Recent content by Alfanuts

Did you sort out the fueling issue with your car? What it might be is fuel pressure. If you are running the weber dcoe40 carbs it may be that the fuel pressure is too high. No more than 14psi on carbs. Standard the cars were fitted with a fuel pressure regulator with an incorporated fuel...

I suppose the land rover drivers other car is a BMW 530d hey Riaan. All 530d BMW are badges 350d now in South Africa.

I recognise that flag in the lower right hand corner of your cupboard. I can only guess it came from Grizz1963, Riaan. Nice to see South africa has a spot in your garage.

Looking really good. It is difficult to tell that the beautiful city of Cape Town is just outside those doors. It will be a great place to shut out the world and relax while working on your cars.

Looking very good. I like the look of your high vaulted ceiling with no rafters in your hoist garage. Almost looks like an old carriage house with a loft for storage but the floor has been taken out. Have you sourced wooden roll up doors yet? Pity about the old man not looking after his house...

Your cheapest route would be to get a single phase motor with the same frame size and rewire the switch gear to single phase. If your hoist is hydraulic you just connect up the wires and only use two phases of your switchgear. You might have to change the coils on the contactors to 220v or...

Nice to see you back. Have a look at these pull out stairs. Maybe you can source them locally. https://www.etrailer.com/RV-Stairs-and-Steps/Stromberg-Carlson/SMFP-3100.html

Good. I see you found them.

I don't think so. All of the gearbox ratio's are the same for all the 105 models except fifth gear in the early 1300's. That was a little "shorter" 0.85 vs 0.79. Alfa Romeo changed the gearing via the diff ratio. From 5.1:1 through to 3.6:1 Your selection of the 4:1 ratio with limited slip is...

It looks like it's a little woody.

Not too sure if you read instructions or have used the rust curing stuff before. I had to throw away a litre of it once before, because I never read the instructions. You must pour the the amount you are going to use into another container if you are going to brush it on. Throw what is left in...

I can't seem to find any fully wooden roll up doors in South Africa. A couple of specialised places in the UK and America do wooden roll up doors. This Cape town based company offers aluzinc roll up doors in a meranti wood grain finish. No idea of the quality of the doors or the company...

It will not be a problem if you do not lift the car into the door. :bounce: You will loose some height for lifting the car. My roof height above my hoist is about 3.3m to the bottom of the truss and my Giulia's roof ends up about 50mm below that at full lift. An Alfetta GTV ends up about...

Could you stop mucking about with the granny auntie flat and get on with the garage? All this mission creep! :lol_hitti:lol_hitti Its great when thing start hitting the finishing phase. Looking good.