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

This is clever, I shall use this in the future!

Not looked in to it but off the top of my head, will the engine and gearbox physically fit? How much does the lot weigh? Will that upset the weight balance of the car?

Also finding a decent engine that does not benefit from a rebuild. The 2zze is the same block so should just fit in without any issues. The wiring 'should' be all the same and the ecu should be plug and play.

The swap should be quite straight forward, a day or two once the engine and box have been sourced.

Awesome. I'd love to see this built. Got anything else that you're constructing that I could make cooing noises at?

BAC Mono police car for TT.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/152556589111

^ *adds to watch list*

@diable wtf is that shit?

Nothing, have sort of stopped buying cars as nothing has jumped out at me.

http://bringatrailer.com/listing/1985-toyota-mr2-4/ Loved mymk1 and think that this would be the ultimate MK1.

Spotted both of these very different cars this morning..

Frank Costin = Mar"cos"

Lovely car. Saw one at silvestone a couple of years ago. Kent wngine, no?

Frank Costin = "Cos"worth?
edit: actually Mark Costin, his brother.

Always thought the Marcos looked like a knock off Stingray...

Which Marcos? The C2 Corvette? Whatever I'm not seeing it...

God even looking it up makes me want to hurl.

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As for that ass.

Prob similar to Theresa May.

My ass project...

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the wheel arches are the real failures.

they make awesome racing cars, though. the really early v6 jobbies are hrs eligible, too, apparently.

Still not seeing the Corvette thing. And Marcoses have looked like that since before the Stingray.

There are usually a couple in the historic races.

My pal ran a 90s one in the British GTs that will soon become eligible and he's planning a triumphant return. It never completed a race back then so I doubt it will now, his 911 managed 4 laps of a 2hr race at Spa on the weekend.

I never said they look like corvettes...

It never completed a race back then so I doubt it will now, his 911 managed 4 laps of a 2hr race at Spa on the weekend.

Ran out of petrol or exploded? Something in-between?

Captain Scarlett?

No. Wait. The animal?

#passportsticker

Engine let go. Apparently a big 'ting' followed by a scary rattle. They started it again briefly in the pits, sounds like a valve or rocker issue to me.

I dropped a valve into a cylinder once, it made something of a mess.

When I say I, it was a combination of my driving and an Italian engineer, plus the FIAT factory, and likely a string of previous owners.