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

Quite a difference in price between £800 and £4500 for rebuilt race going mx-5?

the difference between a race car and an MOT failure with coilovers and a roll hoop, i'd imagine.

How many dinero's for an MX-5 sized trailer?

just get some plates made up with nursey's numbers on them and drive to the circuit. BANG!

MOT booked, a little bit of additional work booked for the same time, 350 bhp and a years ticket should be the result.

i booked mine this morning, too. it's going to be risky. 65 bhp should be the result...

My mechanic said "it's going to be pretty aggressive", I felt a bit embarrassed at the Clarksonesque nature of that, then got over it.

great little vid on stats for a sprintcar, haven't been to watch them in ages. love the smell of methanol.

http://youtu.be/xWpxAU_-Yo8

http://www.sportscardigest.com/1963-12-hours-of-sebring-race-profile/?awt_l=PMCUM&awt_m=JYBOq3y74us.C0

a great read and some cool photos.

here we see the greatest car in the world of all time ever...

...closing in on the most valuable

:)

Anyone need/want a turbo?

Mitsubishi TD04 16T with the angled/3" exhaust flange.

£100 of your finest pounds.

how much will it cost to put it on my car?

all this talk of cheap MX5's, and I'm flogging mine (just decided to this moment). bit tidier than those ones up there, I'd be happy with a grand..

original ad (i bought it for £1200 last year)
http://www.mx5nutz.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=102705&hl=

how much will it cost to put it on my car?

I would imagine "quite a lot" is the answer.

Want to go halves on the MX-5?

Sell me the cage on the cheap. Cheers.

I think we'll need that to lower Richie in

Mate's epic Mini made it on to Speedhunters's "I am the speedhunter"

how much will it cost to put it on my car?

A bit of Googling shows that an O-series engine as used in the Montego/Maestro Turbo bolts up to your gearbox.

The Montego/Maestro used a blow-through carb, so no intercooler to try to fit in as the fuel cools the charge, and no wiring, and all the manifolds/gaskets and so on actually exist- which is handy.

I'm not sure whether my 16T would not be too large for your 1.8L engine- it's fine on my 2.3, indeed it chokes the top end as it's a bit small in reality- but the flipside of that is that it spools very fast.

You're welcome to try it- although I suspect that installing an O-series (or, from further Googling, a 16 valve turbo charged M-series) would probably come after a V8 on your list of priorities.

Came across this - http://forums.t5d5.org/topic/18116-melted-a-piston-new-setup-coming-in-je-forged-pistons-pte-6262-bb/
I'll probably interest Neil if he hasn't seen it already.

Size isn't everything. I know a couple of people running 16Ts on 899cc engines. Then again, they're Fireblade bike engines running in cars, so possibly not that similar to BRM's.

I'm going to guess that they rev a bit higher than an MGB I4.

5.5k rpm is enough for any man. Hehe.

899cc Fireblades rev to 12,500rpm as standard, IIRC. My racer goes to 13,750 (Yamaha R1 5VY). Makes a lovely noise. Particularly when the exhaust can fell off during my out lap at Silverstone...

My valvetrain would be a cloud of rapidly accelerating shrapnel at those speeds.

7,500 is the sensible limit, at which point there is a fairly significant amount of weight flying around.

Exhaust turbine stays the same, inducer gets slightly bigger:

think brm needs one of these! now drop-top.

thats how you out gay an mx5.