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Tim.. World Chat Champion
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Posted: 13:31 - 25 Jun 2011 Post subject: V8 coffee table - Finished |
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Wasn't sure which topic to put this in so feel free to move this thread mods.
Have always wanted the engine block table that they have on Top Gear and the other month after a related discussion at work my calibration engineer said his old man had one lying around in the garden. I said how much, his said 'dunno, 20 quid?'. Result!!
A few days later he brought it to work.
After a long time on the media blaster, the block was cleaned up, measured, marked, drilled and tapped. After some fettling the pistons were level enough to mount the glass.
The pistons and rods were then blasted and everything brought home for painting.
Pictures to follow shortly and everything will make sense . ____________________ Project builds: My VFR400 nc30 build thread + Honda Britain Rep VFR + What? Another VFR +Project 'cos I want one' + V8 coffee table
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want thats going to be awesome ____________________ aprilia 125 Af1 Futura >> Suzuki gsxr 600 srad >> J1 zx6r >> cbr 600rr >> Speed Triple |
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Wow, not a bad table for £20 so far! ____________________ Theory test - 19/8/09, CBT - 11/10/09, MOD 1 - 16/8/10, MOD 2 - 27/10/10
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Posted: 15:29 - 25 Jun 2011 Post subject: |
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Use all 8 pistons & rods - it'd be rude not to! |
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Definitely think it looks good, but just feel a v8 should have 8 pistons on show. I'd be very happy if I could make something like that ____________________ Past: Honda x8rs, Honda City fly, Honda Hornet 250, Honda VFR750, Yamaha xt600e.
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https://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w269/teflons-torque/tear/13650006.jpg
This very nearly bacame a coffee table.....
It had lived inside a Range Rover, until the ex missus killed it! So I took it out to 'Do the Heads'....
https://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w269/teflons-torque/tear/13670013.jpg
The rocker covers were a bit 'Scabby'
https://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w269/teflons-torque/072_B_001_Tear/13660026.jpg
I had the thunk, that a V8 is a bit 'Special' so ought to LOOK a bit special, especially since I was spending an awful lot of money reconditioning it's insides.... Becouse at this point, 'doing the Cylinder Heads' had become doing a complete engine overhaul, and I was a bit 'stuck' while the block was at the M/C shop being bored and the crank ground and 'stuff'... so I decided the rocker covers ought to be polished.... then I decided they still looked crap, so I'd paint them.... but that ribbing ought to be blocked out..... and THEN I got a bit 'carried away'!
https://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w269/teflons-torque/072_B_001_Tear/13680006.jpg
And painted the sump pan... and inlet manifold... and since the carb overhaul kit arrived before the engine block was 'done'... I did the carb bodies!
https://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w269/teflons-torque/tear/13680005.jpg
Only trouble was, the more bits I 'Did' the more it showed up the bits I HADN'T done.... so I ended up colour matching the fan, the distributor cap, every bludy thing!
Apart from the dip stick and oil filler... which I painted BRIGHT YELLOW... in the hope that the idiot woman MIGHT actually be able to find them and check the oil....
https://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w269/teflons-torque/tear/13680070.jpg
Looked so stunning by the time I was done, I REALLY didn't want to stick it back under the bonnet of a Range Rover!
Blogged, I actually had a bloke offer to buy it to stick in a Hot-rod, where it would have been seen.... but in the end.... wound up hidden away back under the bonnet of the Blue Rangie it came out of.....
https://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w269/teflons-torque/tear/13680076.jpg
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Posted: 17:15 - 25 Jun 2011 Post subject: Re: V8 coffee table |
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Tim.. wrote: | Have always wanted the engine block table that they have on Top Gear |
Of course, that's the undominable Buic 213 sub-small block alloy V8 you have coffee tabled, like the 3.5 lump that was in my old Rangie.
The Top Gear V8 Coffee table, is I believe a Porshe 928 block.
If you remember, in one of the Top Gear Challenges, the three were set the task of buying a Porshe for under £2K or something, and then had to do whatever to them...... Hamster bought a 924, I think, cant remember what Cpt Slow bought, The curley one bought a 928, and pipped them with the final challenge, selling the thing to recoup costs... and he sold his as 'spares'.....
Aparently he'd had the idea from buying the coffee table in the first place and taking to the chap that made 'Designer' Auto-Furniture..... ____________________ My Webby'Tef's-tQ, loads of stuff about my bikes, my Land-Rovers, and the stuff I do with them!
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make sure you get rounded corners and bevelled edges on the glass. ____________________ Turbocharged drag thing / project death weapon / GK73A
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Posted: 18:45 - 25 Jun 2011 Post subject: |
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Top gear coffee table is a Jaguar V12.
https://www.record-designs.co.uk/
Doesn't use the pistons either. ____________________ CG 125 > Bandit 600 > CBR 600 FY > Street Triple R |
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Posted: 18:56 - 25 Jun 2011 Post subject: |
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Would loooove to make up one of these tables myself too.
My son's a bigger petrol-head that I am (studying automotive and aeronautical engineering ATM), so I'm sure I could recruit his help too ____________________ 1st bike (Sept'06 - May'10) : 1991 GPZ500S / Current bike (since Nov 2009) : 2003 Suzuki Bandit 600N
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Posted: 19:43 - 25 Jun 2011 Post subject: |
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Good inspiration mate, might have to crack on with my half size V4 night stand using an old VFR lump ____________________ '84 TS50X, '91 TZR125, '89 CBR400RR, '91 VFR400R NC30, '98 R1
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Posted: 00:25 - 26 Jun 2011 Post subject: |
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I was going to try and get one that had dropped a valve or cracked a head, then cut it in half so you could see the valves and pistons working
Also the VFR has a very useful way of mounting the glass top, which I think you already know about, but PM me if you want me to share with you ____________________ '84 TS50X, '91 TZR125, '89 CBR400RR, '91 VFR400R NC30, '98 R1
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Dunno where you are in the country Tim, but if you're even vaguely near north London these guys can make absolutely anything you can imagine out of glass - https://www.instrumentglasses.com/
They're one of those little family type businesses based in some run down looking 1930s factory units, no job's too small and they're not expensive.
Maybe a photo of your bike etched into the glass, or a bike shaped glass top? ____________________ They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa, hey-hey,
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 12 years, 306 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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