what be this beauty and how do i get it in my life

[Russell]

[Blown_Imp]

lancia 037, supercharged mid mounted 2L twin cam, built for the group B rules.

To get one in your life, simply sell your arms, legs, and both kidneys.

So very beautiful

J

[Blown_Imp]

I personally would like to get this in my life -



But no number of body parts will achieve this, so ill just have to make one

J

[Hirst]

I love the 037, I just hate the pain of knowing I will never, ever, ever own one.

That ECV is pretty great though, reminds me of the Charade 926R! Did they ever run it in the end?

[Blown_Imp]

its was fully tested and ready to go when group S got cancelled







ECV 2 -



Triflow engine -

[Blown_Imp]

926r was so very cool, mainly because it had the same engine as my charade!









Hows about a d3t widebody?







Hhnnnnnnnggggg!

Sorry about the monsterous thread hijack

J

[vicsmith]

To get an 037 you`d need to get a Lancia Montecarlo and make the odd adjustment here and there, perhaps a bit of paint...

[lebowski]

Yeah, the Lancia Montecarlo is almost as cool and affordable.

[vicsmith]

Herbie got off with a montecarlo in "herbie goes to montecarlo". All sorts of dodgy implications as herbie was about 20 years old while the Lancia was brand new......

[lebowski]

Here's another picture of a slightly meated up Montecarlo.

[Hirst]

That's yours? Superb!!

Edit: No, hold on

[Speedman]

037's are









;D

[Snoozin]

037 is one of my favourite cars of all time.

[Jenn]

Wow I didn't know they could fly as well as look like sex on wheels? Clever stuff. Lottery don't fail me now.

[surprisingskoda]

blownimp said:

Triflow engine -

is that how triflow dental care works?

explain group S? what was that for?

[Hirst]

Group S was going to be the replacement to Group B with super low homologation limits and 300hp limit, so there'd be some wild cars made. Unfortunately got canned!

[Blown_Imp]

group S was going to be the sucsessor

quote -

Group S rules would have limited car engine power to 300 hp (225 kW). To encourage innovative designs, only ten examples of a car would have been required for homologation, rather than the 200 required for Group B. By the time of its cancellation, at least two Group S prototypes had been built: The Lancia ECV and the Toyota MR2, and new cars were also planned by both Audi (the 002 Quattro) and Ford (a Group S development of the RS200). The cancellation of Group S angered many rally insiders who considered the new specification to be safer than Group B and more exciting than Group A.

The Group S concept was revived by the FIA in 1997 as the World Rally Car specification which, as of 2006, is still in use. WRC cars are limited to 300 hp and require 20 examples of a model but, unlike Group S, are required to share certain parts with production cars.

Group S was to be a class which would allow manufacturers to produce highly futuristic cars, and only ten copies would be required for homologation.

Looked ace, shame really as i would have loved to see cars like that

Only thing is I'm unsure of the 300bhp limit, as the triflow engine made over 700!
It owuld apprea that the turbochargers on the triflow engine were sequential, the flow to one being restricted at lower rpm making the other spool up earlier.

J

[lebowski]

It looks like the turbo's on the triflow engine each take the exhaust gasses from one exhaust valve (of two) per cylinder rather than it be a sequential setup (correct me if I'm wrong, I'm only going by the diagram).

[Blown_Imp]

The tri flow engine has one exhaust and one inlet on each cam per cylinder, the exhaust flow from the left hand side of the engine is restricted by the valve seen after the turbo. This stops the flow and forces it through the other turbo, there is also a valve on the outlet of the left hand turbo to stop the flow bypassing the engine and flowing backward out of the non boosting turbo. I'm guessing that at a certain boost level the second turbo comes online and provides flow for the top end?

J

[lebowski]

Ah yes, it looks like you're right.