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  • Опубліковано 7 жов 2021
  • Mike and Edd work together to give this small classic sports car more power by giving the exhaust a ceramic coating and polishing the inside of the engine block.
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  • @nickpapadatos5263
    @nickpapadatos5263 2 роки тому +22

    Ant is good explains everything but I still miss Ed still watching in 2021

  • @rayfoster6980
    @rayfoster6980 2 роки тому +1

    At age 15 my dad gave me his ‘63 Alpine. A life changing event.

  • @MeetJoeBlack55
    @MeetJoeBlack55 2 роки тому +1

    I owned two Alpines when I first started driving ... hard to keep them running but found several in junkyards ... 50 years ago, great memories ... would buy Mike's blue "Alpie" in a heartbeat!!

  • @RestorationObsession
    @RestorationObsession 2 роки тому +3

    The Sunbeam sure was a little ray of sunshine!

  • @wallacegrommet3479
    @wallacegrommet3479 2 роки тому

    My 2cnd car in 1977 was a 61 Alpine, paid $100.00, bought a snap on hardtop $60.00 at Genes sport car parts on Scott rd Surrey BC.
    My Dad was dockmaster at Sterling shipyards in Vancouver,spray painted it on the decks late at night. What great memories

  • @tongalizia3175
    @tongalizia3175 Рік тому

    Lots of fun in my friends alpine,the team consisted of MGA, TR6, Fiat x1/9, and the Alpine ,,,,it’s was the best high school auto shop years….

  • @ianmangham4570
    @ianmangham4570 2 роки тому +1

    I thought the block looked like my 62 hillman minx lump, very very reliable engine and gearbox.

  • @jkbughunt
    @jkbughunt Рік тому

    hey sir , what size tires do you have on your alpine ? they look larger than 13 inch

  • @irritablearchitect
    @irritablearchitect 2 роки тому +9

    Actually, Mike, the power comes from the heat NOT being bled out of the exhaust stream, through the header material itself, thereby speeding up the gases as they exit the system, improving scavenging.

  • @frankhoward7645
    @frankhoward7645 Рік тому +1

    6:20. Not sure if you're aware, but the factory heads on all Alpines were aluminum.

  • @peterbarber7613
    @peterbarber7613 2 роки тому +1

    Good to see an engine with with a Aussie name on it

  • @cupidstunt22
    @cupidstunt22 2 роки тому

    Mike's had a lot on his plate recently

  • @ThePhotogalleria
    @ThePhotogalleria 2 роки тому +4

    Ed China is the star of the show, not sure why they have that hysterical Alan Titmarsh-lookalike in this program.

    • @mjh5437
      @mjh5437 Рік тому

      I know,can`t stand all these gushing types we have to suffer nowadays!!

  • @AF-O6
    @AF-O6 2 роки тому

    Your show is the greatest Mike! I can’t get enough of restoring cool foreign (to me) cars!

  • @freemenofengland2880
    @freemenofengland2880 Рік тому

    Pretty sure Harry Weslake pioneered gas-flowing and porting heads, but that was long after the little Alpine was first built.

  • @Splagnate
    @Splagnate 2 роки тому +1

    Francisco, first name I think of when thinking British workmanship

  • @rudolfabelin383
    @rudolfabelin383 2 роки тому

    4:46 This guy has a larger compressor than I have.

  • @carsandstuff365
    @carsandstuff365 9 місяців тому +1

    It’s all about the mk1 tiger with the rounded cornered doors boot and bonnet .. don’t like the mk5 1a squared doors

  • @pjs9346
    @pjs9346 Рік тому

    V-8 is Shelby

  • @davidsnyder2000
    @davidsnyder2000 Рік тому +1

    Want Ed China back on Wheeler Dealers😞

  • @m1t2a1
    @m1t2a1 2 роки тому +1

    Max wants his car back. Who sprayed it? If a shoe rings, don't answer.
    The model is famous for Get Smart.

  • @odibaracatibaro1255
    @odibaracatibaro1255 2 роки тому +4

    I love wheeler dealers but Mike talk too much

  • @gianicasarini2060
    @gianicasarini2060 2 роки тому +1

    Good morning W/D again cars gas CO2 wood urgency

    • @calibrazxr750
      @calibrazxr750 2 роки тому +1

      There is no wood urgency, we just have to cut down some trees and we will have all the wood we need. There is still plenty of rain forest that needs trimming back.

  • @RustyShackleford66
    @RustyShackleford66 2 роки тому +1

    859K vs 289K. Need I say more?

    • @calibrazxr750
      @calibrazxr750 2 роки тому

      Now add on the tv viewing figures and what do you get?

    • @RustyShackleford66
      @RustyShackleford66 2 роки тому

      @@calibrazxr750 Has Ed got a tv program?

    • @EvrainBrandigan
      @EvrainBrandigan 2 роки тому

      @@calibrazxr750 an ailing TV programme versus a mechanic who's on the Guinness World Record.

    • @calibrazxr750
      @calibrazxr750 2 роки тому

      @@RustyShackleford66 and there it is.

    • @calibrazxr750
      @calibrazxr750 2 роки тому

      @@EvrainBrandigan who says that it is ailing? It is still going strongly enough for a television company to feel it is a worthwhile investment.

  • @Yasinbaba07
    @Yasinbaba07 2 роки тому

    Goca herif arabası

  • @Markustajahoyrylaiva
    @Markustajahoyrylaiva 2 роки тому +10

    Mike!!!!!!!!!!!!! stop cashing in on Edd's success, he is not working for WD anymore, stop publishing videos with him on youtube, this is revolting behavior

    • @calibrazxr750
      @calibrazxr750 2 роки тому +3

      Edd is in the videos, but other people own the rights to them. It is essentially a direct consequence of the contract that Edd himself willingly signed.

    • @turquoisecat761
      @turquoisecat761 2 роки тому

      I like Edd too, but the show is bigger than even him.

    • @bield7
      @bield7 2 роки тому +2

      @@turquoisecat761 - and a lot worse without him

  • @sidewaysaction9983
    @sidewaysaction9983 2 роки тому +2

    An idiot's guide to porting. Should all be exactly the same in volume and matched to gaskets and manifolds otherwise a total waste of time.

    • @calibrazxr750
      @calibrazxr750 2 роки тому

      Ah, the armchair, internet expert, what would a comments section be without one. Probably more enjoyable, but we will almost certainly never find out.

    • @nkelly.9
      @nkelly.9 2 роки тому

      @@calibrazxr750 Says you who is not sitting in an armchair.
      Care to refute sideways action's contention rather than take pot shots?
      Didn't think so, because you can't and he/she's right.

    • @calibrazxr750
      @calibrazxr750 2 роки тому

      @@nkelly.9 So you ask me if I wish or intend to do something, before, whilst not giving me any chance to respond, assuming that I cannot. Do you have any understanding of just how stupid that makes you look? He/she is not right, any polishing and porting will improve performance, doing what he/she said simply maximises any possible benefits, but not doing it is certainly not a total waste of time. Furthermore, we do not know if this was or was not done, since more was done to the car and engine than is shown in the video. So basically we have but one main conclusion, which is that your level of professional outrage is significantly higher than your intellect. But then again, my goldfish's level of professional outrage is higher than your intellect, so that is not really a surprise.

    • @nkelly.9
      @nkelly.9 2 роки тому

      @@calibrazxr750 Thanks for that Brains.
      Your comment is like the half arsed porting job central to these comments. Doing it defeats the purpose of doing it.

    • @calibrazxr750
      @calibrazxr750 2 роки тому

      @@nkelly.9 um okay. Could I have that again in a language that we both understand? Unfortunately I don't speak idiot.

  • @Schlipperschlopper
    @Schlipperschlopper 2 роки тому +1

    Sadly from 2030 on all combustion cars including classics will be banned
    from public streets in entire EU and Scandinavia :-( In Germany the
    Green Peoples Party gave order to shorten fuel supply from 2025 on by
    reducing all conventional fuel stations to only one state operated
    central gas station per city or county. Now they even want to slow down
    all the gas pumps from 20 litre per minute to 2 litre per minute...From
    2027 on in the EU certain car spare parts will be banned too....as
    exhaust systems, turbo chargers and even some engine and gearbox
    oils...California and New York will do the same from 2027 on.... So no
    investments should be done in oil burning cars any longer....They even
    created a new kind of crime here, called emissions and smoke crime. "Bundesabgasbespaßungsverbot" in German. :-//(((

    • @stanthology
      @stanthology 2 роки тому +3

      Greta will have to find something else to rant about. What a crock of shit.green Commies don't care how many industries they wreck.

    • @Schlipperschlopper
      @Schlipperschlopper 2 роки тому +2

      @@stanthology Biggest problem is not Greta (she is only a sad puppet), in fact it is China behind all that shit, PRC dictates the end of use of all combustion cars worldwide. Chinas boss Darth Xi told all politicians that they wont do any business with underdeveloped countries that still allow CO2 emitting traffic, airplanes or combustion based industry after 2030...I am sure USA and UK also will be forced by China to 100% electric traffic because today no industrialized country can afford sanctions by China.... China just rules the world...:-(((

    • @thomasmulhall4873
      @thomasmulhall4873 2 роки тому

      @@Schlipperschlopper
      Illuminati rules China.

    • @jkbughunt
      @jkbughunt Рік тому +1

      unworkable virtue signaling , it will all fall apart

  • @stavm1909
    @stavm1909 10 місяців тому

    Alot of |"americanisms" creeping in to their speech "Swap it out" Squish " and many others