Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

So no comment on the Lotus twink... have just (in the past two weeks) finished rebuilding a crossflow block, ex unused racing block so everything is clean. Bored out with crossflow/precross flow pistons and special (ish as they are quite easy to get hold of) with a big valve pre cross flow head fitted with twin webers, a lotus elan air box and air filter, and makes more bhp than a lotus, and only 175cc more.

Id imagine that spec makes 150bhp depending on how lairy the cam is?

For a twink to be competitive it needs to make over 190bhp and there are only a few folk in Europe who are trusted to reliably build that sort of thing and because some of the race cars that need them are worth £££,£££ then they can get away with charging ££,£££.

If I were doing it again I'd do a 1500 pre xflow fo sho.

Or a G12 with a BRM V8. If someone will lend me a bazillion pounds.

Very TCR.

Who wants to buy my Porsche then?
http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/porsche/boxster-986-96-04/2004-porsche-boxster-s-550-anniversary/6029781?v=c

Not bad, but you failed to start the ad with "here we have..."

Looks quite nice and a better interior than most 996's

No. Genuine Porsche :-)

I presume that makes them wipe faster, right?

Cobbs Quay?

Tuscan looks like a nice one. 'S' spec by the looks of the front splitter too. Whats the details on your Elise?

Ah lotus racing engines are something different.

Hopefully a little more with lots of torque, so far it has an elan gearbox. Lots of stuff from a racing lotus cortina, well the front shock and hubs and 19 or 21mm antiroll bar. Which will make the car interesting... It also has a strut brace as I know how flimsy the front end is.

There is someone I know selling a mk1 cortina precrossflow racing car for 60k.

Edit: No idea what page I thought I was on but the topic has clearly moved along since then...

Yes! Arrrr hate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfd9np0f6Rw

haha, rep

and sorry @BQ - not my cup of tea. glws dude

That looks absolutely badass, bit harsh on the old bum though, no?

Porsches have 3 wiper speeds (4 if you count intermittent) no other car goes fast enough to need the third speed.

Why would this have had a new clutch at 78,000 miles?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Immaculate-Porsche-997-911-Carrera-3-8S-2-S-manual-/222196077818?hash=item33bbeb14fa:g:PmwAAOSwtnpXk3HC

Is it a dual mass clutch? Issues with the release bearing? Some people slip the clutch a bit too much

Guess who bought a car (hyper super boring diesel estate) on Sunday, Insured it for 14 days taxed it and had someone drive in to it with such force that the rear wheel is 25 degrees off the straight?

That's a decent life on a clutch isn't it? They're often gone by around 50-60k on a 911, sometimes much less if a city car.

Nice. I'd recommend getting the TRD air box and cam switch edu reflash if you haven't already. Airbox sounds great but not too noisy whilst the ref lash lowers the cam switch point to 5,700rpm making it easier to get it on cam and stay there. Could also go for the bolt on SC kit if you fancied making it even more manic!

That's about right for a 911. My Boxster had a new one at 68000 miles, which was one of the main reasons I bought that particular car.

I bought my Volvo on 134,000 and the clutch was FUBAR'd, it could have done with changing at 120,000 I think. I was under the impression that that was the approximate lifespan of these things, but of course a one size fits all approach is probably impossible.

I know what you mean but I thought it made the car a lot easier to drive when you were picking up the pace on the road. Wind a normal one up in 2nd & 3rd to keep it above cam change point and you're short shifting through the rest of the box! It gets very addictive though.

When I had my k series S2 I fitted a 2bular exhaust, beautifully made things