Hotel Overview opyright notice at bottom of page includes 2008, so I presume the site has been updated recently.

One of the highly regarded rod shops in Aus managed to road register a 55 Chev Bel Air with a Merlin power plant a few years ago. The Castlemaine Rod Shop Latest Projects An former aeromodelling aquaintance who is an engine rebuilder has had a Merlin in a glass case in his living room for...

Our Qantas. Poor kid was either on a flight the day after the Bangkok episode, or on the flight and the message worked. The Bangkok episode? During the week, they landed a Jumbo at Bangkok on battery power after loosing ALL normal elec systems because of a fault 30 minutes out. Spin doctors...

Hello Paolo, Yesterday, it reached 43 deg C at about 4pm yesterday in the Eastern Suburbs of Melbourne, about 35Km from Port Phillip Bay. Minimum overnight was 35 deg C at about 4am, and maximum today was 42 deg again with hot/strong Northerly wind (from inland Au). Cool change at about 1.30 pm...

Single bid at opening price, Reserve not met.

RF #4 is listed on ebay in OZ. Starting price AU$70,000, Reserve not met. Set up for track, so possibly not previously road registered. Anyone have knowledge of this car? GT40 Roaring Forties Chassis No4 - eBay Post-1970, Collector Cars, Cars, Cars, Bikes, Boats. (end time 09-Jan-08 17:58:54...

However, this approach leaves a high current capable live wire running direct to to the Alternator. Hopefully the builder has included a fusible link in the cable to provide some degree of current limit, but certainly would not qualify for track isolation requirements.

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My flight was being served by an obviously gay flight attendant, who seemed to put everyone in a good mood as he served us food and drinks. As the plane prepared to descend, he came swishing down the aisle and told us "Captain Marvey has asked me to announce that he'll be landing this big...

A young executive was leaving the office late one evening when he found the CEO standing in front of a shredder with a piece of paper in his hand. "Listen," said the CEO, "this is a very sensitive and important document here, and my secretary has gone for the night. Can you make this thing...

A priest, a Pentecostal preacher, and a rabbi all served as chaplains to the students of Northern Michigan University in Marquette. They would get together two or three times a week for coffee and to talk shop. One day, someone made the comment that preaching to people isn't really all that...

Consumer GPS systems normally work in 2 dimensions only. They work by determining position repeatedly and calculating change in position divided by time interval. If you are climbing or decending a slope, or going around a corner, they will read lower than your actual speed as you will be...