Spanish Gang Arrested For Turning Old Toyotas Into Ferraris
shailynn
They never tell you what you need to know.
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2017/02/14/S…
Well two ways I can comment:
1. Hey Juice, I found a new car for you!!!!
2. Now SJG's dream of pulling up to Hong Kong in Tijuana in an exotic car can come true!
Well two ways I can comment:
1. Hey Juice, I found a new car for you!!!!
2. Now SJG's dream of pulling up to Hong Kong in Tijuana in an exotic car can come true!
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Because you continue to defy her, she is increasing the rehearsals of the West Texas Christian Glee Club to 3 evenings per week. And she will be driving you there, in her mini-van, personally.
These are those 3rd gen Toyota Supras, 3.0L inline 6, DOHC, 4 valves per cylinder. I read about one guy turbo charging it to 430hp. Anyway, those Toyota's are nice.
SJG
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OTOH, these fakie dos have common engines, trannies, etc. and even "serious" issues are cheaper than the body panels and badges, so you don't need an expert to make a reasonable purchase. If you like fakes.
SJG - go fucking kill yourself faggot
SJG
Yea I remember seeing one decades ago where I used to work.
And of course the 356 Porsche kits are still loved, and then making V8 Ferrari Daytona's, and also Shelby Daytona's
And then always the Shelby Cobra's.
:)
SJG
SJG
SJG
There are lots of more interesting kits on the market, rear mid engine transverse and longitudinal, and the front engine ones.
What the kit car market has still not done a good job with is in taking the engines from the newer cars which have complex computerized management, like even electronically controlled variable valve timing, and making kits using them. And of course getting all the electronics to work, with the wiring harnesses, is part of the challenge.
Before Rockstar you posted about getting that high power experience, but at lower speed. I understand what you mean, having a car with sensible engine displacement means you can use high throttle and high rpm and at sensible speeds. This is good.
And then about carburation versus fuel injection. You spoke about 4 carbs. I thought about your lotus. I suspect it has its four carbs, maybe horizontal, and probably with no real intake manifold.
So of course this makes it drive differently than a car with a long manifold. And fuel injected cars are intended for daily drive, and so they are intended to give good power at lower RPM, so they have fairly long manifolds.
With fuel injection, it can be made to put in whatever amount of fuel is called for, within some limits. But with those four carbs with no manifold, the amount of high RPM air which can go in is so much higher. This is what makes the difference.
Then, some continuous feed fuel injection systems place valve timing restrictions, so that fuel is not hitting exhaust, or getting spit back up.
The timed or sequential systems work better, and yield higher HP per liter.
And then the direct or high pressure systems, forcing fuel directly into the combustion chamber under compression, work even better, like 100hp per liter naturally aspirated. Consider that Scion Subaru FRS, 200hp, 2 liters, and at sensible RPM.
And them some Porshe's now have telescoping intake manifolds, and some extreme cars have two intake systems, one small and long, and one short and large.
So, these challenges are being met.
Lots of people have bought huge engine cars, I think they just like the idea that it can move about with very low RPM. Guy had me drive his V8 MBZ back from the airport. Very hard to get that over 1100 RPM. Really need to have room in front, and then floor it.
But making a car like this, just for effect, and when it won't be driven at insane speeds, is wasteful.
Also, lots of Americans have not been used to shifting gears. They put their car into top gear ( used to be 3rd ) at 25 mph. So then on freeway ramps and hills they don't down shift, and they feel that they should not have to.
People used to smaller engines and higher rpm's know better.
One good thing is that most of the new cars are getting more automatic trans gears, and a wider range. I think this is the effect of the hybrid electrics, as these simulate infinite gears.
Most people had been accustomed to the car having its top speed in top gear. So say, 6000 rpm for 120mph. But then for 60mph , 3000 rpm.
People are starting to see that if you want real good gas mileage, you need a higher gear, higher than what the vehicle could make maximum speed with.
So there is progress, as I see it.
And most of the makes now have really steered down their engine sizes, often using turbos or direct high pressure injection to get power with the smaller engines.
SJG
The Euro versions used Webers which are far superior, but finding a Weber head is almost impossible these days and they cost $$$$ if you do. Some people have bodged up adapters.
Most 4 cylinder inlines use 1, 3, 4, 2 firing order, or the same thing in reverse.
So if you have two carbs, like 1 and 2, and the other for 3 and 4, there will be savaging.
Where I have seen this is in TR4's. And they have these equalizer tubes, and those don't really work.
So if you were to do it, you could have 1 and 4, connected to a long tube manifold which gets a distance away from the engine. Then you could have the other connected to 2 and 3, and by a manifold which stays close, buts somehow loops the tubes.
This would be analogus the the old high low manifolds which work on some V8's to use a 4 bbl carb and make it so front and rear of one head, plus the two middles off the other, use two of the bbls, a primary and secondary. And then the opposite, though raised up a bit, on the other side.
This is about the only way I can see that you could make two carbs work on inline 4.
They could be two bbl progressives also.
Otherwise need just one carb, or 4 carbs.
Inline 6 is usually not a problem, one carb, 2 carbs, 3 carbs, 6 carbs. Usually the firing order lets this work. Consider Datsun 240Z. And then doubled for a 12 cylinder Ferrari, could be 1, 2, 4, 6, or 12.
SJG