From Mexie ... to MXSE ...

bear2230 · Postby **bear2230** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 10:05 pm

Hi Kev,

Ive been tempted a bit lately by this little gem.
http://www.carsales.com.au/dealer/detai ... 280/?Cr=12

Have a look at this intake box for all the inspiration you will ever need.

Im working on a SP air box replacement with a similar design.

Richard.

KevGoat · Postby **KevGoat** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 10:20 pm

Yeah ... but they just hid their rough edges with rubber strips :mrgreen:

Postby **Okibi** » Fri Jan 29, 2016 12:05 am

I was going to put my fasteners along the top but they look heaps better on the side! Excellent work.

Now you have rivnuts you could try what I did and place 3 along the back of the airbox for the relays.

speed · Postby **speed** » Fri Jan 29, 2016 8:28 am

Nice work kevgoat!

I also like the box Richard shared. Somehow that transparent panel adds appeal.

Roadrunner · Postby **Roadrunner** » Fri Jan 29, 2016 8:47 am

Looks great! That's how the Begi kit should have been done from the start.
Also just learn't what a rivnut is, what an awesome little device!

KevGoat · Postby **KevGoat** » Fri Jan 29, 2016 8:50 am

Thanks guys. Yeah that clear panel is interesting. Wouldn't mind what it's attached to either .....

Okibi, I realised I'd missed a chance to do something with those relays after I'd fitted it all back in

I'm sure there'll be things that will crop up that I need to fix/adjust with what I've done, so I'll fix those then.

I considered both ways of attaching the lid, but thought the side would look better. I also thought about just making a flat lid, which would have been a lot easier - and was another part of the reasoning for leaving the lip (in case my bending and shaping didn't work out!). But I wanted to make it look how I felt it should have been made in the first place. I've read old posts by BEGi where they mentioned that they use to have a removable lid, but they had problems with rattling. I didn't really believe that. I think it was more an ease of production decision for them. This lid fitment is solid as and I'm hoping I've left just enough clearance around the edges for any movement. At worst, I might just have to bend it back a little...I'm still amazed I didn't completely stuff it up at some stage and have to start all over again...!! :mrgreen:

Actually, when fitting the filter in, I did think I'd mucked up! I didn't realise just how tight the filter sits to the top and sides of the box and two of the nuts I'd fitted were only just ok for fitment!! It's actually quite hard to estimate while it's all out of the car.

Lokiel · Postby **Lokiel** » Fri Jan 29, 2016 2:11 pm

Okibi wrote:I was going to put my fasteners along the top but they look heaps better on the side! Excellent work.

Now you have rivnuts you could try what I did and place 3 along the back of the airbox for the relays.

Hmm, all that sounds familiar

rascal · Postby **rascal** » Fri Jan 29, 2016 3:03 pm

bear2230 wrote:Ive been tempted a bit lately by this little gem.
http://www.carsales.com.au/dealer/detai ... 280/?Cr=12
.

You don't have to pay that much for one...
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Lewmar-Ancho ... SwFqJWoWye

bear2230 · Postby **bear2230** » Fri Jan 29, 2016 3:29 pm

^^^ That's funny man.

bruce · Postby **bruce** » Fri Jan 29, 2016 3:44 pm

A flat lid would make getting a piece of perspex cut easier...

ManiacLachy · Postby **ManiacLachy** » Mon Feb 29, 2016 11:55 am

Hey Kev, where'd all your photos go?

KevGoat · Postby **KevGoat** » Mon Feb 29, 2016 12:08 pm

Ah damn!! Not again! ... and they're all gone! Just had a quick look around and even my photos on other threads have gone! I don't have much luck with my photos (usually from something I've stuffed up). But no idea what's happened this time, will have to do some checking when I get home.

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KevGoat · Postby **KevGoat** » Mon Feb 29, 2016 5:59 pm

Got home from looking after the grandkids for the day (both too sick to go to school) and have had some time to look into what's happened. I have ended up with no online stored photos at all!! Appears part my fault, mostly not (in my view anyway!)

I use Picasa on my laptop and for backing up online. Have done pretty much since it started over 10 years ago. Picasa has always had a nice, simple desktop application with a very efficient and easy to use cloud sync to Picasa Web. If I modify a photo on my laptop or any device, or via the website (also via any device through my Picasa account) it automatically syncs them all. It's been great and to date I haven't ever found anything else that matches it's basic (but functional) editing, nice layout, user simplicity and all round efficiency.

A few weeks ago I received notification that Google, in their infinite wisdom, would be shutting down Picasa on 15th March 2016 and that all further usage would be via Google Photos. I found out that this was all automatic, as apparently (and completely unknown to me) all Picasa photos had been visible via a Google Photos account for quite a while. I had no idea that this mirror account even existed and I had never set one up. Google apparently automatically opened these Google Photos accounts to match all the Picasa accounts a long time ago! Unknown to me, and probably millions of other Picasa Web users, there was a whole other set of my photos being stored online in an account I had no idea existed!! I also found out by (ironically) Googling the shutdown, that if anyone didn't want to use this sneakily set up Google Photos account, that Google would be arranging a website where previously uploaded Picasa photos could be viewed (but no longer edited or anything).

So, information in hand, I went and looked at this Google Photos account - and it was absolute crap! Can't edit photos, can't view photo details, can't do anything! And the layout of the site is awful!! Talk about a massive backwards step! I also found that all the photos stored in Google Photos have different URL's to those stored in Picasa, making this account useless for anything linked to the Picasa photos (such as here). So I decided I was not going to be using Google Photos at all, and I'd delete the photos from that account and just leave them stored in Picasa Web. I'd then look around for somewhere else online to backup all my photos to ...

... and that all seemed fine ..... until now! I now know I should have read a whole lot deeper into the "fine" print of Google Photos! ... Because, unknown to me until Maniac posted here today and I received the email notifying me of the post (I haven't looked at my thread for a few weeks), when I deleted all the copies that were stored in the Google Photos account - an account that, don't forget, I had never opened or uploaded to, and that even had different URL's - it also automatically deleted all the photos stored on the Picasa website!!!! WTF???? I'd unknowingly deleted all my online photos from two accounts in one go!! What a dumbass idea!! Google effectively made it impossible to not use Google Photos, without not using Picasa!

Bit of a long winded and probably confusing explanation, but sums up my (not really) stuff up!!!!

Not in any sort of mood to start thinking about how to fix it right now, way too pi$$ed off!!!!! :evil:

Think I'll grab a Shiraz and go enjoy that out on the deck instead ....

ManiacLachy · Postby **ManiacLachy** » Mon Feb 29, 2016 6:21 pm

That is quite sh*t. I use Picasa for my photos on the desktop, I use photobucket for sharing (didn't know could share from Picasa). I've even been teaching my girlfriend's mum to use Picasa so store organise and edit photos.

I only happened to notice the pictures because of a search I did lead to this thread. Thanks for the heads up about Picasa and Google photos.