Project Marmite, Official Thread
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El Taco said:Ewazix said:20p coin - Any odd numbered polygon will work, same principle as the Wankle engine, bloody clever really 8)
ElTaco old bean, having seen the evidence you can now safely join in the modd'ing fun and change your road wheels to this shape, all will be smooth and dandy
Odd numbered would be right. Not a hexagon. But if you think that's an autocorrect with Brad that is fine. Good that some of you can count.
Nice graphic of the polygon. The original tease was about the nature of a chord and also the ability to count. Wasted here
I know we shouldn't feed the trolls, but "nature of a chord". Error? or another of your incredibly witty and subtle teases :yawn:
(The whole point of Brad's explanation about the sill, the 20p analogy and the graphic is the use of a constant curve to intersect points on a circle, not a chord which in trigonometry is a very specifically a straight line).
Anyway back on topic, as I said at the start of Brad's adventure I don't really like modded cars and only chipped in to support the project because I admired Brad's tenacity to do something different despite the bad luck and kicking he was getting. If the end result is the automotive equivalent of Frankenstein's monster, plastic surgery that's gone wrong or or a really bad tranny at least Brad will have something that people can't help staring at
One year 4 months later and this car is still causing a riot. Good times. I am almost finished with the road testing portion of the car build, having clocked up close to 600miles in a relatively short space of time I can safely say the car is ready to be painted with no worries about cracking, body fractures or safety issues.
I will bring the car back into it's garage home and begin work on the prep pieces for paint, i'm going to be adding a load of carbon doohickeys to the car, for that time attack/ GT racer 'look' i'm also going to be performing a secondary CAT delete at some point aswell as I don't need those
... I also found a load of 'weights' that were bolted onto the underside of the car which BMW attach to the regular exhaust set up and removed all of those which came to around 7kg in total... easy weight removal for ALL BMW cars if you ever need to, they're supposed to stop vibrations and such on the exhaust but frankly they don't do anything except weight your car down... trust me, just take a 19mm hex key (be careful might be hept <--- don't let El Taco catch me out again) and unscrew it from your exhaust system and see how heavy those suckers are! OMG!
Updates soon!
I will bring the car back into it's garage home and begin work on the prep pieces for paint, i'm going to be adding a load of carbon doohickeys to the car, for that time attack/ GT racer 'look' i'm also going to be performing a secondary CAT delete at some point aswell as I don't need those
... I also found a load of 'weights' that were bolted onto the underside of the car which BMW attach to the regular exhaust set up and removed all of those which came to around 7kg in total... easy weight removal for ALL BMW cars if you ever need to, they're supposed to stop vibrations and such on the exhaust but frankly they don't do anything except weight your car down... trust me, just take a 19mm hex key (be careful might be hept <--- don't let El Taco catch me out again) and unscrew it from your exhaust system and see how heavy those suckers are! OMG!Updates soon!
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bradmarsh1989 said:One year 4 months later and this car is still causing a riot. Good times. I am almost finished with the road testing portion of the car build, having clocked up close to 600miles in a relatively short space of time I can safely say the car is ready to be painted with no worries about cracking, body fractures or safety issues.
I will bring the car back into it's garage home and begin work on the prep pieces for paint, i'm going to be adding a load of carbon doohickeys to the car, for that time attack/ GT racer 'look' i'm also going to be performing a secondary CAT delete at some point aswell as I don't need those
Updates soon!
Yes, keep it going.
It's been emotional.
Working down in Poole today as my company had a site down there. Nipped out for lunch and to pop to a car dealer to have a look around for my new company car, parked up then spotted a very familiar car in front of me.
Didn't know you lived down here Brad.
Small world
Dan
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Didn't know you lived down here Brad.
Small world
Dan
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Danderton said:
Yup! Born and bred in Poole, I work as the digital marketing manager for Nissan/Toyota here. Thanks for spotting the car
Does anyone wanna get me out of this mess? I can't turn around and there's a queue of traffic going back 2 miles because of my poor navigational choices.
The latest Project marmite (sub project)
Audi R8 style wing mirrors with flashing LED indicators... as you all know I bought some crappy wing mirrors off ebay so it would pass MOT because it needed indicators in the wing mirrors, the ebay ones were terrible and ill fitting so I've gone down the route of putting LED's into the stock wing mirrors. FYI an easy mod if anyone else wants to do the same!!
Each LED has the same brightness (visually, not mathmatically for all you internets professionals out theres!) of a 25 watt bulb and I have 12 in each wing mirror, so you do the math!
Audi R8 style wing mirrors with flashing LED indicators... as you all know I bought some crappy wing mirrors off ebay so it would pass MOT because it needed indicators in the wing mirrors, the ebay ones were terrible and ill fitting so I've gone down the route of putting LED's into the stock wing mirrors. FYI an easy mod if anyone else wants to do the same!!
Each LED has the same brightness (visually, not mathmatically for all you internets professionals out theres!) of a 25 watt bulb and I have 12 in each wing mirror, so you do the math!
lux said:Each one cant be as bright as a 25w bulb unless each LED is around 5 watts which is impossible as the heat sink for that lot would be bigger than the wing mirror. (lighting professional here :wink: Lux = a unit of light measurement)
Like the look though Brad
I meant figuratively, like they are bloody bright!
Fitted the OEM lights back onto my car and got rid of the GOD AWFUL chrome ones which got me through the MOT... such a relief! Now with LED indictaors Audi R8 style
bradmarsh1989 said:Fitted the OEM lights back onto my car and got rid of the GOD AWFUL chrome ones which got me through the MOT... such a relief! Now with LED indictaors Audi R8 style
Wow, I had to take a 2nd look then, I thought it was an Audi R8 for a minute
sp3ctre said:bradmarsh1989 said:Fitted the OEM lights back onto my car and got rid of the GOD AWFUL chrome ones which got me through the MOT... such a relief! Now with LED indictaors Audi R8 style
Wow, I had to take a 2nd look then, I thought it was an Audi R8 for a minute
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