Yeah, I've never seen a crash like this where there is literally no front end.

With a E36, a 323i, you knew that the engine size was...

A 2.4.

I hit them and now have two schoolboys and a bike lying across my bonnet.

Hello and welcome back to the Car Throttle podcast where Ethan Jack and I read out your emails, act as your automotive agony uncles and discuss unpopular opinions.

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Ethan and Jack, what have you guys been up to? And we're going to start with Jack.

Thank you. I actually got round to starting my turbo build on my MX5.

Oh, finally.

Well, as I started, I put a new engine in it recently, and Edwin, actually, from the

social team, helped me do that.

And when I did that, and I was putting new seals and stuff, and I realized I sort of

just threw it together, didn't really talk anything up,

sort of just hand-tight bolts. And so most of my weekend was going through and making sure

everything was sound so that I'm not pranging out about it when I'm trying to tell about it.

Just correcting previous Jack's mistakes. Yeah, yeah, past Jack was an idiot.

Present Jack sawed it out. So how far have you got with the turbo build?

When is it going to be whipped on?

Probably another eight months maybe,

by the rate that I build cars.

Are you going to do that before you install your manifold on your E36?

The manifold that I've had for two years?

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