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

brm and then i started looking up carver one............ half an hour later.

Top Gear - The Carver - YouTube

3:28 no one standing behind was amused. also, he needs to tuck his shirt in.

I'm guessing the steering wheel in that ^^^ is normal sized and the car itself is about the size of a shoe?

They are very small, that's part of the appeal to me.

you won't be able to hear the engine due to your knees being up in your ears.

It seems like nice E30's are getting more expensive every time I look, what alternatives are there? Been looking at Merc w201, more auto than manual but still a few out there

What other options are there for 80s/90s box-pervs?

E30 touring. I made some posts a few pages back about old E30's. They're not as bad to keep on the road as people think. They ain't cheap, but if you're a bit handy you won't have to bend over and prepare for penetration.

I think you could probably buy four Merc 190 Cosworths for the price of an RS2.
I was thinking more Saab 900 classic, Volvo 240, Volvo 850 T5, W124, E28, Lancia Delta (non-Integrale), Mk2 Golf.

One day I'll have a 'Grale. First purchase on my glorious return to the UK will be and RS2. Still quicker to 30mph than a McLaren F1.

any got any experience with megajolt?

you won't be able to hear the engine due to your knees being up in your ears.

Have a look at the front- there's masses of leg-room due to the only the gearbox and steering rack being in the tip of the nose, the engine is hanging out the front:

My Grandad had a very, very similar three wheel sports car that he built himself, mainly (according to my grandma) in the kitchen of their home in Lyndhurst.

I think I'm going to have to build one myself.

One of these was parked outside my house the other day, I think it is super-awesome, I will build myself one at some point: http://www.pembleton.co.uk/

Chap I knew had one of these. He cheated, bought it completed for around £3K.

First purchase on my glorious return to the UK will be and RS2. Still quicker to 30mph than a McLaren F1.

Deffo needs this

Audi RS2 crazy acceleration - YouTube

I want one badly too.

Decent, unmolested ones are still around £15k though.

Exactly, and I've seen a few modded ones and every owner to a man, seemed a bit genuinely unhinged...

Deffo needs this

Audi RS2 crazy acceleration - YouTube

I want one badly too.

7 years on and still one of my favourite YouTube videos.

any got any experience with megajolt?

No but how hard could it be, right?

As in I'm offering to help if you require it.

any got any experience with megajolt?

My brother has used it in the past, moved on to better things since. What info are you after?

I have to consider ignition options for the new engine. I have a recurved aldon dizzy with lumenition. i could get it recurved, or a 123 Tune (which is tuneable from a laptop), but they essentially only give a 1D curve. apparently, there is a fair bit of part-throttle power to be found with a weber and mappable ignition so i was exploring options.

of course, the internet seems to be full of people signing it's praises (as you do when you have spunked a load of cash on something), but i wanted to get a view of someone that has done it themselves and how hard it was to get it going.

obvs there will a starting curve and a rolling road involved, but i am quite interested in having a crack at it myself.

ETA - and the possibility of someone that has done it before giving me a hand for tea/booze/heroin, natch :)

oh, and NH - i may take you up on that.

any got any experience with megajolt?

Yes, and Megasquirt. Megajolt with EDIS is about as straightforward as mappable ignition goes. Fit throttle pot, fit trigger wheel and VR sensor, provide power and off you go. In fact, the hardest thing on the last Megajolt installation I helped (hindered) with was getting the USB-only laptop to talk to the Megajolt ECU using a USB>serial converter.

A friend of mine runs Trigger Wheels, and sells Megajolts and associated hardware. Let me know if you'd like an introduction...

dan, that would be amazing. that was the guy my interweb investigations led me to. he appears to have a kit for a b, which looks to have everything. it seems pretty straight forward. i have a qu or two about the trigger wheel.

see, it was worth asking!

Talking to him now. He thinks you'd be good to fine a forum where people have used it for that engine previously. There is the Megasquirt forum which might help but something more specific will help you more.

"the EDIS based setups can be reliable enough and give decent gains, road mapping will get you a fair way along but really for ignition it needs RR tuning"

yeah, a rr for sure. there is a wealth of starting maps, too, by the looks of things.

the winningest option at the moment, is to put the new lump in with the dizzy/su set up to run in, then switch to the weber/megajolt an rr it properly.

thanks dudes.

dan, that would be amazing. that was the guy my interweb investigations led me to. he appears to have a kit for a b, which looks to have everything. it seems pretty straight forward. i have a qu or two about the trigger wheel.

Right, have sent ChrispyG an e-mail asking if he'd be willing to provide As to your Qs...

if anyone is interested, i am up to £1,200 on bits, with 300 to come for the machine work, 600 for the head and prob another 1k for the exhaust/weber/megajolt. i picked up a new manifold today for 50.

i'd REALLY like 106 at the wheels to have one more than that red alfa ^^^up there.

i know! one hundred and six tyre shredding brake ponies! look out!

If I built one those little kit cars I'd have around 20 bhp I suspect.

Right, have sent ChrispyG an e-mail asking if he'd be willing to provide As to your Qs...

good work - thanks
i would be buying from him, too.

^^ Not if you went for the Moto Guzzi V-twin option (and surely you would, rather than the 2CV flat twin?) which would provide you with at least 50bhp. Which in a car like that would be more than adequate, I'd imagine. After all, the Morgan 3-wheeler only has 80bhp, and that's a porky 525kg.