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A mate at work has a 2000 AU XR8. On the drivers side rocker cover there is a little plaque with '70 NG LAM' in cursive writing. Is this normal? What does it mean?
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a small silver plate with etched writing?? doesnt that signify the builder that built the engine by hand??
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| XH5LWEPN |
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Yep thats the name of the Tickford engine builder. You'll find it doesnt actually say '70 NG LAM' it's actually a blokes name
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Oh ok, and all AU XR8s have this then? It's nothing special?
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XH5LWEPN wrote: Yep thats the name of the Tickford engine builder. You'll find it doesnt actually say '70 NG LAM' it's actually a blokes name
Might be a vietnamese engine builder LOL.
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Scaffy wrote: Oh ok, and all AU XR8s have this then? It's nothing special?
The 200kw, 220kw and 250kw ones had them. All hand builft by Tickford Engineering.
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| Scaffy |
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cool as. Cheers. He'll be disappointed it's nothing special then. Haha
Jeff, will let you know about the eec tomorrow as well. Got to run!
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Scaffy wrote: Jeff, will let you know about the eec tomorrow as well. Got to run!
No worries mate, too easy.
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| Disco Frank |
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i was going to say this but teh OP says rocker cover
iirc the plate was on the intake manifold?
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It's Tong Lam, its on the rocker cover, and it's a handbuilt motor
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Disco Frank wrote: i was going to say this but teh OP says rocker cover
iirc the plate was on the intake manifold? Hmm?? Me no understand??
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D GARIGLIO BANDULA H BILL MARKOV AJITH FRANCIS AJ LINDARA SAM DOYLE A ARETSINIS W.MARSICANO N Busuttil Steve Berry Shane Dunbar Jimmy Katsaros Rob Gooch these are all the ones that AUfalcon know about and my new car has another name on it "Hoey" so i sent in the details to them to put it on the list.
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Scaffy wrote: Oh ok, and all AU XR8s have this then? It's nothing special? I don't think anyone should be dis-appointed if their car came of the assembly line with a hand built motor.
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twason wrote: Scaffy wrote: Oh ok, and all AU XR8s have this then? It's nothing special? I don't think anyone should be dis-appointed if their car came of the assembly line with a hand built motor.If you pulled apart some of these 'hand built' engines and had a look inside you'd not be impressed by what you see... They may be hand built but they're not meticulously blueprinted or assembled. IMO they should have been put together a lot better.
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| Disco Frank |
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XH5LWEPN wrote: Disco Frank wrote: i was going to say this but teh OP says rocker cover iirc the plate was on the intake manifold? Hmm?? Me no understand?? i was saying i thought it would be the engine build plate but the Original Post says it was on the rocker cover when i though the plate was on the intake manifold
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