Do you mean the engine mount on the crossmember? I might have a good used one I’ll need to check in my dad’s shed ! If all else fails, and when I was stuck for one, we ‘repaired’ an old one and it’s still good and in use on my racer. The wear and weakpoint is usually where the rubber is bonded to th...

Forgot to add, before using millers I used Castrol gear oil, syntrax I think it was called which was good stuff, but the millers is even better so it’s worth it. I the gear change was a marked step up again over castrol going to millers.

I use the millers, expensive but excellent. Mines a 1200ti std box but in my racer so it’s running hard and hot when in use. Doubt you’d need to change it for a good few years so worth it.

Same for me re land Rover, never . Lou - what made you eliminate the 5 series, did you try one or just in general. Only merc I had was a hire car for a month, e220 amg when a 5 series I had was being repaired. To be fair the 5 was a 535 but the almost new e class wasn’t a patch in my near 10 year ol...

Choose a 5 series before a 3 series, the 5 is a really nice thing to drive and be in. Mercs- no thanks. Jag XE = Ford Mondeo Kia stinger just a bit funny looking. Mustang….nooooo Alfa stelvio nice, QV defo, Tonali not sure. Don’t mind the Volvos but if it’s not a stelvio then I’d have the Skoda out ...

If you have budget for a 1 or 2 year old giulia turbo then it’s a no brainier to use the same money for a 3 or 4 year old QV. No contest , just get the QV !

Hi Lou No Giulia experience (dreaming about a QV, but that’s all it will be), only Giulietta which might be pre Stellantis? It’s a 2013 1.4 petrol turbo, owned from 20k and now done 68k. No issues at all really, just servicing and a couple of niggles, door handle broke (more user abuse than design i...

Bump, see first post at the top……

Bump again, new std 84mm boxer dished pistons and rings, on good clean used rods. Still £200

Updated first page and added a price

Last few, promise……my dad found this in his loft, I completed it by sending off for the last few sticker needed. Who remembers Figurine Panini sticker books ? Clearly a ‘sign’ of things to come that I stuck an Alfa badge over the O for Auto on the front cover…………..or it was simply because it was rou...

And finally, up to current time and oh my word, yes please…………

Poor quality pic, but another for Lou.

Let’s head to the end of the next decade, Car and Car Conversion February 1989 (£1.30)

Now for a huge leap into Motor Sport November 1976 !

One for our Kev from same mag as above

Found some old mags I bought a long time ago off eBay.

First pics are from Motor Sport mag December 1974 (25p) !! Click on pics and they should rotate.

One for Lou to start

Try here. https://www.enginepartsuk.net/

Some pics of flooding on their f@ckedupbook page, but last year was garbage with lots of complaints. It took an hour to go round, we thought we’d missed some of the halls it was that small, but it really was terrible. Main hall at the entrance, and a tiny hall at the side. Largest indoor space was t...

Hi Dave, warm and wet they were ok, warm and dry as good as a Fiat 500 needed. But cold and wet/damp not great.

To be fair Michelin pilot sport can be twitchy in cold and damp.

I noticed a marked improvement in ride and road noise when I put the yoko’s on as well as grip

I wouldn’t based on what you can get here for £40 upwards. Fitting extra bot kumho at 40, yoko, uniroyal etc. The Chinese stuff on my daughter’s Fiat 500 was fine in warm dry weather, poor in cold and damp. It’s got Yokohama now. https://www.camskill.co.uk/m4b0s386p0/Car_Tyres_-_MPV_Tyres_-_People_C...

Hi Kev Yes it is Rodger’s old car, now owned by a chap appropriately called Mario (the current seller). I last saw it at Brunswick when I went down for a bit of maintenance. The engine alone would be close to asking price today if paying to have one built, but at most you’d get the engine and box bu...

Hi James. Sometimes you have to hold out and a buyer turns up. The economy won’t be helping. Plus personally some things are just over priced so it’s hard to compare. The other aspect is you have a bit of a hybrid car, it isn’t a fully fledged road car and nor is it race ready. Leaves you in the mid...

Forgot to say you need to fit the full outboard suspension arms etc if it’s inboard currently.

Do you mean the full strut with shocker insert ?

Yes , you might need to match the top mounts and shocker bush. My sprint has 33 struts.

I think it needs to be donations and not membership or ads, the latter adds cost and complexity in their own right. Somewhere above £10 per annum is mentioned, doesn’t seem a lot I haven’t donated before, more thru forgetting until it comes up. £20 per annum, or even a pound a week by recurring tran...

I’ve got a spare ticket for the above, gets you entry on both days.

Anyone wants it send me a private message with your email and I’ll email it over.

I need to know by Friday about 6pm latest otherwise I’ll miss your message.

Hello megs, yes I have some sud nos panels still and pistons still, sent you a private message you reply to if you want to chat. Thanks

Hi, I bought from the same company, I couldn’t remember their name until you posted it. U.K. engine parts. It was the address I remembered. I think have a set of used Nord shells machined down in the garage, I’ll check. If I can find them and you get stuck with finding genuine boxer shells I could s...

The small print in this eBay ad suggest these are oversize. Don’t worry if ads state 1.4 and such like as the rod bearings are the same on all boxer engine sizes. Description doesn’t say Alfa so maybe do a part number cross check. Stick to Mahle, king etc brands https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1959416295...