Ecorra Sport V8 [pics]

[EmDee]

A what?

It's a Tatra. The Ecorra Sport V8 is a Czech car based on the Tatra 700 (which let's face it was basically a 613) Oh, and they have air cooled quad cam V8s in the boot.

Here are some poorly translated specs for you:

Specifications

DIMENSIONS
length 5105 mm
width 2000 mm
height 1180 mm
wheelbase 2980 mm
track width front / rear 1650/1655 mm
weight 1150 kg

MOTOR
gasoline, air cooled over the rear axle
Number of cylinders / arrangement 8 / V 90 °
Displacement 4423 cm3
Bore / Stroke 95/78
compression ratio 10.7
Torque 480 Nm (400 PS)
performance 294 kW (400 PS)

GEARBOX
sequential 6-speed

BODY
cantilever with a reinforcing frame, two-door, two-seat, surface parts - AL, Kevlar, composite materials

TYRES
front 245/645 to 18
back 305/660 to 18

PERFORMANCE
maximum speed 320 km / h
acceleration from 0 to 100 km / h - 4sec
1 km standing start - 22.2sec

Have some pictures.
























Shonky video time!

[WillCarter]

That's fairly serious.

[ettorebugatti]

That's a looker!

[dbizzle]

Wow! I love it when I learn about a car I previously had absolutely no awareness of. Nice one. ;D

[knobstar]

Apr 12, 2013 17:00:18 GMT dbizzle said:

Wow! I love it when I learn about a car I previously had absolutely no awareness of. Nice one. ;D

Ditto that - what a fab discovery! Sounds lovely to boot

[Del]

OOF! Nurse!

[EmDee]

Thanks Gang! Glad you like it, I'd been meaning to post it for ages. I found out about it a year ago and was going to paste some wiki stuff with it, but it's not even on Wikipedia! Anyway I got busy and didn't think of it again until today when I saw that Moskvich C1.

Anyway, have a few pics of a nice Tatra 700 GT










Also, while we're on about fairly recent Tatra V8s, it would be rude not to have some Tatra MTX V8 luvvin.

Wikipedia actually knows about this one!

The MTX Tatra V8 was a super-sports car made by MTX in cooperation with Tatra in 1991. It was designed by the legendary Czech automobile designer Václav Král and was the fastest Czech car of all time. Under the hood lies a V8 with 225 kW (306 PS; 302 hp), 6700 rpm, it has scissor doors opening vertically up and pop-up headlamps. Acceleration from 0 to 100 km/h is given as 5.6 seconds and the maximum speed reaches 265 km/h. Only five Tatra MTX V8s were ever built. A black one you can see in the sports car museum in Lány, a red one has a Czech private owner, others are in Germany and Italy and a fifth was reportedly delivered as a kit to the USA. In 2010 the car appeared in the Kanye West film Runaway.

[unitybonez]

Veru intresting. Is it a competing DTM car?
The stocker looks well diffrent, but i can see quite the potential in that one too. The Curse word the looks the better i like them lately
MTX has some NSX and some saleen clues, but looks like a complete no frills experience. Interiors from here look like those of a model car LOL

[kingcally0]

black one looks like calibra dtm.

[bortaf]

Was NOT expecting that ! OOF

This just looks so strange ! ;D
but then i've never owned a beetle

[usedabused]

An air cooled v8 you say?


[glow=red,2,300]I like it![/glow]



And reverse engineered and copied by Ford for some reason..

[buzby]

Apr 12, 2013 18:51:13 GMT unitybonez said:

Veru intresting. Is it a competing DTM car?

In it's original form (the pictures with the red bodywork) it was built in 1986 on a shortened and lowered T-700 chassis with low drag bodywork by the Ecorra coachbuilding company for Tatra for a successful attempt at the Czech Land Speed Record (320km/h, 0-100km/h in 3 seconds):

www.ecorra.com/en/galerie/preview.php?id_gal=30

After that, it was retired to Tatra's technical museum until 2000, when the Tatra 603 Team (brothers Stanislav, Zdenek and Jaromir Hajdušková, who were already well-known in the Czech Republic for their exploits racing Tatras) managed to persuade Tatra to sell the rolling chassis to them for use in the Czech domestic racing series. It was fitted with a race-modified 4.5L Tatra 613 engine that makes 400bhp

It also has a custom made 6-speed sequential gearbox built into a standard T613 gearbox casing. The bodywork has evolved during it's racing career into the black, wide-arched DTM-style seen in the later pictures.

The Tatra 603 Team is so-named as they started out racing Tatra 603s. They were invited over to the Goodwood Revival in 2010 and 2012, and brought one of their 'historic'-spec 603s to race:




Unfortunately, the economic conditions last year severely curtailed their racing programme, so both the 603 and Ecorra V8 Sport only made a handful of appearances at the circuits between them.
translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=cs&u=http://www.tatra603team.cz/&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dtatra%2B603%2Bteam%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1052%26bih%3D611&sa=X&ei=wgRrUaHmFZSk0AXi9IHIAQ&ved=0CDIQ7gEwAA

[TurboDieselWeasel]

That's the air-coolest thing I've seen this year!

[Speedman]

Apr 12, 2013 16:42:28 GMT EmDee said:

1996 Calibra DTM, seperated at birth?


;D

[unitybonez]

Wow, that old 603 has got some pipes
I'd love to hear the quad cam air cooled v8 in real life.

[jrevillug]

Those pipes are the cooling system, to replace the twin belt-driven fans shown on one of the engines earlier in the thread, freeing up vital horsepower.

When moving, the megaphone shape combined with the partial vacuum behind the car draw air through the engine's cooling fins. When stationary, the engine's exhaust pipes - which are directed into the narrow end - draw air through.

I understand that that particular 603's cooling system is a replica of one used in period racing, with only photographs of the original having survived.

[garethj]

Nice!

I don't believe the Tatra 603 engine was reverse engineered by Ford, that looks more like an engine being tuned up in a Ford garage. That one's from a car, you can see the two twin barrel carbs on it. The one that's photographed in parts is from a T805 truck, it's only got a single twin carb on it.

The Tatra engines sound great even when standard but with fruity exhausts they sound really special, my 613 had free flowing silencers and was great when you open the taps, my 603 had standard exhausts and it was the noise from the fans that dominated once the revs rise.

[HoTWire]

I'm bumping this so EmDee puts in his new photos of this amazing beastie!

[EmDee]

As you wish Boss.

Went a bit mad taking these, lots turned out badly so I just kept taking them  



















































Also looking back at this thread I recognise some of the surroundings...



^ This (not my pic - it's from a post above) Was clearly also taken at the Tatra museum in Kopřivnice.

You can see the same plinth here;



With this on it










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[cianha]